Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes About Jesus

Quotes about: Jesus

• Jesus calls men, not to a new religion, but to life.

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  Jesus, Men, Call Me

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

• 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

• 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.

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  Jesus, Discipline, Grace

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2001). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.4, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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

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  Jesus, Answers, Helping

• In me there is darkness, But with You there is light; I am lonely, but You do not leave me; I am feeble in heart, but with You there is help; I am restless, but with You there is peace. In me there is bitterness, but with You there is patience; I do not understand Your ways, But You know the way for me.” “Lord Jesus Christ, You were poor And in distress, a captive and forsaken as I am. You know all man’s troubles; You abide with me When all men fail me; You remember and seek me; It is Your will that I should know You And turn to You. Lord, I hear Your call and follow; Help me.

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  Lonely, Jesus, Heart

• It is not in our life that God's help and presence must still be proved, but 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, to his Son Jesus Christ, than to seek what God intends for us today.

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  Jesus, Son, Israel

  "Life Together".

• Who is pure in heart? Only those who have surrendered their hearts completely to Jesus that he may reign in them alone. Only those whose hearts are undefiled by their own evil--and by their own virtues too. The pure in heart have a child-like simplicity like Adam before the fall, innocent alike of good and evil: their hearts are not ruled by their conscience, but by the will of Jesus.

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  Jesus, Children, Fall

• There are only two places where the powerful and great in this world lose their courage, tremble in the depths of their souls, and become truly afraid. These are the manger and the cross of Jesus Christ....No priest, no theologian stood at the cradle of Bethlehem. And yet, all Christian theology finds its beginnings in the miracle of miracles, that God became human.

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  Christian, Jesus, Powerful

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Jana Riess, O. C. Dean, Jr. (2010). “God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas”

• The messengers of Jesus will be hated to the end of time. They will be blamed for all the division which rend cities and homes. Jesus and his disciples will be condemned on all sides for undermining family life, and for leading the nation astray; they will be called crazy fanatics and disturbers of the peace. The disciples will be sorely tempted to desert their Lord. But the end is also near, and they must hold on and persevere until it comes. Only he will be blessed who remains loyal to Jesus and his word until the end.

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  Jesus, Crazy, Blessed

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

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  Jesus, Grace, Christ

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

• But they all stood beneath the cross, enemies and believers, doubters and cowards, revilers and devoted followers. His prayer, in that hour, and his forgiveness, was meant for them all, and for all their sins. The mercy and love of God are at work even in the midst of his enemies. It is the same Jesus Christ, who of his grace calls us to follow him, and whose grace saves the murderer who mocks him on the cross in his last hour.

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  Jesus, Prayer, Grace

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.34, 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

• To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Suffering, Tragedy

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1998). “Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Writings”

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

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  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.

• And if we ask how are we to know where our hearts are, the answer is just as simple - everything which hinders us from loving God above all things and acts as a barrier between ourselves and our obedience to Jesus is our treasure, and the place where our heart is.

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  Jesus, Heart, Simple

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.120, SCM Press

• Only the man who follows the command of Jesus single-mindedly, and unresistingly lets his yoke rest upon him, finds his burden easy, and under its gentle pressure receives the power to persevere in the right way. The command of Jesus is hard, unutterably hard, for those who try to resist it. But for those who willingly submit, the yoke is easy, and the burden is light.

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  Jesus, Men, Light

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.33, SCM Press

• 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.

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  Jesus, Real, Responsibility

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

• 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.

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  Jesus, Prayer, Heart

• Every word of Holy Scripture was a love letter from God directed very personally to us and he asked us whether we loved Jesus.

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  Jesus, Letters, Scripture

• Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts about the other person, to realize his shortcomings, but only to the extent that it offers to me an occasion for forgiveness and unconditional love, as Jesus proves to me.

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  Jesus, Unconditional Love, Judgement

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

• If Christ has been given us, if we are called to his discipleship we are given all things, literally _all_ things. He will see to it that they are added unto us. If we follow Jesus and look only to His righteousness, we are in his hands and under the protection of Him and His Father. And if we are in communion with the Father, nought can harm us. God will help us in the hour of need, and He knows our needs.

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  Jesus, Father, Hands

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

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  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.

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  Christian, Jesus, Mean

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

• 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.

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  Jesus, Community, Christ

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

• 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.

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  Jesus, Real, Evil

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

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