Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

The devil makes many disciples by preaching against sin. He convinces them that the great evil of sin, induces a crisis of guilt by which “God is satisfied," and after that he lets them spend the rest of their lives meditating on the intense sinfulness and evident reprobation of other men.

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

Satan’s successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.

On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.

When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register.

The devil never tempted a man whom he found judiciously employed.

Out of sight is out of mind.

There is also an age-old excuse: “The devil made me do it.” Not so! He can deceive you and mislead you, but he does not have the power to force you or anyone else to transgress or to keep you in transgression.

Becuse God loves us, but the devil takes an interest.

Prayerlessness is sin.

One eare it heard, at the other out it went.

A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.

Satan would seem to be mannerly and reasonable; making as if he would be content with one-half of the heart, whereas God challengeth all or none: as, indeed, He hath most reason to claim all that made all. But this is nothing but a crafty fetch of Satan; for he knows that if he have any part, God will have none: so the whole falleth to his share alone.

The devil resists serious, focused prayer because he's defeated by it. And so the devil will try to attack our concentration in prayer; he will try to confuse or contradict the content of our prayers; he will do his best to distract and/or divert us in prayer so that we're crippled by inconsistency.

O woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!

But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him.

Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil one could almost believe one's own secret sin didn't matter.

We see God and the devil making fools of each other, and we nurture in ourselves the absolutely unshakable conviction that both of them are drunk.

The Devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant.

Whatever sin the heart of man is most prone to, that the devil will help forward.

The devil's one object is so to depress God's people that he can go to the man of the world and say: There are God's people. Do you want to be like that?

The Devil may also make use of morality.

When the devil is called the god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldliness.

The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independent of God.

If I were the devil, one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible.