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

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DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
Christ took upon himself this human form of ours. He became Man even as we are men. In his humanity ...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
The cross always simultaneously means rejection, and that the disgrace of suffering is part of the c...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
The cross is not the suffering tied to being natural existence, but the suffering tied to being Chri...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
For the rest of mankind to be with Christ means death, but for Christians it is a means of grace. Ba...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.' These men without possessions or power, thes...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again and again, the gift which must be as...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.' Not only do ...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
If Christ has been given us, if we are called to his discipleship we are given all things, literally...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
And if we ask how are we to know where our hearts are, the answer is just as simple - everything whi...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh ...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
The real difference in the believer who follows Christ and has mortified his will and died after the...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiratio...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegianc...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
The task is not to turn the world upside down but in a given place to do what, from the perspecive o...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
Bless them that persecute you.' If our enemy cannot put up with us any longer and takes to cursing u...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by lovin...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
In the New Testament our enemies are those who harbour hostility against us, not those against whom ...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only Him who goes before a...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spir...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is alwa...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following cen...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
We shall be judged according to our works – this is why we are exhorted to do good works. The Bibl...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
[God says] Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend - it must transcend all comprehens...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
Upon closer observation, it becomes apparent that every strong upsurge of power in the public sphere...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
As Christians, we needn’t be at all ashamed of some impatience, longing, opposition to what is unn...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the sa...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard pe...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
In other times it may have been the business of Christianity to champion the equality of all men; it...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
Life in a prison cell may well be compared to Advent; one waits, hopes, and does this, that, or the ...
DIETRECH BONHOEFFER
Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
MARLENE DIETRICH
Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they don't like him.
MARLENE DIETRICH
America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my hear...
MARLENE DIETRICH
The most dangerous thing for a branded product is low interest.
DIETRICH MATESCHITZ
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
MARLENE DIETRICH
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with mu...
MARLENE DIETRICH
To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can...
MARLENE DIETRICH
Do let him read the papers. But not while you accusingly tiptoe around the room, or perch much like ...
MARLENE DIETRICH
A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an ...
MARLENE DIETRICH
There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you we...
MARLENE DIETRICH
Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
MARLENE DIETRICH
Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
MARLENE DIETRICH
Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Don't call us,...
MARLENE DIETRICH
Sleeping alone, except under doctor's orders, does much harm. Children will tell you how lonely it i...
MARLENE DIETRICH
A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the...
MARLENE DIETRICH
The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
MARLENE DIETRICH
Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.
MARLENE DIETRICH
Gentleman. A man who buys two of the same morning paper from the doorman of his favorite nightclub w...
MARLENE DIETRICH
Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
MARLENE DIETRICH
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with mu...
MARLENE DIETRICH
In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact.
MARLENE DIETRICH
The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with be...
MARLENE DIETRICH
Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw thems...
MARLENE DIETRICH