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“The God-man who is humiliated is the stumbling block to the pious human being and to the human being, period.”
― Stephen J. Nichols, Bonhoeffer on the Christian Life: From the Cross, for the World

“We could summarize all of this background to Bonhoeffer’s christology in one sentence, albeit a complex one: The cross was a stumbling block to the Romans; the cross was a stumbling block to the Nazis; the cross was a stumbling block to moderns; and—unless we are humbled and brought low beneath the cross to see its power and beauty—the cross can be a stumbling block to us.”
― Stephen J. Nichols, Bonhoeffer on the Christian Life: From the Cross, for the World

“it is not an overstatement to say, as Paul sees things, that at the core of their being, in the deepest recesses of who they are—in other words, in “the inner self”—believers will never be more resurrected than they already are. God has done a work in each believer, a work of nothing less than resurrection proportions, that will not be undone.”
― Richard B. Jr. Gaffin, By Faith, Not by Sight: Paul and the Order of Salvation

“is 100 percent the work of God and, just for that reason, it is to engage 100 percent of the activity of the believer.”
― Richard B. Jr. Gaffin, By Faith, Not by Sight: Paul and the Order of Salvation