I saw that I had already a quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer before while putting in the Luther one on my quotes blog so naturally I got curious about who this guy is. Still don't know much about him since I just merely skimmed through his wikipedia article, but looks interesting. I think I recall pastor tim quoting yet another one of his quotes before and 'the cost of discipleship' is a book he wrote which I believe I have heard it somewhere before. Might check it out further soon.
Meanwhile:
“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.”
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
“Jesus Christ lived in the midst of his enemies. At the end all his disciples deserted him. On the Cross he was utterly alone, surrounded by evildoers and mockers. For this cause he had come, to bring peace to the enemies of God. So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work. 'The kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to be of the Kingdom of Christ; he wants to be among friends, to sit among roses and lilies, not with the bad people but the devout people. O you blasphemers and betrayers of Christ! If Christ had done what you are doing who would ever have been spared'?”
“Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession.... Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.”
“When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.”
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