But discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ...Christ speaks… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If our Christianity has ceased to be serious about discipleship, if we have watered down the gospel into emotional uplift which makes… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
After death something new begins, over which all powers of the world of death have no more might. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will. — 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 cross is laid on every Christian. The first Christ-suffering which every man must experience is the call to abandon the attachments… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“There is a kind of listening with half an ear that presumes already to know what the other person has to say.… — 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
[God says] Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend - it must transcend all comprehension. Plunge into the deep waters… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts… — 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 never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If Christ has been given us, if we are called to his discipleship we are given all things, literally _all_ things. He… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“I always have the feeling we are merely fearfully trying to save room for God; I would rather speak of God at… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“That it is Peter, the rock of the church, who incurs guilt here immediately after his own confession to Jesus Christ and… — 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
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