Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes About Decisions

Quotes about: Decisions

• It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Strong, Men, Issues

• The time is short. Eternity is long. It is the time of decision.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Long, Decision, Eternity

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.159, SCM Press

• Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions, demanded by work, become easier and simpler where they are made not in the fear of men, but only in the sight of God. He wants to give us today the power which we need for our work.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Morning, Prayer, Work

• But to procrastinate and prevaricate simply because you're afraid of erring, when others - I mean our brethren in Germany - must make infinitely more difficult decisions every day, seems to me almost to run counter to love. To delay or fail to make decisions may be more sinful than to make wrong decisions out of faith and love.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Running, Mean, Decision

• It is remarkable how I am never quite clear about the motives for any of my decisions. Is that a sign of confusion or inner dishonesty or is it a sign that we are guided without our knowing or is it both ...The reasons one gives for an action to others and to one's self are certainly inadequate. One can give a reason for everything. In the last resort one acts from a level which remains hidden from us. So one can only ask God to judge us and to forgive us.... At the end of the day I can only ask God to give a merciful judgement on today and all its decisions. It is now in his hand.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Hands, Knowing, Self

• But discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ...Christ speaks to us exactly as he spoke to them. It was not as though they first recognized him as the Christ and then received his command. They believed his word and command and recognized him as the Christ--in that order.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Order, Decision

• Discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Decision, Action

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.166, SCM Press

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