Quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
| If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. |
| Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. |
| 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. |
| It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves. |
| To endure the cross is not tragedy it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ. |
| If you board the wrong train, it's no use running along the corridor in the other direction. |
| 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. |
| The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children. |
| Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. |
