Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• 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.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Music, Character, Joy

• In the first place, the church can ask the state whether its actions are legitimate and in accordance with its character as state, i.e., it can throw the state back on its responsibilities. Secondly, it can aid the victims of state action. The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering of society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community. The third possibility is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Responsibility, Character

• Telling the truth ... is not solely a matter of moral character; it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of serious reflection upon them.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Appreciation, Truth, Real

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “Ethics”, p.359, Simon and Schuster

• Prayer is the supreme instance of the hidden character of the Christian life.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Prayer, Character

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.110, SCM Press

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