Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

When it comes to Christ, you've got to do the same. Call him crazy, or crown him as king. Dismiss him as a fraud, or declare him to be God. Walk away from him, or bow before him, but don't play games with him.

Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.

Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.

Discipleship, following Jesus Christ is the toughest thing that you're going do in your whole life. You're not going to find anything tougher.

Our deepest joy comes from Christ: remaining with him, walking with him, being his disciples.

Follow Christ for His own sake, if you follow Him at all.

My order of priorities reflects the level of my commitment to Christ. Whoever or whatever is in first place, if it isn't the Lord Jesus, is in the wrong place.

If you believe, take the first step, it leads to Jesus Christ. If you don't believe, take the first step all the same, for you are bidden to take it.

Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

Being a disciple of Jesus Christ is not an effort of once a week or once a day. It is an effort of once and for all.

Kyle Idleman’s Not a Fan is a crucial message for our time. It’s a powerful call to commitment and to following Jesus with all our hearts that has challenged me in the best of ways!

But discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ...Christ speaks to us exactly as he spoke to them. It was not as though they first recognized him as the Christ and then received his command. They believed his word and command and recognized him as the Christ--in that order.

Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

Seeing & savoring Jesus Christ is the most important seeing and savoring you'll ever do.

You can be a follower of Jesus and not necessarily be a Christian.

They do not walk in... the path of Christ.

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

To be like Christ is to be a Christian.

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.

I tell people, and it's the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won't make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won't make you a servant of Christ.

Everything I do is deeply rooted in my faith and especially in Jesus Christ.

I started really believing and understanding what it meant to be a follower of Jesus when I was probably in high school sometime. From there, just trying to draw on my faith since then.

I fell in love with Jesus, and I'm still in love. Amen!