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 grace christ
Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.
christian community grace
It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren.
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.
self judging grace
Self-justification and judging others go together, as justification by grace and serving others go together.
grace discipleship christian-discipleship
Cheap grace is grace without discipleship.
fighting grace enemy
Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
christian grace and-love
The gift of Christ is not the Christian religion, but the grace and love of God which culminate in the cross.
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.
jesus prayer grace
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.
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.
children grace only-child
God cleanses and sanctifies us, comes to us with grace and love. God makes us happy, as only children can be happy.
essence grace discipleship
The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything can be had for nothing.
grace needs earth
We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there he still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace.