Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes About Temptation

Quotes about: Temptation

• Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Mean, Temptation, Being Free

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1997). “Creation and Fall Temptation: Two Biblical Studies”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

• 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

• The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word. Thus he dangles before man's fantasy a kingdom of faith, of power, and of peace, into which only he can enter who consents to the temptations; and conceals from men that he, as the devil, is the most unfortunate and unhappy of beings, since he is finally and eternally rejected by God.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Bible, Christian, Lying

• It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Blessed, Temptation, Together

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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