Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes About Responsibility

Quotes about: Responsibility

• We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Letters and Papers from Prison".

• A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Real, Responsibility

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas”, p.34, Westminster John Knox Press

• 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

• Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Mean, Responsibility, Political

• When we come to a clearer and more sober estimate of our own limitations and responsibilities, that makes it possible more genuinely to love our neighbor.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Responsibility, Sober, Neighbor

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