Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

Compassion • Empathy • Understanding

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.

Spirituality • Faith

Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.

Forgiveness • Salvation • Religion

If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

Mistakes • Direction

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

World • Children

In ordinary life, we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.

Gratitude • Life • Giving