"In the gray dawn of an April day in 1945, in the concentration camp at Flossenburg, shortly before it was liberated by the allied forces, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was liberated by special order of Heinrich Himmler." Introduction, pg. 7

"Christian community means community through and in Jesus Christ. On this presupposition rests everything that the Scriptures provide in the way of directions and precepts for the communal life of Christians." Chapter I, pg. 24

"Christian brotherhood is not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ in which we may participate." Chapter I, pg. 30

"For Christians the beginning of the day should not be burdened and oppressed with besetting concerns for the day's work. At the threshold of the new day stands the Lord who made it. All the darkness and distraction of the dreams of night retreat before the clear light of Jesus...