“God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises, leading us along the best and straightest paths to Himself.”1
“When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.”
“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.”
“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.”
“Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.”
“As a fresh start, the church should give away all her endowments to the poor and needy.”
“To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.”
“You can only learn what obedience is by obeying.”
“Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.”
“A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world.”
“One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.”
“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God…..We must not…..assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.”
“It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.”
“Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.”
“God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.”
“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.”
“Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are ever advancing towards it.”
“The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ.”
“Your life as a Christian should make nonbelievers question their disbelief in God.”
“The Church is the Church only when it exists for others.”
1 All of these quotes are from the websites below:
37 Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes | ChristianQuotes.info
Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes (Author of The Cost of Discipleship)