The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
In Jesus Christ we have been chosen from eternity, accepted in time, and united for eternity. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Discipleship is commitment to Christ. Because Christ exists, he must be followed.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
the world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
As Christ bore and received us as sinners so we in his fellowship may bear and receive sinners into the fellowship of… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
... there are not two realities, but only one reality, and that is the reality of God, which has become manifest in… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The God of Jesus Christ has nothing to do with what God, as we imagine him, could do and ought to do.… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
After he has been following Christ for a long time, the disciple of Jesus will be asked, "Lacked ye anything?" and he… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are only two places where the powerful and great in this world lose their courage, tremble in the depths of their… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Cheap grace is the idea that "grace" did it all for me so I do not need to change my lifestyle. The… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The love for our enemies takes us along the way of the cross and into fellowship with the Crucified. The more we… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Christ became our Brother in order to help us. Through him our brother has become Christ for us in the power and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses. I can no longer… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Discipleship means adherence to Christ and, because Christ is the object of that adherence, it must take the form of discipleship. An… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Jesus Christ lived in the midst of his enemies. At the end all his disciples deserted him. On the Cross he was… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“And in the Incarnation the whole human race recovers the dignity of the image of God. Henceforth, any attack even on the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“In confession occurs the breakthrough of the Cross. The root of all sin is pride, superbia. I want to be my own… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“[Jesus] stands between us and God, and for that very reason he stands between us and all other men and things. He… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
In me there is darkness, But with You there is light; I am lonely, but You do not leave me; I am… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
We are separated from one another by an unbridgeable gulf of otherness and strangeness which resists all our attempts to overcome it… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“What determines our brotherhood is what that man is by reason of Christ. Our community with one another consists solely in what… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ has to suffer and be rejected... Suffering and being rejected are not the same. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Why do Christians sing when they are together? The reason is, quite simply, because in singing together it is possible for them to speak… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
...Gratitude transforms the torment of memory of good things now gone into silent joy. One bears what was lovely in the past not as… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life? — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The church can only defend its own space by fighting, not for space, but for the salvation of the world. Otherwise the church becomes… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“To endure the cross is not a tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ. When… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“There is only one church, the church of faith ruled by the word of Jesus Christ alone. This is the true catholic church that… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“As Christians, we needn’t be at all ashamed of some impatience, longing, opposition to what is unnatural, and our full share of desire for… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
![“[Jesus] stands between us and God, and for that very reason he stands between us and all other men and things. He is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality. Since the whole world was created through him and unto him (John 1:3; 1st Cor. 8:6…” quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/326/dietrich-bonhoeffer-303_christ_jesus-stands-between-us-and-god-and-for_1591077.jpg)
