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When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

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

Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Justice, Compromise, Christ

The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Suffering, Earth, Christ

I need the Christ that is in you, and you need the Christ that is in me.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Needs, Christ

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Christianity, Christ, Discipleship
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.17, SCM Press

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

When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Prayer, Praying, Christ
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Eberhard Bethge (1974). “Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible”, p.11, Augsburg Books

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

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

Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Men, Christ, Discipleship

Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Hero, Worship, Christ

Then fear will grow pale and fade away, and you will be free, through your faith in our strong and living Savior, Jesus Christ.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus, Strong, Christ
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Collected Sermons of Dietrich Bonhoeffer”, p.61, Fortress Press

Every call of Christ leads into death.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Christ
"Discipleship". Book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, p. 88, 1937.

In Jesus Christ we have been chosen from eternity, accepted in time, and united for eternity.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus, Christ, Eternity
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.11, SCM Press

Jesus Christ has to suffer and be rejected... Suffering and being rejected are not the same.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus, Suffering, Christ
"The Cost of Discipleship (Discipleship and the Cross)". Book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (p. 84), 1937.

The cross is suffering with Christ.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Suffering, Christ, Crosses
"The Cost of Discipleship (Discipleship and the Cross)". Book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (p. 86), 1937.

Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Community, Done, Christ
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.14, SCM Press

Whenever Christ calls us, His call leads us to death.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Christ
"Discipleship". Book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, p. 87, 1937.

The more genuine and the deeper our community becomes, the more will everything else between us recede, the more clearly and purely will Jesus Christ and His work become the one and only thing that is vital between us.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus, Community, Christ
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.14, SCM Press

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