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

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

Jesus says that every Christian has his own cross waiting for him, a cross destined and appointed by God. Each must endure his allotted share of suffering and rejection. But each has a different share: some God deems worthy of the highest form of suffering, and gives them the grace of martyrdom, while others he does not allow to be tempted above that which they are able to bear. But it is the one and the same cross in every case.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Christian, Jesus, Giving
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.44, SCM Press

The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus, Law, Evil
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.91, SCM Press

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

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

After he has been following Christ for a long time, the disciple of Jesus will be asked, "Lacked ye anything?" and he will answer "Nothing, Lord." How could he when he knows that despite hunger and nakedness, persecution and danger, the Lord is always at his side?

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus, Following Christ, Long
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus, Real, Responsibility
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas”, p.34, Westminster John Knox Press

Help must come from the outside, and it has come and comes daily and answers in the Word of Jesus Christ.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus, Answers, Helping

Jesus is no draughtsman of political blueprints, he is the one who vanquished evil through suffering. It looked as though evil had triumphed on the cross, but the real victory belonged to Jesus.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus, Real, Evil
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus, Brethren
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.82, SCM Press

What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus, Self Love, Suffering
"Encountering the Extraordinary". Essay by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1934), published in "Meditations on the Cross" edited by Manfred Weber and translated by Douglas W. Scott (p. 1), 1998.

Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Christian, Jesus, Mean
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.10, SCM Press

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

A community of Jesus which seeks to hide itself has ceased to follow him.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus, Community
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.70, SCM Press

Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this. Whether it is a brief, single encounter or the daily fellowship of years, Christian community is only this. We belong to one another only through and in Jesus Christ.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Christian, Jesus, Mean
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.10, SCM Press

If you believe, take the first step, it leads to Jesus Christ. If you don't believe, take the first step all the same, for you are bidden to take it.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus, Believe, Firsts
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.24, SCM Press

The love for our enemies takes us along the way of the cross and into fellowship with the Crucified. The more we are driven along this road, the more certain is the victory of love over the enemy's hatred. For then it is not the disciple's own love, but the love of Jesus Christ alone, who for the sake of his enemies went to the cross and prayed for them as he hung there.

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

That fact that Jesus Christ died is more important than that fact that I will die.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus, Important, Facts

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.

Jesus' commandment never wishes to destroy life, but rather to preserve, strengthen, and heal life.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus, Wish, Heal
"The Cost of Discipleship". Book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Preface), as translated by Barbara Green and Reihhard Krauss, 1937.

By his willingly renouncing self-defence, the Christian affirms his absolute adherence to Jesus, and his freedom from the tyranny of his own ego. The exclusiveness of this adherence is the only power which can overcome evil.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Christian, Jesus, Self
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.92, SCM Press

Humanly speaking, it is possible to understand the Sermon on the Mount in a thousand different ways. But Jesus knows only one possibility: simple surrender and obedience - not interpreting or applying it, but doing and obeying it. That is the only way to hear his words. He does not mean for us to discuss it as an ideal. He really means for us to get on with it.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus, Mean, Simple

Will not the very moment of great disillusionment with my brother or sister be incomparably wholesome for me becuase it so thoroughly teaches me that both of us can never live by our own words and deeds, but only by that one Word and deed that really binds us together, the forgiveness of sins in Jesus Christ? The bright day of Christian community dawns wherever the early morning mists of dreamy visions are lifting

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Christian, Jesus, Morning

If we want to read and to pray the prayers of the Bible and especially the Psalms, therefore, we must not ask first what they have to do with us, but what they have to do with Jesus Christ...It does not depend, therefore, on whether the Psalms express adequately that which we feel at a given moment in our heart. If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus, Prayer, Heart

Jesus' call to bear the cross places all who follow him in the community of the forgiveness of sins. Forgiving sins is the Christ-suffering required of his disciples. It is required of all Christians.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Christian, Jesus, Community
"Discipleship". Book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, p.88, 1937.

If the heart is devoted to the mirage of the world, to the creature instead of the Creator, the disciple is lost... However urgently Jesus may call us, His call fails to find access to our hearts... for they have already been given to another.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus, Heart, Mirages
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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