Dietrich Bonhoeffer Helping Quotations

[God says] Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend - it must transcend all comprehension. Plunge into the deep waters beyond your own comprehension, and I will help you to comprehend even as I do. Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge. My comprehension transcends yours.

Help must come from the outside, and it has come and comes daily and answers in the Word of Jesus Christ...

Only the suffering God can help.

The Christian needs another Christian who speaks God's word to him. He needs him again and again when he becomes uncertain and discouraged, for by himself he cannot help himself without belying the truth.

If Jesus Christ is not true God, how could he help us? If he is not true man, how could he help us?

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