Dietrich Bonhoeffer
1906–1945
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, and anti-Nazi dissident. He was a founding member of the Confessing Church and involved in the German resistance against Nazism, including a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. He was arrested and executed by hanging in 1945, just weeks before Germany's surrender.
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Key Works
The Cost of Discipleship
Life Together
Letters and Papers from Prison
Ethics
Notable Quotes
"Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves... costly grace is the treasure hidden in the field."
— The Cost of Discipleship
"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act."
— Attributed
"When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die."
— The Cost of Discipleship
"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children."
— Ethics
"We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer."
— Letters and Papers from Prison