Quotes About Cheap Grace

#1. Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of the church

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#2. Any gospel which purports to save people without also transforming them is inviting easy-believism. If you think being a Christian is nothing more than saying a prayer or joining a church, then you've confused real grace with cheap grace. Those who are justified will be sanctified.

Kevin DeYoung

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#4. Cheap grace means grace as a doctrine, a principle, a system. It means forgiveness of sins proclaimed as a general truth, the love of God taught as the Christian "conception" of God.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#5. 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

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#7. 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

#8. Cheap grace is not the kind of forgiveness of sin which frees us from the toils of sin. Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#10. Cheap grace means the justification of sin without the justification of the sinner.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Billy Graham

#12. It seems to me that whereas power usually means power-over, the power of some person or group over some other person or group, it is possible to develop the conception of power-with, a jointly developed power, a co-active, not a coercive power.

Mary Parker Follett

#13. Chaga is one of the weirdest mushrooms you may ever see. A fungal parasite found on birch trees, Chaga is a hardened, blackened, crusty formation that looks like a bursting tumor.

Paul Stamets

#14. Why did you make it so hard for me? I'd rather empty the ocean with a sieve. I do it for you. Or count the grains of sand on every beach. All for you. There are so many people, so many countries. But I have time. All the time in the world. Eternity.

Grant Morrison

#15. It seems like everyone's listening to fiddles and banjos.

Ketch Secor

#16. The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap.

John Burroughs

#17. Most people are grateful because they are happy. Wise people are happy because they're grateful.

Roger N. Walsh

#18. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!

Edmund Burke

#19. Grace is free, but it's not cheap.

Kevin DeYoung

#20. Everything worth doing starts with being scared.

Art Garfunkel

#21. God is a lot of things to a lot of people but I don't think He is a cheap party host with limited grace to give out.

Hannah Brencher

#22. ...but ready or not,life goes on.

Sidney Sheldon

#23. Grace is never cheap. It is absolutely free to us, but infinitely expensive to God ... Anyone who is prone to use grace as a license for irresponsible, sinful behavior, surely does not appreciate the infinite price God paid to give us His grace.

Jerry Bridges

#24. Some people are afraid of gentrification, but what I see is young people want to live in a different world. And they see possibilities here. They see that rents are relatively cheap compared to places like New York and California.

Grace Lee Boggs