Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

The first step to eternal life is you have to die.

Every call of Christ leads into death.

To identify with the death of Jesus Christ means that we must die to everything that was never a part of Him.

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

Let us die as soon as possible, and by whatever process God shall appoint. And when we are dead to the world, and nature, and self, we shall begin to live to God.

Everybody wants to go to heaven but very few people are willing to die.

Live in Christ, die in Christ, and the flesh need not fear death.

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Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is the conquering of death.

Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fiber of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. . . look to Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

Christians know that Christianity is simply extended training in dying early. That is what we have always been about.

I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once.

I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist.

Jesus viewed his own destiny - to be glorified in and through death - as an expression of a kind of cosmic principle: the pathway to life runs through death.

A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.

That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices.

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.

Christ died for the truth.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

I think the membrane - I say that the membrane between life and death is perilously thin. And I do think the story of Jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives.

If you come back from the dead, you don't have the same value system, I think.

In order to mount to the Cross, the summit of sacrifice, and to God, the summit of immateriality, Christ passed through all the stages which the man who struggles passes through.

The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

There is no way of salvation except through the cross of Christ.