Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
9 quotes
"Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)"
"This was one of the casualties of war, that trust itself seemed to die a thousand deaths."
"With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made "legal." Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other powers besides itself."
"It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity."
"Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God's word, but testify to it. Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer"
"Bonhoeffer thought of death as the last station on the road to freedom."
"(Bonhoeffer's) change was not an ungainly, embarrassing leap from which he would have to retreat slightly when he gained more maturity and perspective. It was by all accounts a deepening consistent with what had gone before."
"There was only one reality, and Christ was Lord over all of it, or none."
"They (theological liberals)seemed to know what the answer was supposed to be and weren’t much concerned with how to get there. They knew only that whatever answers the Fundamentalists came up with must be wrong."