Dietrich Bonhoeffer

No human being builds the church, but Christ alone. Anyone who proposes to build the church is certainly on the way to destroying it, because it will turn out to be a temple of idolatry, though the builder does not intend that or know it.—Sermon, Berlin, July 23, 1933

When will the time come that Christianity speaks the right word at the right hour?

There are only two possibilities when a human being confronts Jesus: the human being must either die or kill Jesus.

One cannot simply *read* the Bible like other books. One must be prepared genuinely to query it. Only thus does it reveal itself.

The New Testament is not a mythological dressing up of a universal truth, but this mythology (resurrection and so forth) is the thing itself!

Worth a read, especially today.

Excellent.

Thankful for Barry’s comments here.

Check this out: @life_isolation is slowly working through DB’s Life Together in a tweet/discussion format. Good things to think through during pandemic social distancing. Follow the account and follow along!

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Consolation and confrontation must be continually made in their proper relation to law and gospel.

People do not mind being sick or bogged down with problems or even weak—but under no conditions do they want to be sinners.

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

“Human beings are easily swayed and enraptured; peer pressure and crowd behavior are powerful forces.”

The church is the presence of God in the world. Really in the world, really in the presence of God.

Jesus knows about the preachers of the national religion, who enjoy greatness and renown, who are rooted in the culture of the people and molded by the spirit of the age. Yet it's not they, but the disciples who are called blessed—theirs is the kingdom of heaven. @bonhoefferdaily

You should thank God that your church has the Gospel.

Faith is dependent not on dead letters, but on the living Lord.