Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes About Worship

Quotes about: Worship

• Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness and pride of power and with its plea for the weak. Christians are doing too little to make these points clear rather than too much. Christendom adjusts itself far too easily to the worship of power. Christians should give more offense, shock the world far more, than they are doing now. Christian should take a stronger stand in favor of the weak rather than considering first the possible right of the strong.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Peace, Strong

• Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Hero, Worship, Christ

• It is the voice of the Church that is heard in singing together. It is not you that sings, it is the Church that is singing, and you, as a member of the Church, may share in its song.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Song, Voice, Singing

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.45, SCM Press

• The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Hero, Son, Pay

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.32, SCM Press

• On Sunday 8 April 1945, he had just finished conducting a service of worship at Schoenberg, when two soldiers came took him away. As he left, he said to another prisoner, This is the end - but for me, the beginning - of life. He was hanged the next day, less than a week before the Allies reached the camp.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Life, Sunday, Two

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