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“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“A God who let us prove His existence would be an idol”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
“Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
“When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
“Music… will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison
“There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“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, The Cost of Discipleship
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Just an FYI, the quote “Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God’s will” is actually from Bonhoeffer’s biographer Eric Metaxas, on page 486 of his book _Bonhoeffer:Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy_ (http://www.ericmetaxas.com/blog/bonhoeffer-never-said-that-eric-metaxas-did/). Thanks for the list!
Thanks for the correction…. I will make it “Eleven Great Bonhoeffer quotes“…. HeHe.