“Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)”

“So what stands in place of the Christian message? An ethical and social idealism borne by a faith in progress that - who knows how - claims the right to call itself "Christian." And in the place of the church as the congregation of believers in Christ there stands the church as a social corporation." ~Bonhoeffer”

“...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption.”

“Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God's word, but testify to it. Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer”

“Every weakness contains within itself a strength.”

“Each of them, all unknowing, fairly gives its due to each chance of life, to each germ of death within itself.”