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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

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

Self-justification and judging others go together, as justification by grace and serving others go together.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Self, Judging, Grace
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.70, SCM Press

But they all stood beneath the cross, enemies and believers, doubters and cowards, revilers and devoted followers. His prayer, in that hour, and his forgiveness, was meant for them all, and for all their sins. The mercy and love of God are at work even in the midst of his enemies. It is the same Jesus Christ, who of his grace calls us to follow him, and whose grace saves the murderer who mocks him on the cross in his last hour.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus, Prayer, Grace
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.34, SCM Press

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Fighting, Grace, Enemy
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.3, SCM Press

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Christian, Grace, Ruins
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.14, SCM Press

The gift of Christ is not the Christian religion, but the grace and love of God which culminate in the cross.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Christian, Grace, And Love
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2007). “I Want to Live These Days with You: A Year of Daily Devotions”, p.144, Westminster John Knox Press

The preaching of grace can only be protected by the preaching of repentance.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Grace, Repentance, Preaching
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1966). “The Way to Freedom: 1935-1939, from the Collected Works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer”, New York : Harper & Row

The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ. Such a man knows that the call to discipleship is a gift of grace, and that the call is inseparable from the grace. But those who try to use this grace as a dispensation from following Christ are simply deceiving themselves.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Men, Following Christ, Grace

Cheap grace is grace without discipleship.

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

The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Men, Grace, Justified
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.10, SCM Press

It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Christian, Community, Grace
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.10, SCM Press

Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus, Grace, Christ
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.4, SCM Press

God comes into the very midst of evil and of death, and judges the evil in us and in the world. And by judging us, he cleanses and sanctifies us, comes to us with his grace and love. He makes us happy as only children can be happy.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Children, Grace, Only Child
"A testament to freedom: the essential writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer".

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
Men, Grace, Treasure
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.4, SCM Press

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

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
Men, Doors, Grace
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.5, SCM Press

grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Law, Grace, Cost
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.12, SCM Press

We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there he still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Grace, Needs, Earth
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.38, SCM Press

The proclamation of grace has its limits. Grace may not be proclaimed to anyone who does not recognize or distinguish or desire it... The world upon whom grace is thrust as a bargain will grow tired of it, and it will not only trample upon the Holy, but also will tear apart those who force it on them.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Tired, Grace, Tears
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1966). “The Way to Freedom: 1935-1939, from the Collected Works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer”, New York : Harper & Row

God honors some with great suffering and grants them the grace of martyrdom, while other are not tempted beyond their strength. But in every case it is one cross.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Grace, Honor, Suffering
"Discipleship". Book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, p. 87, 1937.

Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Grace, Christianity, Monastic Life

The world upon whom grace is thrust as a bargain will grow tired of it.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Tired, Grace, World
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1966). “The Way to Freedom: 1935-1939, from the Collected Works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer”, New York : Harper & Row

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