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Cheap grace is grace without discipleship.

Cheap grace is grace without discipleship.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Grace, Discipleship, Christian Discipleship
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.4, SCM Press

Only the believer obeys — obedience follows faith, the way good fruit comes from a good tree. Only the obedient believe.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Believe, Obedient
"Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Meditation and Prayer".

Disciples will not be weakened by suffering, worn down, and embittered until they are broken. Instead, they bear suffering, by the power of him who supports them. The disciples bear the suffering laid on them only by the power of him who bears all suffering on the cross. As bearers of suffering, they stand in communion with the Crucified.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Broken, Support, Suffering

It matters little what form of prayer we adopt or how many words we use. What matters is the faith which lays hold on God, knowing that He knows our needs before we even ask Him. That is what gives Christian prayer its boundless confidence and its joyous certainty.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Christian, Prayer, Knowing
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.110, SCM Press

When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself - a saint, or a converted sinner, or a churchman (a so-called clerical somebody), a righteous or unrighteous man,...and throws himself into the arms of God...then he wakes with Christ in Gethsemane. That is faith, that is metanoia and it is thus that he becomes a man and Christian.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Christian, Giving Up, Men
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.22, SCM Press

The Church is the Church only when it exists for others.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Church
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Geffrey B. Kelly (1990). “A testament to freedom: the essential writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer”, Harpercollins

Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.

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Jesus, Matter, Significance
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.16, SCM Press

Who is pure in heart? Only those who have surrendered their hearts completely to Jesus that he may reign in them alone. Only those whose hearts are undefiled by their own evil--and by their own virtues too. The pure in heart have a child-like simplicity like Adam before the fall, innocent alike of good and evil: their hearts are not ruled by their conscience, but by the will of Jesus.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus, Children, Fall

We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because the last word also belongs to God.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Spiritual, Sleep, Should Have
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Clyde E. Fant (1975). “Bonhoeffer: worldly preaching”

If any want to become my followers," Jesus says. Following him is not something that is self-evident, even among the disciples. No one can be forced, no one can be expected to follow him. ... "If any want to follow me, they must deny themselves ... and take up their cross.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus, Self, Followers
"Discipleship". Book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, p. 85, 1937.

The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Reality, Men, Sight
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1955). “Ethics”, SCM Press

It is the voice of the Church that is heard in singing together. It is not you that sings, it is the Church that is singing, and you, as a member of the Church, may share in its song.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Song, Voice, Singing
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.45, SCM Press

Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Faith, Believe, Obedience

The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Happy Life, Men, Christ
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.44, SCM Press

Loving God means rejoicing in God, being eager to think of and pray to God. It means being glad to be in God's presence and to be with God alone. It means not grieving God, but rejoicing in God simply because it is God who is involved, and because we are permitted to know and have God, and to speak with and live with God.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Mean, Thinking, Grieving

You can only learn what obedience is by obeying

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Obedience, Obeying
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.34, SCM Press

Prayer is the supreme instance of the hidden character of the Christian life.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Christian, Prayer, Character
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.110, SCM Press

Who stands firm? Only the one for whom the final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all these, when in faith and sole allegiance to God he is called to obedient and responsible action: the responsible person, whose life will be nothing but an answer to God's question and call.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Sacrifice, Answers, Principles
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1966). “I Loved this People: Testimonies of Responsibility”, London : S.P.C.K.

If Jesus Christ is not true God, how could he help us? If he is not true man, how could he help us?

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus, Men, Helping
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Edwin Hanton Robertson (1973). “True patriotism; 1939-45: from the collected works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer”

The fearful danger of the present time is that above the cry for authority, we forget that man stands alone before the ultimate authority, and that anyone who lays violent hands on man here, is infringing eternal laws, and taking upon himself superhuman authority, which will eventually crush him.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Crush, Men, Hands

Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Trying, Relevant, Relevance
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Clyde E. Fant (1975). “Bonhoeffer: worldly preaching”

To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only Him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us. Once more, all that self-denial can say is, 'He leads the way, keep close to Him.'

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Self, Denial, Asceticism
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.43, SCM Press

Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Joy, Draws, Unfathomable

Once again, Jesus calls those who follow him to share his passion.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus, Passion, Share
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.94, SCM Press

So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus, Home, Uncomfortable Feeling
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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