Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

I marvel to think that the Son of God would condescend to save us, as imperfect, impure, mistake-prone, and ungrateful as we often are. I have tried to understand the Savior's Atonement with my finite mind, and the only explanation I can come up with is this: God loves us deeply, perfectly, and everlastingly.

The cross shows us the seriousness of our sin-but it also shows us the immeasurable love of God.

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

I just want people to know out there no matter what they've done, God doesn't judge us on how many sins. God is there for us. He loves us. He wants us to turn it over to Him.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'

Remember on your best day that Jesus had to die for you. Remember on your worst day that he did.

I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.

Jesus Lord, kind Pelican, Cleanse my filth with Thy blood, One drop of which can save The whole world from all its sin

The saving love of God is his doing whatever must be done, at great cost to himself, and for the least deserving, so that he might enthrall them with what will make them supremely happy forever, namely, himself.

God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.

I would like everyone to feel loved by the God who gave his son for us and showed us his boundless love. I want everyone to feel the joy of being Christian.

The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us.

Jesus, Son of the Eternal God, have mercy on me.

At the cross, God was punishing Jesus for the sins of the world. God's justice required a penalty from sinners, and in his unspeakable love, he paid the penalty himself in the person of his crucified Son.

I'm telling you, God loves a lot of people.

God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world.

Who can measure the love Christ felt for a lost world, as he hung upon the cross, suffering for the sins of guilty men? This love was immeasurable. It was infinite.

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

No matter how bad you mess up, God loves you, and there's nothing you can do about it.

The cross is the place where, and the means by which, God loved us to the uttermost.

Grace is the love of God shown to the unlovely. It is God reaching downward to people who are in rebellion against him.

Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree. Look up to the cross, and you will kill sin, for the strength of Jesus' love will make you strong to put down your tendencies to sin.

If you have never felt or known the sheer power and strength of God's love, take another look at Jesus dying on the cross.

God led Jesus to a cross, not a crown, and yet that cross ultimately proved to be the gateway to freedom and forgiveness for every sinner in the world.

Dost thou understand me, sinful soul? He wrestled with justice, that thou mightest have rest; He wept and mourned, that thou mightest laugh and rejoice; He was betrayed, that thou mightest go free; was apprehended, that thou mightest escape; He was condemned, that thou mightest be justified; and was killed, that thou mightest live; He wore a crown of thorns, that thou mightest wear a crown of glory; and was nailed to the cross, with His arms wide open, to show with what freeness all His merits shall be bestowed on the coming soul; and how heartily He will receive it into His bosom?