Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

The Gospel of Judas is a kind of protest literature. It's challenging leaders of the church.

Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy.

What's up is faith, what's down is heresy.

Heresie is the school of pride.

A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.

If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.

I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn't coming back.' They started throwing Bibles.

Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.

I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.

David and his followers taught no new doctrines, in their dispersion or when they came to power, that can be brought to countenance thee at all in shaving off thy beard.

He who departs from consensus is not an infidel.

Religion claims to be in possession of an absolute truth; but its history is a history of errors and heresies.

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy, and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

There would never have been an infidel had there never been a priest.

Every church is orthodox to itself; to others, erroneous or heretical.

The only way you can separate yourself from the [Roman Catholic] church is by knowingly and deliberately denying a dogma of faith. Abortion is not a dogma.

The doctrines of Christian theology are a rhapsody of feigned and ill-invented nonsense

Whoever teaches differently from what I have taught, … condemns God and must remain a child of hell.

Better heresy of doctrine than heresy of heart.

A heretic can be tolerated. But a heresy cannot.

In corporation [corporate] religions as in others, the heretic must be cast out not because of the probability that he is wrong but because of the possibility that he is right.

When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

The testimony of scripture is so plain that to add anything were superfluous, were it not that the world is almost now come to that blindness, that whatsoever pleases not the princes and the multitude, the same is rejected as doctrine newly forged, and is condemned for heresy.

The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy...