Christ Quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The cross is suffering with Christ.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Every call of Christ leads into death.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Whenever Christ calls us, His call leads us to death.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Discipleship is commitment to Christ. Because Christ exists, he must be followed.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In Jesus Christ we have been chosen from eternity, accepted in time, and united for eternity.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

the world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

As Christ bore and received us as sinners so we in his fellowship may bear and receive sinners into the fellowship of…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

... there are not two realities, but only one reality, and that is the reality of God, which has become manifest in…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Church is the Church only when it exists for others...not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The God of Jesus Christ has nothing to do with what God, as we imagine him, could do and ought to do.…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

After he has been following Christ for a long time, the disciple of Jesus will be asked, "Lacked ye anything?" and he…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There are only two places where the powerful and great in this world lose their courage, tremble in the depths of their…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Cheap grace is the idea that "grace" did it all for me so I do not need to change my lifestyle. The…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ's sake. Therefore, human love…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The love for our enemies takes us along the way of the cross and into fellowship with the Crucified. The more we…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses. I can no longer…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Christ became our Brother in order to help us. Through him our brother has become Christ for us in the power and…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Discipleship means adherence to Christ and, because Christ is the object of that adherence, it must take the form of discipleship. An…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“And in the Incarnation the whole human race recovers the dignity of the image of God. Henceforth, any attack even on the…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Jesus Christ lived in the midst of his enemies. At the end all his disciples deserted him. On the Cross he was…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“In confession occurs the breakthrough of the Cross. The root of all sin is pride, superbia. I want to be my own…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“[Jesus] stands between us and God, and for that very reason he stands between us and all other men and things. He…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In me there is darkness, But with You there is light; I am lonely, but You do not leave me; I am…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“What determines our brotherhood is what that man is by reason of Christ. Our community with one another consists solely in what…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We are separated from one another by an unbridgeable gulf of otherness and strangeness which resists all our attempts to overcome it…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Jesus Christ has to suffer and be rejected... Suffering and being rejected are not the same.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer