Cheap Grace Quotes:

When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

topic: Godly, Men, Christ, Cheap Grace, Christian Fellowship

Cheap grace is the idea that "grace" did it all for me so I do not need to change my lifestyle. The believer who accepts the idea of "cheap grace" thinks he can continue to live like the rest of the world. Instead of following Christ in a radical way, the Christian lost in cheap grace thinks he can simply enjoy the consolations of his grace.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

topic: Christian, Thinking, Following Christ, Cheap Grace

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

source: Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2001). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.4, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

topic: Jesus, Discipline, Grace, Christian Living, Cheap Grace

Costly grace is the treasure hidden in the field; for the sake of it a man will gladly go and sell all he has. It is the pearl of great price to by which the merchant will sell all his goods.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

source: Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.4, SCM Press

topic: Men, Grace, Treasure, Cheap Grace

A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses. I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me. His face, that hitherto may have been strange and intolerable to me, is transformed in intercession into the countenance of a brother for whom Christ died, the face of a forgiven sinner.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

topic: Christian, Brother, Hate, Life Together, Cheap Grace

The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything can be had for nothing.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

source: Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.3, SCM Press

topic: Essence, Grace, Discipleship, Cheap Grace

Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

source: Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.5, SCM Press

topic: Men, Doors, Grace, Cheap Grace

Let us trust in Him who has placed this burden upon us. What we ourselves cannot bear let us bear with the help of Christ. For He is all-powerful, and He tells us: 'My yoke is easy, and my burden light.'

- Saint Boniface

topic: Powerful, Light, Yoke, King James Bible, Stress And Anxiety

Christ did not suffer and die to offer cheap grace. Jesus did not go willingly to the cross so we could have an easy life or offer a faith built on easy-believism. As someone once said, 'Salvation is free, but not cheap.' It cost Jesus His life.

- Billy Graham

topic: Jesus, Grace, Suffering, Cheap Grace

We have suffered from the preaching of cheap grace. Grace is free, but it is not cheap. People will take anything that is free, but they are not interested in discipleship. They will take Christ as Savior but not as Lord.

- Vance Havner

topic: People, Grace, Christ, Cheap Grace

Cheap grace replaces truth with tolerance, lowering the bar so everyone can jump over it and we can all feel good about ourselves.

- Randy Alcorn

topic: Feel Good, Tolerance, Grace, Cheap Grace

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

topic: Gratitude, Grateful, Giving, Cheap Grace

Do not think that your crying and complaints can force Jesus to become sentimental and then give Himself out so cheaply.

- T. B. Joshua

topic: Jesus, Thinking, Giving, Cheap Grace

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

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

topic: Fighting, Grace, Enemy, Cheap Grace

The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

source: Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.14, SCM Press

topic: Christian, Grace, Ruins, Cheap Grace, Commandments

Cheap grace is grace without discipleship.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

topic: Grace, Discipleship, Christian Living, Cheap Grace, Christian Discipleship