Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

... the thing that kept Christ on that cross was love, not the nail.

The Cross will be for us as it was for Christ: proof of the greatest love.

Let us live no more to ourselves, but to Him who loved us, and gave Himself to die for us.

He [Jesus] has no need of our works but only of our love.

If you have never felt or known the sheer power and strength of God's love, take another look at Jesus dying on the cross.

The blood that poured from Christ's wounds bought your salvation. If you want to truly value what He did, think of Him hanging on that cross just for you. With that thought in your mind, consider how you should live. He gave Himself freely for you; are you giving yourself fully to Him?

The love of our Lord Jesus Christ towards sinners is strikingly shown in His steady purpose of heart to die for them.

True love, unlike popular sentimental substitutes, is willing to suffer. Love is not "luv." Love is the cross. Our problem at first, the sheer problem of suffering, was a cross without Christ. We must never fall into the opposite and equal trap of a Christ without a cross.

Jesus gives his life for the congregation, not the other way around.

Out of love for His Father and for us, He allowed Himself to suffer beyond the capacity of mortal man. He told us some of what that infinite sacrifice required of Him.

Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.

God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.

Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ.

A cross borne in simplicity, without the interference of self-love to augment it, is only half a cross. Suffering in this simplicity of love, we are not only happy in spile of the cross, but because of it; for love is pleased in suffering for the Well Beloved, and the cross which forms us into His image is a consoling bond of love.

The only reason you can love God or anybody else is because God first loved you. And he showed that love by sending Jesus Christ to Earth to die for you.

Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!

God has loved you since before you were born-so much so that 2,000 years ago, He sent His Son Jesus to die in your place.

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

The measure of all love is its giving. The measure of the love of God is the cross of Christ.

It was love that motivated His self-emptying, that led Him to become a little lower than angels, to be subject to parents, to bow His head beneath the Baptist's hands, to endure the weakness of the flesh, and to submit to death even upon the cross

The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.

Never forget what Jesus did for you. Never take lightly what it cost Him. And never assume that if it cost Him His very life, that it won't also cost you yours.

Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!

Look at the cross and you will know what one soul means to Jesus.

Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.