Cheap Grace: Quotes from The Cost of Discipleship

"Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our Church."

"We are fighting today for costly grace."

"Cheap grace means grace sold on the market like cheapjacks' wares."

"Cheap grace means the justification of sin without the justification of the sinner. Grace alone does everything, they say, and so everything can remain as it was before."

"Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession."

"Costly grace is the treasure hidden in the field; for the sake of it a man will gladly go and sell all that he has."

"Costly grace is the gospel..."

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