Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes About Obedience

Quotes about: Obedience

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  One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Godly, Christian Inspirational, Christianity

• Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Faith, Believe, Obedience

• Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Believe, Men, Obedience

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.23, SCM Press

• You can only learn what obedience is by obeying

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Obedience, Obeying

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

• 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.

• 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.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Heart, Simple

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

• There is no way to peace along the way of safety. For peace must be dared. It is itself the great venture and can never be safe. Peace is the opposite of security. To demand guarantees is to want to protect oneself. Peace means giving oneself completely to God's commandment. Wanting no security, but in faith and obedience laying the destiny of the nations in the hand of almighty God. Not trying to direct it for selfish purposes. Battles are won not with weapons, but with God. They are won when the way leads to the cross.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Selfish, Mean, Destiny

• Faith without works is not faith at all, but a simple lack of obedience to God.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Simple, Obedience, Obedience To God

• Faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Real, Obedience

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.21, SCM Press

• Struggling against the legalism of simple obedience, we end by setting up the most dangerous law of all, the law of the world and the law of grace. In our effort to combat legalism we land ourselves in the worst kind of legalism. The only way of overcoming this legalism is by real obedience to Christ when he calls us to follow him; for in Jesus the law is at once fulfilled and cancelled.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Real, Struggle

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

• 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.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Mean, Simple

• The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Hero, Son, Pay

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.32, SCM Press

• 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

• It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Men, Suffering, Obedience

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