Dietrich BonhoefferThinkers

Context is everything — No actions are bad in themselves even murder can be justified.

Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom.

The Existence of god is, by definition, unprovable — A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

God is, by definition, unprovable — A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Marriage is soon no longer sustained by one's love, but rather it becomes it that sustains one's love.

Optimism 1s 2ssence 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.

Responsibility is action's source. Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.