Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes - Page 2

Not in the flight of ideas, but only in action is freedom. Make up your mind and come out into the tempest of the living.

Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.

It is only when he is a burden that another person is really a brother and not merely an object to be manipulated

Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ's sake. Therefore, human love seeks direct contact with the other person; it loves him not as a free person but as one whom it binds to itself. It wants to gain, to capture by every means; it uses force. It desires to be irresistible, to rule.

Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.