Bonhoeffer Discipleship Quotes

#1. The body is reached through the spirit. First you have to heal the soul. Then you can work on the body.

Mahtob Mahmoody

#2. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate. Costly

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#3. Faith is the 'yes' of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one's life.

Martin Luther

#4. Back in 1917, when Einstein had analyzed the "cosmological considerations" arising from his general theory of relativity, most astronomers thought that the universe consisted only of our Milky Way, floating with its 100 billion or so stars in a void of empty space.

Walter Isaacson

#5. After death something new begins, over which all powers of the world of death have no more might.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#8. The figure of the crucified invalidates all thought which takes success for its standard.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#9. The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything can be had for nothing.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#10. Once you start splitting hairs, trying to convince yourself some things are more acceptable to destroy, you've already lost the most important war.

Karen Marie Moning

#11. So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#12. The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old but a life of uncompromising discipleship, following Christ according to the sermon on the mount. I believe the time has come to gather people together to do this.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#13. Discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#14. Though slavery is thought, by some, to be mild in Missouri, when compared with the cotton, sugar and rice growing states, yet no part of our slave-holding country is more noted for the barbarity of its inhabitants than St. Louis.

William Wells Brown

#15. I always have the feeling we are merely fearfully trying to save room for God; I would rather speak of God at the center than at the limits, in strength rather than weakness, and thus in human life and goodness rather than in death and guilt.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#16. Discipleship can tolerate no conditions which might come between Jesus and our obedience to him.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#17. The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#18. Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#19. Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of the church

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#20. (Bonhoeffer's) change was not an ungainly, embarrassing leap from which he would have to retreat slightly when he gained more maturity and perspective. It was by all accounts a deepening consistent with what had gone before.

Eric Metaxas

#21. Salvation is free, but discipleship will cost you your life

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#22. There is a reason behind life. There is some connectivity between living beings. Whether you want to call that 'God' or 'The Force' or whatever word you use for it, I do believe in a spiritualized mechanism.

Damon Lindelof

#23. All I did was go to the library to borrow some books

Haruki Murakami

#24. Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#25. What was most striking about the Obama speech in Berlin was not anything he said so much as the alternative reality it fostered: many American children have never before seen huge crowds turn out abroad to wave American flags instead of burn them.

Frank Rich

#26. I did so want to hear a singer. I miss the sound of a woman's voice, the way they look and smell.

J.A. Willoughby

#27. 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.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer