Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person. ”

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred. ”

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol. ”

Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy. ”

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children. ”

Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes. ”

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own. ”

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. ”