, I have highlighted these thoughts so far:"[T]here is always only one really significant hour—the present"
“The religion of Christ,” he said, “is not a tidbit after one’s bread; on the contrary, it is the bread or it is nothing."
“Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.”
[H]e believed communicating what he knew theologically—whether to indifferent businessmen, teenagers, or younger children—was as important as the theology itself.
"God is free not from human beings but for them. Christ is the word of God’s freedom."
And the following, he reported to a friend, he said to a little boy who sobbed out his heart-break because his dog ("Herr Wolf") had died and then asked Bonhoeffer if he would see his dog again in heaven:
“Look, God created human beings and also animals, and I’m sure he also loves animals. And I believe that with God it is such that all who loved each other on earth—genuinely loved each other— will remain together with God, for to love is part of God. Just how that happens, though, we admittedly don’t know.”
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