Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes About Poverty

Quotes about: Poverty

• If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray. The richness of the Word of God ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Prayer, Heart, Important

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

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Life, Happiness, Success

• The richness of God’s Word ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Prayer, Heart, Poverty

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1996). “Life Together: Prayerbook of the Bible”, Fortress Pr

• God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment. No evil can befall us; whatever men may do to us, they cannot but serve the God who is secretly revealed as love and rules the world and our lives.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christmas, Men, Light

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas”, p.5, Westminster John Knox 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

• Bless them that persecute you.' If our enemy cannot put up with us any longer and takes to cursing us, our immediate reaction must be to lift up our hands and bless him. Our enemies are the blessed of the Lord. Their curse can do us no harm. May their poverty be enriched with all the riches of God, with the blessing of Him whom they seek to oppose in vain. We are ready to endure their curses so long as they redound to their blessing.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Blessed, Blessing, Hands

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.97, 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

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