Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes About Christianity

Quotes about: Christianity

• Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.

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  Jesus, Two, Trying
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  One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

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  Godly, Christian Inspirational, Christianity

• Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness and pride of power and with its plea for the weak. Christians are doing too little to make these points clear rather than too much. Christendom adjusts itself far too easily to the worship of power. Christians should give more offense, shock the world far more, than they are doing now. Christian should take a stronger stand in favor of the weak rather than considering first the possible right of the strong.

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  Christian, Peace, Strong

• Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

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  Godly, Following Christ, Christianity

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

• Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.

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  Infinite, Christianity, Worthless

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2008). “Barcelona, Berlin, New York, 1928-1931”

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

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  Christianity, Christ, Discipleship

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

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

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  Christian, Jesus, Mean

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.10, 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.

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  Christian, Jesus, Mean

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

• If our Christianity has ceased to be serious about discipleship, if we have watered down the gospel into emotional uplift which makes no costly demands and which fails to distinguish between natural and Christian existence, then we cannot help regarding the cross as an ordinary everyday calamity, as one of the trials and tribulations of life. We have then forgotten that the cross means rejection and shame as well as suffering .

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  Uplifting, Christian, Mean

• Just as God's love entered the world, thereby submitting to the misunderstanding and ambiguity that characterize everything worldly, so also Christian love does not exist anywhere but in the worldly, in an infinite variety of concrete worldly action, and subject to misunderstanding and condemnation. Every attempt to portray a Christianity of 'pure' love purged of worldly 'impurities' is a false purism and perfectionism that scorns God's becoming human and falls prey to the fate of all ideologies. God was not too pure to enter the world.

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  Christian, Fall, Fate

• 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.

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  Jesus, Mean, Simple

• It is the fellowship of the Cross to experience the burden of the other. If one does not experience it, the fellowship he belongs to is not Christian. If any member refuses to bear that burden, he denies the law of Christ.

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  Christian, Law, Doe

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.78, SCM Press

• If religion is onlya garment of Christianityand even this garment has looked very different at different timesthen what is religionless Christianity?

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  Different, Christianity, Garments

• Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace.

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  Grace, Christianity, Monastic Life

• Discipleship means adherence to Christ and, because Christ is the object of that adherence, it must take the form of discipleship. An abstract theology, a doctrinal system, a general religious knowledge of the subject of grace or the forgiveness of sins, render discipleship superfluous, and in fact exclude any idea of discipleship whatsoever, and are essentially inimical to the whole conception of following Christ....Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

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  Religious, Mean, Following Christ

• With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps even to put it into practice; but it can never be followed in personal obedience. Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Practice, Ideas, Christianity

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

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