In Jesus Christ we have been chosen from eternity, accepted in time, and united for eternity.
Dietrich BonhoefferThe will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
Dietrich BonhoefferIn the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence.
Dietrich BonhoefferNothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in oneโs community back from the path of sin.
Dietrich BonhoefferBut 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.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer