Life Together
Christian brotherhood is not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ in which we may participate.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, J.W. Doberstein (Translator) • Life Together
The more genuine and the deeper our community becomes, the more will everything else between us recede, the more clearly and purely will Jesus Christ and his work become the one and only thing that is vital between us. We have one another only through Christ, but through Christ we do have one another, wholly, and for all eternity.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, J.W. Doberstein (Translator) • Life Together
Our righteousness is an ‘alien righteousness’ a righteousness that comes from outside of us (extra nos).
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, J.W. Doberstein (Translator) • Life Together
The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to be of the Kingdom of Christ; he wants to be among friends, to sit among roses and lilies, not with the bad people but the devout people.