"Dietrich Bonhoeffer" Blogs & Blog Posts

“I have had time to think and to pray about my situation and that of my nation and to have God’s will for me clarified… I must live through this difficult period of our national history with the Christian people of Germany. I shall have no righ...

“What led Germany to this strange pass [Nazism] was itself strange. After the war [World War I], many were happy to wipe away the old order and rid themselves of the kaiser. But when the old monarch at last left the palace, the people who had clam...

“…misery, sorrow, poverty, loneliness, helplessness, and guilt mean something quite different in the eyes of God than according to human judgment; that God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away; that Christ was born in a stable...