Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes About Jesus Christ

Quotes about: Jesus Christ

• 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.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  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.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Son, Israel

  "Life Together".

• 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.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Jesus, Powerful

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

• 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

• 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.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  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.

  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.

• 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

• 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.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Community, Christ

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

• 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

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  Christian, Jesus, Morning

• 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.

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  Jesus, Believe, Firsts

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

• But discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ...Christ speaks to us exactly as he spoke to them. It was not as though they first recognized him as the Christ and then received his command. They believed his word and command and recognized him as the Christ--in that order.

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  Jesus, Order, Decision

• In Jesus Christ we have been chosen from eternity, accepted in time, and united for eternity.

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  Jesus, Christ, Eternity

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.11, 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

• If Jesus Christ is not true God, how could he help us? If he is not true man, how could he help us?

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  Jesus, Men, Helping

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Edwin Hanton Robertson (1973). “True patriotism; 1939-45: from the collected works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer”

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

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Important, Facts

• It is not simply to be taken for granted that the Christian has the privilege of living among other Christians. Jesus Christ lived in the midst of his enemies.
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  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.

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  Christian, Jesus, Taken

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.7, SCM Press

• Discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Decision, Action

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.166, 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

• 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.

• The Psalter is the prayer book of Jesus Christ in the truest sense of the word. He prayed the Psalter and now it has become his prayer for all time...we understand how the Psalter can be prayer to God and yet God's own Word, precisely because here we encounter the praying Christ...because those who pray the psalms are joining in with the prayer of Jesus Christ, their prayer reaches the ears of God. Christ has become their intercessor.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Prayer, Book

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