Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost Of Discipleship Quotes

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

The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.

Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.

When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.

Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.

Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.

the world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.

Whenever Christ calls us, his call leads us to death.

[Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality.

It is a wicked sophistry to justify the worldliness of the Church by the cross of Christ.

Justification is the new creation of the new man, and sanctification his preservation until the day of Jesus Christ.

The temple of God is the holy people in Jesus Christ. The Body of Christ is the living temple of God and of the new humanity.

It is a costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life.

Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of the church

By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

Suffering, then, is the badge of true discipleship. The disciple is not above his master. Following Christ means passio passiva, suffering because we have to suffer.

The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ

Through the medium of prayer we go to our enemy, stand by his side, and plead for him to God.

Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.