Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

Politics are not the task of a Christian.

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.