Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

The license said you had to stick around until I was dead, but if you're tired of looking at my face I guess I already am.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

I put a lot of effort into not upsetting people and trying to do things the right way, so I feel I can reserve the right to complain when I feel let down by others.

You can't pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It's not something that disappears when you're tired.

Believe me, I have better things to do than sabotage your friendships. No one else's world revolves around you, Cassandra." -Paige to Cassandra

The proclamation of grace has its limits. Grace may not be proclaimed to anyone who does not recognize or distinguish or desire it... The world upon whom grace is thrust as a bargain will grow tired of it, and it will not only trample upon the Holy, but also will tear apart those who force it on them.

But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless.

I was tired of admiring your legs from a distance.

The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established.

I would like to thank a world that never understood or accepted me, family and friends that never believed in me, and a God with one hell of a sense of humor. You have all made me what I am today. Let that weigh heavily on your consciences.

What the hell, I paid my dues.

Somehow I found him. Somehow I found Al's sarcastic thoughts, bitter and old. Tired, angry, bored. Alone.

I'm tired of being second.... I'm done with it.

When gifts are replaced by rights, so is gratitude replaced by claims. And claims breed resentment

Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.

Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle.

It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.

Somehow I had turned myself into the worst thing in the world: I was just another man who wanted to teach me something!

Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.

Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.

Duty and dereliction guide thee back to solitude.

Nothing is too extravagant to expect from men who conceive they are ungratefully and unjustly dealt by.

The doctor that acts out of love doesn't burn out. He or she may get tired physically, but not emotionally.

At one store, Gansey had started to pay for Blue's potato chips and she'd snatched them away. "I don't want you to buy me food!" Blue said. "If you pay for it, then it's like I'm... be---be---" "Beholden to me?" Gansey suggested pleasantly. "Don't put words into my mouth." "It was your word." "You assumed it was my word. You can't just go around assuming." "But that is what you meant, isn't it?" She scowled. "I'm done with this conversation.