Grace Is Costly Quotes

#1. 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

#2. No more free steps to heaven.

David Bowie

#3. Our children are our sequels. Our parents are our prequels. All living beings are our equals.

Ashok K. Banker

#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. 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

#6. 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

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#8. I have thus given you a full statement of all that I know respecting the origin of Mormonism.

Charles Anthon

#9. Popular and unpopular don't necessarily map to shit and shinola, of course.

Hal Duncan

#10. In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation became a game.

Wallace Stegner

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#14. Born in a stable,
Cradled in a manger,
In the world His hands have made,
Born a stranger.

Christina Rossetti

#15. 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