But For Me the Beginning of Life.

"Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession.... Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate." — Dietrich Bonhoeffer (The Cost of Discipleship)

"Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace." — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die." — Dietrich Bonhoeffer (The Cost of Discipleship)

"Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will." — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ." — Dietrich Bonhoeffer (The Cost of Discipleship)

"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility." — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol" — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others." — Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Letters and Papers from Prison)

"There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler." — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"I discovered later, and I'm still discovering right up to this moment, that is it only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith. By this-worldliness I mean living unreservedly in life's duties, problems, successes and failures. In so doing we throw ourselves completely into the arms of God, taking seriously, not our own sufferings, but those of God in the world. That, I think, is faith."
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer