Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German pastor, theologian, spy, anti-Nazi dissident, and key founding member of the Confessing Church.

His writings on Christianity’s role in the secular world have become widely influential, and his book The Cost of Discipleship has become a modern classic.

Apart from his theological writings, Bonhoeffer was known for his staunch resistance to Nazi dictatorship, including vocal opposition to Hitler’s euthanasia program and genocidal persecution of the Jews.

Date of birth:
4th February, 1906
Date of death:
9th April, 1945
"The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy."
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Topic(s): Hope
"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children."
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Topic(s): Society
"Politics are not the task of a Christian."
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Topic(s): Politics
"One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons."
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Topic(s): Religion
"It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own."
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Topic(s): Nature
"God’s truth judges created things out of love, and Satan’s truth judges them out of envy and hatred."
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Topic(s): God
"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children."
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Topic(s): Society

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