Quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Formation comes about only by being drawn into the form and figure of Jesus Christ, by being formed in accordance with the singular form and figure of the Incarnate, Crucified, and Resurrected. This does not come about by exerting oneself 'to become like Jesus,' as we are used to saying, but rather by allowing the form of Jesus Christ to exert its own influence on us such that it shapes our form according to Christ's own (Gal 4:19). Christ remains the only one who forms and shapes. It is not Christians who form the world with their ideas, but rather it is Christ who shapes human beings into a likeness of his own form.”
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian. He was also a participant in the German Resistance movement against Nazism, a founding member of the Confessing Church. His involvement in plans by members of the Abwehr (the German Military Intelligence Office) to assassinate Adolf Hitler resulted in his arrest in April 1943 and his subsequent execution by hanging in April 1945, shortly before the war's end.
Overshadowed by his life and death, his theology and his view of Christianity's role in the secular world has nevertheless remained very influential.
He seems to have undergone something of a personal conversion from a theologian primarily attracted to the intellectual side of Christianity to a dedicated man of faith, resolved to carry out the teaching of Christ as he found it revealed in the Gospels.