David Berry

“We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

“A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes - and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, God is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas

“While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, God is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas

“The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community