Shepherd's Notes--Bonhoeffer's the Cost of Discipleship Quotes

“Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.” No rights they might claim protect this community of strangers in the world. Nor do they claim any such rights, for they are the meek, who renounce all rights of their own for the sake of Jesus Christ. When they are berated, they are quiet. When violence is done to them, they endure it. When they are cast out, they yield. [21] They do not sue for their rights; they do not make a scene when injustice is done them. They do not want rights of their own. They want to leave all justice to God; non cupidi vindictae [not desirous of vengeance] [22] is the interpretation of the early church. What is right for their Lord should be right for them. Only that.”
― Rodney Combs, Shepherd's Notes--Bonhoeffer's the Cost of Discipleship

“The call that establishes the way of discipleship is the call to follow a person, Jesus. It is not a call to follow some abstract theology or doctrinal statement. Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.”
― Rodney Combs, Shepherd's Notes--Bonhoeffer's the Cost of Discipleship

“Belief and Obedience “Only he who believes is obedient,...only he who is obedient believes” (ch. 2).”
― Rodney Combs, Shepherd's Notes--Bonhoeffer's the Cost of Discipleship

“in receiving grace, he became subject to absolute obedience of Christ. Luther said that grace alone can save; but those words were always spoken in correlation with the obligation of discipleship, of obedience to Jesus.”
― Rodney Combs, Shepherd's Notes--Bonhoeffer's the Cost of Discipleship

“It is a chief enemy of the church. Cheap grace is “grace without price; grace without cost!” Many believe that the essence of grace is that the account has been paid in full in advance and therefore everything can be had for nothing.”
― Rodney Combs, Shepherd's Notes--Bonhoeffer's the Cost of Discipleship

“It became clear to me that the life of a servant of Jesus Christ must belong to the Church, and step by step it became clearer to me how far that must go.”
― Rodney Combs, Shepherd's Notes--Bonhoeffer's the Cost of Discipleship

“Being saved by discipleship is not a human possibility, but for God all things are possible.”
― Rodney Combs, Shepherd's Notes--Bonhoeffer's the Cost of Discipleship

“Faith is possible only in this new state of existence created by obedience.”
― Rodney Combs, Shepherd's Notes--Bonhoeffer's the Cost of Discipleship

“Discipleship is not a human offer. The call alone creates the situation.”
― Rodney Combs, Shepherd's Notes--Bonhoeffer's the Cost of Discipleship