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
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.
christian grace ruins
The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works.
men doors grace
Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.
men grace treasure
Costly grace is the treasure hidden in the field; for the sake of it a man will gladly go and sell all he has. It is the pearl of great price to by which the merchant will sell all his goods.
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God cleanses and sanctifies us, comes to us with grace and love. God makes us happy, as only children can be happy.
tired grace world
The world upon whom grace is thrust as a bargain will grow tired of it.
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The preaching of grace can only be protected by the preaching of repentance.
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God honors some with great suffering and grants them the grace of martyrdom, while other are not tempted beyond their strength. But in every case it is one cross.
men following-christ grace
The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ. Such a man knows that the call to discipleship is a gift of grace, and that the call is inseparable from the grace. But those who try to use this grace as a dispensation from following Christ are simply deceiving themselves.
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Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.
community done christ
Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
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Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for him to be so. Neither anxiety now work can secure his daily bread, for bread is the gift of the Father.
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The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God.