Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom, the good thief said from his cross (Luke 23:42). There are perhaps no more human words in all of Scripture, no prayer we can pray so well.

Jesus died for our sins," Noah says solemnly. "What?!?" I reply, choking back my thoughts. "I was just seeing if you were listening.

The gospel tells that our Judge has become our Savior.

Jesus suffered deeply because He loves us deeply! He wants us to repent and be converted so that He can fully heal us.

It was not the volume of sin that sent Christ to the cross; it was the fact of sin.

Jesus came to save us from our own sins.

No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

When the Lord Jesus Christ gives a man remission of sins, He also gives him repentance.

I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.

As I read the New Testament, I find only one path to salvation - the path of an informed faith in Jesus Christ.

To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.

Can human hearts be changed? Why, of course! It happens every day in the great missionary work of the Church. It is one of the most widespread of Christ's modern miracles. If it hasn't happened to you - it should.

I repented at 28 and turned to Jesus.

I'm going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: 'Lord, remember me.'

There is no better news, than the fact that Jesus can actually turn a life upside down and save it.

But dogs, which have no ability to sin nor moral conscience, do not have an ability to reject Jesus.

I'd like to thank Jesus. He's the one who changed my life.

Let your tears fall because of sin; but, at the same time, let the eye of faith steadily behold the Son of man lifted up, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, that those who are bitten by the old serpent may look unto Jesus and live. Our sinnership is that emptiness into which the Lord pours his mercy.

Since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Savior. He became like us, so we could become like Him.

Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree. Look up to the cross, and you will kill sin, for the strength of Jesus' love will make you strong to put down your tendencies to sin.

Christianity is, above all other religions ever known, a religion of sacrifice. It is a religion founded on the greatest of all sacrifices, the sacrifice of the Incarnation, culminating in the sacrifice on Calvary.

Jesus has done everything for you.

When you hear of a notorious sinner, instead of thinking you do well to be angry, beg of Jesus Christ to convert, and make him a monument of his free grace.

Good people don't go to heaven. Forgiven people go to heaven.

God led Jesus to a cross, not a crown, and yet that cross ultimately proved to be the gateway to freedom and forgiveness for every sinner in the world.