Дитрих Бонхёффер цитаты страница 4

„Глупость — ещё более опасный враг добра, чем злоба.“

«Жизнь в христианском общении», Гл.1

„Иисус призывает не к новой религии, а к жизни“

«Сопротивление и покорность»

„Смерть — величайший праздник на пути к свободе“

«Письма другу», июль 1944

„Человеческая любовь делает из себя самоцель, идола, которого она боготворит и которому все должно подчиняться“

«Письма другу», июль 1944

„В страдании кроется освобождение, ибо человек получает право передать дело своей жизни в Божий руки“

«Жизнь в христианском общении», Гл.1

„Не гении, не циники, не человеконенавистники, не рафинированные комбинаторы понадобятся нам, а простые, безыскусные, прямые люди“

«Письма другу», июль 1944

Дитрих Бонхёффер Цитаты о мужчинах

„«Правдивость» ведь еще не подразумевает обнажения всего, что есть в душе. Сам Бог дал людям одежды, т. е. многие вещи in statu corruptionis должны оставаться сокрытыми, а зло, если нет возможности его истребить, должно, во всяком случае, скрываться“

«Сопротивление и покорность»

„Не homo religiosus, а человек, просто человек—вот что такое христианин, как Иисус был человеком в отличие, скажем, от Иоанна Предтечи“

«Письма другу», ноябрь 1943

„Пастор не должен жаловаться на приход не только другим людям, но и Богу“

«Письма другу», июль 1944

„Быть христианином не значит быть религиозным на тот или иной манер“

«Жизнь в христианском общении», Гл.1

Дитрих Бонхёффер цитаты

„Следовать Христу означает жить в самом мире“

«Письма другу», июль 1944

„Я должен пережить этот сложный период нашей национальной истории вместе с христианами в Германии. У меня не будет права участвовать в возрождении христианской жизни после войны, если я не разделю с моим народом испытания этого времени.“

«Следуя Христу»

„Нравственность общества определяется его отношением к детям.“

„Если верить Библии, основателем городов-гигантов был Каин“

„Исповедь как благочестивое дело — изобретение дьявола“

«Письма другу», май 1944

„Церкви не нужны блестящие личности“

«Жизнь в христианском общении», Гл.5

„«Предательство», например, не есть правда, так же как фривольность, цинизм и т. п.“

«Жизнь в христианском общении», Гл.4

„Человеческая любовь живет неконтролируемыми и неуправляемыми темными желаниями; духовная любовь живет в чистом свете служения, предписанного истиной“

«Письма другу», ноябрь 1943

„Человеческая любовь не очень высоко ценит истину“

«Жизнь в христианском общении», Гл.1

„Мы приближаемся к абсолютно безрелигиозному периоду“

«Жизнь в христианском общении», Гл.1

„Даровая благодать есть проповедь прощения без покаяния“

«Письма другу», апрель 1944

„«Бог» как рабочая гипотеза, как лазейка для выхода из затруднительных положений, стал ненужным“

«Следуя Христу»

„Нападки христианской апологетики на совершеннолетие мира я считаю, во-первых, бессмысленными, во-вторых, нечестными, в-третьих, нехристианскими“

«Письма другу», август 1944

„Ни вечные снега, ни вечно голубые небеса меня также не вдохновляют. Я искал «совершенства» в человеческом, живом, земном“

«Письма другу», июнь 1944

„Лютерано-реформатские (частью и католические) противоречия уже не являются подлинными“

«Письма другу», июль 1944

„Божья благодать быстро разрушает мечты“

«Письма другу», август 1944

„Бог как моральная, политическая, естественнонаучная рабочая гипотеза упразднен, преодолен; точно так же как и в смысле философской и религиозной гипотезы (Фейербах!). Интеллектуальная честность требует отказа от этой рабочей гипотезы“

«Жизнь в христианском общении», Гл.1

„Избыток альтруизма действует угнетающе“

«Письма другу», июль 1944

“How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.”

«Письма другу», май 1944

Дитрих Бонхёффер: Цитаты на английском языке

“Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.”

Источник: Discipleship

“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions.”

“The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.”

Источник: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

“So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.”

“Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer книга The Cost of Discipleship

Источник: The Cost of Discipleship

“If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.”

Источник: Creation and Fall Temptation: Two Biblical Studies

“Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their personal intentions may be ever so honest, earnest, and sacrificial.”

Источник: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

“No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.”

Источник: Life Together and Prayerbook of the Bible

“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”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer книга The Cost of Discipleship

Источник: The Cost of Discipleship

“Anything I cannot thank God for for the sake of Christ, I may not thank God for at all; to do so would be sin…. We cannot rightly acknowledge the gifts of God unless we acknowledge the Mediator for whose sake alone they are given to us.”

Источник: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

“A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted to him in order that he should become its accuser before God and men.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer книга The Cost of Discipleship

Источник: The Cost of Discipleship

“How wrong it is to use God as a stop-gap for the incompleteness of our knowledge. If in fact the frontiers of knowledge are being pushed further and further back (and that is bound to be the case), then God is being pushed back with them, and is therefore continually in retreat. We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don’t know.”

Источник: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

“Beside the staff of life,
taken and fashioned from the heavy earth,
beside our marriage, work, and war
the free man, too, will live and grow towards the sun.
Not the ripe fruit alone —
blossom is lovely, too.
Does blossom only serve the fruit,
or does fruit only serve the blossom —
who knows?
But both are given to us.”

Letters and papers from Prison (1997), p. 311. May 25, 1944 letter to Eberhard Bethge,

“The outcome of the Reformation was the victory, not of Luther's perception of grace in all its purity and costliness, but of the vigilant religious instinct of man for the place where grace is to be obtained at the cheapest price.”

Letters and Papers from Prison (1967; 1997), The Friend

“When we judge other people we confront them in a spirit of detachment, observing and reflecting as it were from the outside. But love has neither time nor opportunity for this. If we love, we can never observe the other person with detachment, for he is always and at every moment a living claim to our love and service.”

translated as The Cost of Discipleship (1959), p. 49.
Discipleship (1937), Costly Grace

“The call to the cloister demanded of Luther the complete surrender of his life. But God shattered all his hopes. He showed him through the Scriptures that the following of Christ is not the achievement or merit of a select few, but the divine command to all Christians without distinction. Monasticism had transformed the humble work of discipleship into the meritorious activity of the saints, and the self-renunciation of discipleship into the flagrant spiritual self-assertion of the "religious."”

Источник: Discipleship (1937), The Disciple and Unbelievers, p. 184.

“Cheap grace means justification of sin without the justification of the sinner. Grace alone does everything they say, and so everything can remain as it was before. … Well, then, let the Christian live like the rest of the world, let him model himself on the world’s standards in every sphere of life, and not presumptuously aspire to live a different life under grace from his old life under sin. That was the heresy of the enthusiasts, the Anabaptists and their kind. … Let him live like the rest of the world! Of course he would like to go and do something extraordinary, and it does demand a good deal of self-restraint to refrain from the attempt and content himself with living as the world lives. Yet it is imperative for the Christian to achieve renunciation, to practice self-effacement.”

translated as The Cost of Discipleship (1959), p. 47.
Discipleship (1937), Costly Grace

“Distant or near,
in joy or in sorrow,
each in the other
sees his true helper
to brotherly freedom.”

translated as The Cost of Discipleship (1959), p. 43.
Discipleship (1937), Costly Grace

“Distinction between person and office is wholly alien to the teaching of Jesus. He says nothing about that. He addresses his disciples as men who have left all to follow him, and the precept of non-violence applies equally to private life and official duty. He is the Lord of all life, and demands undivided allegiance.”

Letters and Papers from Prison (1967; 1997), The Friend

“The activity will prove to be "peculiar" by leading the active person into Christ's own passion. This activity itself is perpetual suffering and enduring. In it, Christ is suffered by his disciple. If this is not the case, it is not the activity Jesus intended. In this way, the "extraordinary" is the fulfilling of the law, the keeping of the commandments.”

Источник: Discipleship (1937), Revenge, p. 143.

“Jesus offers his disciples a simple rule of thumb which will enable even the least sophisticated of them to tell whether his intercourse with others is on the right lines or not. All he need do is to say “I” instead of “Thou,” and put himself in the other man’s place.”

Источник: Meditations on the Cross (1996), Encountering the Extraordinary, p. 1

“To everyone God is the kind of God he believes in.”

Источник: Discipleship (1937), The Disciple and Unbelievers, p. 188.

“As Christianity spread, and the Church became more secularized, this realization of the costliness of grace gradually faded. The world was Christianized, and grace became its common property. It was to be had at low cost. Yet the Church of Rome did not altogether lose the earlier vision. It is highly significant that the Church was astute enough to find room for the monastic movement … Thus monasticism became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity and the cheapening of grace. … Monasticism was represented as an individual achievement which the mass of the laity could not be expected to emulate. By thus limiting the application of the commandments of Jesus to a restricted group of specialists, the Church evolved the fatal conception of the double standard.”

Источник: Discipleship (1937), The Disciple and Unbelievers, p. 185.

“Costly grace is the treasure hidden in the field; for the sake of it a man will gladly go and sell all he has. It is the pearl of great price to by which the merchant will sell all his goods.”

translated as The Cost of Discipleship (1959), pp. 46-47.
Discipleship (1937), Costly Grace

“By our enemies Jesus means those who are quite intractable and utterly unresponsive to our love.”

Источник: Costly Grace, p. 45.

““Reformation theology” … pretends to prefer to Pharasaic ostentation a modest invisibility, which in practice means conformity to the world. When that happens, the hallmark of the Church becomes justitia civilis instead of extraordinary visibility. The very failure of the light to shine becomes the touchstone of our Christianity.”

Источник: Discipleship (1937), The Enemy, the "Extraordinary", p. 148.

“Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy’s hatred, the greater his need of love. Be his enmity political or religious, he has nothing to expect from a follower of Jesus but unqualified love. In such love there is no inner discord between private person and official capacity. In both we are disciples of Christ, or we are not Christians at all.”

Источник: Discipleship (1937), The Visible Community, p. 118.

“If when we judged others, our real motive was to destroy evil, we should look for evil where it is certain to be found, and that is in our own hearts. But if we are on the look-out for evil in others, our real motive is obviously to justify ourselves.”

Источник: Discipleship (1937), The Enemy, the "Extraordinary", p. 148.

“The πξρισσον [extraordinary] never merges into the το αυτο [merely personal]. That was the fatal mistake of the false Protestant ethic which diluted Christian love into patriotism, loyalty to friends, and industriousness, which in short, perverted the better righteousness into justitia civilis.”

Источник: Discipleship (1937), The Disciple and Unbelievers, p. 185.