A community of Jesus which seeks to hide itself has ceased to follow him. Neither do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but on the stand. … The bushel may be the fear of men, or perhaps deliberate conformity to the world for some ulterior motive.


exegesis of Matthew 5:13, p. 118. - Discipleship (1937) - The Visible Community

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

A community of Jesus which seeks to hide itself has ceased to follow him. Neither do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but on the stand....

A community of Jesus which seeks to hide itself has ceased to follow him. Neither do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but on the stand....

A community of Jesus which seeks to hide itself has ceased to follow him. Neither do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but on the stand....

A community of Jesus which seeks to hide itself has ceased to follow him. Neither do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but on the stand....