Dietrich Bonhoeffer Church Quotations

The Church is the Church only when it exists for others.

It is the task of youth not to reshape the church, but rather to listen to the word of God.

The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind

The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.

The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.

The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.

The church ... is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.

Whenever the Psalter is abandoned, an incomparable treasure is lost to the Christian church. With its recovery will come unexpected power.

Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.

The Church is the Church only when it exists for others...not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.