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Grace Quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren.
- Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of 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…
- Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.
- The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works.
- Self-justification and judging others go together, as justification by grace and serving others go together.
- Cheap grace is grace without discipleship.
- God cleanses and sanctifies us, comes to us with grace and love. God makes us happy, as only children can be happy.
- 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…
- Jesus says that every Christian has his own cross waiting for him, a cross destined and appointed by God. Each must endure his allotted share…
- The gift of Christ is not the Christian religion, but the grace and love of God which culminate in the cross.
- grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.
- 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…
- Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
- Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others…
- 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…
- Struggling against the legalism of simple obedience, we end by setting up the most dangerous law of all, the law of the world and the…
- Christ became our Brother in order to help us. Through him our brother has become Christ for us in the power and authority of the…
- 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…
More Grace Quotes
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider. — Saint Augustine
- I'm certainly not opposed to digital technology, whose graces I daily enjoy and rely on in so many ways. But I worry… — Diane Ackerman
- I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this… — Teresa of Avila
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila
- Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors,… — Teresa of Avila
- Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves. — Drew Barrymore
- Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. — Karl Barth
- God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. — Saul Bellow
- My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him. — Rachel Bilson