Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoefferwas a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident, and key founding member of the Confessing Church. His writings on Christianity's role in the secular world have become widely influential, and his book The Cost of Discipleship became a modern classic...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth4 February 1906
CountryGermany
Dietrich Bonhoeffer quotes about
jesus discipline grace
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 confession.... Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.
jesus brethren
In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one.
jesus son israel
It is not that God's help and presence must still be proved in our life; rather God's presence and help have been demonstrated for us in the life of Jesus Christ. It is in fact more important for us to know what God did to Israel, in God's Son Jesus Christ, than to discover what God intends for us today. The fact that Jesus Christ died is more important than the fact that I will die. And the fact that Jesus Christ was raised from the dead is the sole ground of my hope that I, too, will be raised on the day of judgment
real people evil
While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human; and we must recognize that God wills that we be human, real human beings. While we distinguish between pious and godless, good and evil, noble and base, God loves real people without distinction.
jesus letters scripture
Every word of Holy Scripture was a love letter from God directed very personally to us and he asked us whether we loved Jesus.
faith atheist godly
A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
jesus real responsibility
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.
christian jesus mean
Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this.
god christian gracious
If you reject God's commanding word, you will not receive God's gracious word.
men reason-why incarnation
The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man.
christian self humanity
The church is her true self only when she exists for humanity.
long looks armor
As long as we let the Word of God be our only armor, we can look confidently into the future.
christ
Every call of Christ leads into death.
christian foe thick
So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.