Discipleship Quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer Download Open image ““The figure of the crucified invalidates all thought which takes success for its standard.”” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Discipleship Success
“It seems we have forgotten His wisdom, where the power lies, and where the glorious revelation of God is: in Jesus crucified and slain… — Eric Gilmour Copy Share Image
“We are crucified to the world, and the world must be as crucified to us. It esteems us as fools, let us esteem it… — Saint Francis De Sales De Sales Copy Share Image
“Whether we believe in Jesus, whether we approve of his teaching, let alone whether we like the look of the movement that still claims… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The crucifixion should never be depicted. It is a horror to be veiled.” — William Golding Copy Share Image
“The crucified Jesus is the only accurate picture of God the world has ever seen.” — John Austin Baker Copy Share Image
“And so, we presume nothing whatsoever on account of ourselves or any of our merits, but having been supported only by the obedience of… — John Thomas Copy Share Image
“If one does not believe entirely in one's choices, then one has already failed.” — Joseph R. Lallo Copy Share Image
“Here the crucified Christ was seen less as the sacrifice which God creates to reconcile the world to himself, and more as the exemplary… — Jurgen Moltmann Copy Share Image
“What says Christ doesn't return today and His most faithful followers don't turn around and have Him crucified again (if that were possible)? That’s… — D.R. Silva Copy Share Image
“Christ JESUS was crucified on the cross for the sins of all souls.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Success presented itself as an impossibility, and the hope of it as a wild hallucination.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne 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
“every church can treat each discipleship class and each worship service as an opportunity for continual rehearsal of what the words, stories, symbols, rituals,… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“It is one thing being disciplined to plan and it is another thing being a disciple of great work. Be your own disciplinarian.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“There are two choices: to be human, made in the image of God, with Jesus; warp to be in human, consumed with greed and… — Megan McKenna Copy Share Image
“There is no shortcut for hard work that leads to effectiveness. You must stay disciplined because most of the work is behind the scenes.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
“Christian discipleship is a decision to walk in his ways, steadily and firmly, and then finding that the way integrates all our interests, passions,… — Eugene Peterson Copy Share Image
“(Bonhoeffer's) change was not an ungainly, embarrassing leap from which he would have to retreat slightly when he gained more maturity and perspective. It… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
“The evangelical wing of the Church spends a lot of energy on being "born again" but little time on "growing up" again. There is… — Steve Stockman Copy Share Image
We even talked like Hemingway characters, though in travesty, as if to deny our discipleship: That is your bed, and it is a good… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image