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Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of the church

Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of the church
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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  1. Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  2. Scripture was given to the church, and theology is a necessary work of the church, by the church, in the church, and for the church. – Kenneth S Kantzer
  3. Where a people prays, there is the hurch; and where the church is; there is never loneliness. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  4. Freedom for the Church comes from the necessity of the Word of God. Otherwise, it becomes arbitrariness and ends in a great many new ties. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  5. It is a wicked sophistry to justify the worldliness of the Church by the cross of Christ. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  6. Through the medium of prayer we go to our enemy, stand by his side, and plead for him to God. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  7. The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  8. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  9. It is a costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  10. Maxim 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy’s enemy. No more. No less.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries – Howard Tayler
  11. If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  12. Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  13. Whenever Christ calls us, his call leads us to death. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  14. It is not your love that sustains the marriage,but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  15. Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  16. If we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could make something else responsible. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  17. Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  18. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  19. My past life is abundantly full of God’s mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  20. Or is what remains in me like a defeated army,Fleeing in disarray from victory already won? – Bonhoeffer Dietrich
  21. The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  22. We should never argue with the devil about our sins, but we should speak about our sins only with Jesus. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  23. Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  24. The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  25. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  26. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  27. The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall into Jesus’ hands. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  28. The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  29. We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  30. Only he who cries out for the persecuted Jews can sing Gregorian chants. -“ Dietrich Bonhoeffer – Jen Pollock Michel
  31. God loves his work and therefore wills to preserve it. Creation and preservation are two aspects of the one activity of God. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  32. Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  33. 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. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  34. Justification is the new creation of the new man, and sanctification his preservation until the day of Jesus Christ. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  35. After death something new begins, over which all powers of the world of death have no more might. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  36. The figure of the crucified invalidates all thought which takes success for its standard. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  37. [Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  38. Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  39. Advent creates people, new people. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  40. Morality does not come to this mortal world from some imaginary paradise. It rises from the neurons of mortal humans. – Abhijit Naskar

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