Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• Do not worry! Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in truth, they are what cause anxiety. The heart which clings to goods receives with them the choking burden of worry. Worry collects treasures, and treasures produce more worries. We desire to secure our lives with earthly goods; we want our worrying to make us worry-free, but the truth is the opposite. The chains which bind us to earthly goods, the clutches which hold the goods tight, are themselves worries.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Believe, Heart, Opposites

• Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Desire, Doe, Bread

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.51, SCM Press

• Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other hand, desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer.Lack of desire is poverty.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Hands, Desire, Sake

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2001). “Letters and Papers from Prison”, p.77, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

• 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.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Home, Uncomfortable Feeling

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

• Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ's sake. Therefore, human love seeks direct contact with the other person; it loves him not as a free person but as one whom it binds to itself.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Spiritual, Mean, Love Is

  "Life Togehter".

• If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Thanksgiving, Self, Desire

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.115, SCM Press

• Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Desire, Sake, Poverty

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2001). “Letters and Papers from Prison”, p.77, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

• The proclamation of grace has its limits. Grace may not be proclaimed to anyone who does not recognize or distinguish or desire it... The world upon whom grace is thrust as a bargain will grow tired of it, and it will not only trample upon the Holy, but also will tear apart those who force it on them.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Tired, Grace, Tears

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1966). “The Way to Freedom: 1935-1939, from the Collected Works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer”, New York : Harper & Row

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