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Living Quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace.
- When one person is struck by the Word, he speaks it to others. God has willed that we should seek and find His living Word…
- God has willed that we should seek and find God's living Word in the testimony of other Christians, in the mouths of human beings.
- Then fear will grow pale and fade away, and you will be free, through your faith in our strong and living Savior, Jesus Christ.
- Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.
- Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
- Many Christians are unthinkably horrified when a real sinner is suddenly discovered among the righteous. So we remain alone with our sin, living in lies…
- With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps even to put…
- I discovered later, and I'm still discovering right up to this moment, that is it only by living completely in this world that one learns…
- Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without…
- The earthly form of Christ is the form that died on the cross. The image of God is the image of Christ crucified. It is…
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