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The Cost of Discipleship
by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
This is a book you do not read only once. Those of us on "the Way" need to come back to it again and again and learn from this true martyr the way of discipleship. (Rereading again in 2021.)
"When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die." (p. 89)
"They [disciples] must not fear men. Men can do them no harm, for the power of men ceases with the death o the body. but they must overcome the fear of death with the fear of
God. . . . Those who are still afraid of men have no fear of God, and those who have fear of God have ceased to be afraid of men. All preachers of the gospel will do well to recollect this saying daily." (p. 218)
"God's love for man is altogether diferent from the love of men for their own flesh and blood. God's love for man means the cross and the way of discipleship. But that cross and that way are both life and resurrection." (219)
"The object of Jesus' command is always the same -- to evoke wholehearted faith, to make us love God and our neighbor with all our heart and soul. This is the only unequivocal feature in his command. Every time we try to perform the commandment of Jesus in some other sense, it is another sign that we have misunderstood his word and are disobeying it." (229)
"When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die." (p. 89)
"They [disciples] must not fear men. Men can do them no harm, for the power of men ceases with the death o the body. but they must overcome the fear of death with the fear of
God. . . . Those who are still afraid of men have no fear of God, and those who have fear of God have ceased to be afraid of men. All preachers of the gospel will do well to recollect this saying daily." (p. 218)
"God's love for man is altogether diferent from the love of men for their own flesh and blood. God's love for man means the cross and the way of discipleship. But that cross and that way are both life and resurrection." (219)
"The object of Jesus' command is always the same -- to evoke wholehearted faith, to make us love God and our neighbor with all our heart and soul. This is the only unequivocal feature in his command. Every time we try to perform the commandment of Jesus in some other sense, it is another sign that we have misunderstood his word and are disobeying it." (229)