Costly Grace Quotes

#1. 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

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#3. Most churches make the mistake of selecting as leaders the confident, the competent, and the successful. But what you most need in a leader is someone who has been broken by the knowledge of his or her sin, and even greater knowledge of Jesus' costly grace

Timothy Keller

#4. When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.

Timothy Keller

#5. It is a costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#6. The only reality you can be sure about is in your own perceptions. If the universe exists, it exists inside your own mind and the minds of others.

Al Ries

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#8. Torrance emphasized that "the gospel of unconditional grace is very difficult for us, for it is so costly. It takes away from under our feet the very ground on which we want to stand, and the free will which we as human beings cherish so dearly becomes exposed as a subtle form of self-will".

Paul D. Molnar

#9. He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.

John Ray

#10. Love is the beginning of significance.

Marquita Burke-DeJesus

#11. Fear is often described as False Evidence Appearing Real.

Nick Vujicic

#12. WHat I learned is, it's never too late to save anybody. And it's always too late. And what are the chances you'll make any difference?

Chuck Palahniuk

#13. Self publishing' is not as easy as it is portrayed! When you think you have finished your book, proof read, proof read again, and again, and again. Don't believe it is ready until you have a hard copy proofed!

Phil Simpkin

#14. When youth begins to pass, fun isn't fun any longer.

Agatha Christie

#15. Forgiveness costs us nothing. All our costly obedience is the fruit, not the root, of being forgiven. That's why we call it grace.

John Piper

#16. Read the Bible for the salvation of your soul, not the solution to your problem.

T. B. Joshua

#17. [Advice to Bessie Smith:] Let your soul do the singin'.

Ma Rainey

#18. You can't be with someone else effectively, unless you can stand to be alone with yourself," he declared. "Being part of a couple isn't the final answer. It can't define who you are.

Joan Bauer

#19. No more free steps to heaven.

David Bowie

#20. Grace is costly because it calls us through our person to the person of Jesus Christ. And when we follow the person of Jesus Christ, when we follow his call through our person, we're sent to act for the concrete person of our neighbor in the world.

Andrew Root

#21. Man is very capable of imagining infinite happiness, and he should be able to grasp the infinity of space - I

Walter Isaacson