Quotes About Redemption

The gospel belongs to all people because it belongs to sinners.

Cheap grace therefore amounts to a denial of the living Word of God, in fact, a denial of the Incarnation of the Word of God. Cheap

That is what we mean by cheap grace, the grace which amounts to the justification of sin without the justification of the repentant sinner who departs from sin and from whom sin departs.

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

If God loved the world, the whole fallen creation, then he gave us no preference over others. He loved my worst enemy no less than he loved me. Jesus Christ died for his and our enemies.

This cheap grace has been no less disastrous to our own spiritual lives. Instead of opening up the way to Christ it has closed it. Instead of calling us to follow Christ, it has hardened us in our disobedience.

What is the power of Christ? It is the hidden, secret power of the cross and of suffering.

As Christ is Christ only as the suffering and rejected one, so the disciple is a disciple only as one who suffers and is rejected, as one crucified with Jesus.

The source of their faith lies in the once-and-for-allness of Christ's death, which they have experienced in their baptism.

the only visible sign of God in the world is the cross.

where the cross stands, the resurrection is near.

Authority rests upon his shoulders" (Isa. 9:6).

We can now continue to follow the Bible in answering the question "What is love?" Love is the reconciliation of man with God in Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ in his word must be our death and our life.

it was Dietrich Bonhoeffer who more than anybody else realized that nothing less than a return to the Christian faith could save Germany.

Those who have found God in the cross of Jesus Christ know how wonderfully God hides himself in this world

The Christian is the man who no longer seeks his salvation, his deliverance, his justification in himself, but in Jesus Christ alone. He knows that God's Word in Jesus Christ pronounces him guilty, even when he does not feel his guilt, and God's Word in Jesus Christ pronounces him not guilty and righteous, even when he does not feel that he is righteous at all.

Christ is knocking. It's still not Christmas, but it's also still not the great last Advent, the last coming of Christ.

Forgiveness is the Christlike suffering which it is the Christian's duty to bear.

Death cannot keep back love; love is stronger than death. The meaning of Good Friday and Easter Sunday is that God's path to human beings leads back to God.11 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, "Lectures to the Congregation in Barcelona

Wir gehören einander allein durch und in Jesus Christus. Was heißt das? Es heißt erstens, dass ein Christ den andern braucht um Jesu Christi willen. Es heißt zweitens, dass ein Christ zum andern nur durch Jesus Christus kommt. Es heißt drittens, dass wir in Jesus Christus von Ewigkeit her erwählt, in der Zeit angenommen und für die Ewigkeit vereinigt sind.

the gift of Christ is not the Christian religion but the grace and love of God, which culminate in the cross.

Jesus does not tell us what we ought to do but cannot; he tells us what God has given us and promises still to give.

Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.