Discipleship Quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Cheap grace is grace without discipleship.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Salvation is free, but discipleship will cost you your life

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Suffering, then, is the badge of true discipleship. The disciple is not above his master. Following Christ means passio passiva, suffering because…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The figure of the crucified invalidates all thought which takes success for its standard.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

After death something new begins, over which all powers of the world of death have no more might.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“discipleship can tolerate no conditions which might come between Jesus and our obedience to him.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The desire we so often hear expressed today for “episcopal figures,” “priestly men,” “authoritative personalities” springs frequently enough from a spiritually sick…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“That it is Peter, the rock of the church, who incurs guilt here immediately after his own confession to Jesus Christ and…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Costly grace is the treasure hidden in the field; for the sake of it a man will gladly go and sell all…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“I always have the feeling we are merely fearfully trying to save room for God; I would rather speak of God at…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Christianity without the living Jesus Christ remains necessarily a Christianity without discipleship; and a Christianity without discipleship is always a Christianity without…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Self-denial means knowing only Christ, and no longer oneself. It means seeing only Christ, who goes ahead of us, and no longer…

— 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

“The cross always simultaneously means rejection, and that the disgrace of suffering is part of the cross. Being expelled, despised, and abandoned…

— 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

“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

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

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

If Christ has been given us, if we are called to his discipleship we are given all things, literally _all_ things. He…

— 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 what does the text inform us about the content of discipleship? Follow me, run along behind me! That is all. To…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“All that the follower of Jesus has to do is to make sure that his obedience, following and love are entirely spontaneous…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“There is a kind of listening with half an ear that presumes already to know what the other person has to say.…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“So the call to discipleship is a commitment solely to the person of Jesus Christ, a breaking through of all legalisms by…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

If our Christianity has ceased to be serious about discipleship, if we have watered down the gospel into emotional uplift which makes…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer