Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

Trust in the power of Christ’s Cross! Receive his reconciling grace and share it!

I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation.

Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins.

I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too... Hold fast to Christ.

The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.

Repentance will not make you see Christ; but to see Christ will give you repentance.

Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair.

It is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but His hold of you.

I [will] not go to heaven because I am a preacher. I am going to heaven entirely on the merit of the work of Christ.

Theres some inherently unique characteristics of Christianity, the chief of which is that Christianity teaches that we are saved by what Christ has done for us, instead of we are saved by what we do for God.

Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.

Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.

The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.

We will not attain a state of perfection in this life, but we can and should press forward with faith in Christ along the strait and narrow path and make steady progress toward our eternal destiny.

If we are interested in Christ by faith, notwithstanding our imperfections and sins, God will be our God through grace.

I put myself in the hands of Christ, who is the true leader of the church.

The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is one who has found the right road.

Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.

May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.

To be like Christ is to be a Christian.

The more that you come to know Jesus for who He really is, loving Him is not a problem.

We love Jesus and want to share Him.

There is absolutely no power in our human effort to live holy. It is only by His grace. And the result of receiving grace is we get better at living like Christ, which is something we all want, right?

If we may not remain silent about evil in the Church, then neither should we keep silent about the great shining path of goodness and purity which the Christian faith has traced out over the course of the centuries.

Your identity is not wrapped up in how right you get it or how perfect you can posture yourself. But, your identity is wrapped up in the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ.