Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

You might say, 'Can't we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?' In this way we'd become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

Many think that the price of discipleship is too costly and too burdensome. For some, it involves giving up too much. But the cross is not as heavy as it appears to be. Through obedience, we acquire much greater strength to carry it.

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

I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed, opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.

I want to take my life and the time I have on this earth to try to tell others about Jesus, that Jesus Christ is God's son who took our sins to the Cross and shed His blood for our sins.

It's all about Jesus.

There is nothing more certain in Time or Eternity than what Jesus Christ did on the Cross.

Cheap grace is grace without discipleship.

It is impossible for a man to be a Christian without having Christ; and if he has Christ he has at the same time all that is in Christ.

The first lesson in Christ's school is self-denial.

If you ignore every single thing Jesus told you to do, you are just auditing. You're not a Christian.

Every day I get a choice. I can choose to go God's way or I can choose to go my own way or Satan's way or if I walk out of this door I don't know that I blame myself if my choice. .. because the bottom line is I want what I want what I want. ... People ask me what the greatest sin is. I feel the greatest sin is to want to be God: Pride, I want my own way. What it means to be a follower of Jesus Christ - give as much of yourself as you understand to as much of Jesus as you understand at that moment.

Jesus' call to commitment is clear: He wants all or nothing.

When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

Seeing & savoring Jesus Christ is the most important seeing and savoring you'll ever do.

Jesus gave his life on the cross for any who will believe. We're not redeemed by silver or gold. Jesus paid for it with his blood.

The kids look at me, 'Ah, you're my hero.' I want to teach those kids. 'Hey listen, God is my hero. He died on the cross for my sins, and He's the one. That's how I wanna live - like Him - and I want you guys to do the same thing.

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

Judas heard all Christ's sermons.

Anything so precious as the gospel of Jesus Christ is worthy of all the effort and sacrifice of time and means employed to teach it.

Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

Christians are nonviolent not, therefore, because we believe that nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but because nonviolence is constitutive of what it means to be a disciple to Jesus.

God lives. I know that He lives. I know that Jesus is the Christ and the Redeemer of the world.