Although I know full well and hear every day that many people think little of me and say that I only write little pamphlets and sermons in German for the uneducated laity, I do not let that stop me. Would to God that in my lifetime I had, to my fullest ability, helped one layman to be better!

Some wondered whether he was just kicking against the goads, but when someone asked Bonhoeffer whether he shouldn't join the German Christians in order to work against them from within, he answered that he couldn't. 'If you board the wrong train,' he said, 'it is no use running along the corridor in the opposite direction.

The only fight which is lost is that which we give up.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might.

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

The secret to success is constancy of purpose.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

Refuse to be disheartened, discouraged, distracted from your goals in life.

I have always said from day dot if somebody comes in and they give me a chance to play and play regularly then they will get the best out of me.