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Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our Church. We are fighting to-day for costly grace.
Costly Grace (1937)
Civil courage, in fact, can grow only out of the free responsibility of free men.
Letters and Papers from Prison (1967)
The great masquerade of evil has played havoc with all our ethical concepts.
Letters and Papers from Prison (1967)
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 must knock.
Costly Grace (1937)
Before Jesus leads His disciples into suffering, humiliation, disgrace, and disdain, He summons them and shows Himself to them as the Lord in God's glory.
Meditations on the Cross (1996)
God honors some with great suffering and grants them the grace of martyrdom, while other are not tempted beyond their strength. But in every case it is one cross.
Discipleship (1937)
The cross is not random suffering, but necessary suffering. The cross is not suffering that stems from natural existence; it is the suffering that comes from being Christian.
Discipleship (1937)
Jesus' commandment never wishes to destroy life, but rather to preserve, strengthen, and heal life.
Discipleship (1937)
It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life.
Costly Grace (1937)
The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
Discipleship (1937)
Suffering willingly endured is stronger than evil, it spells death to evil.
Discipleship (1937)
The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law.
Discipleship (1937)
They get entangled in non-essentials and fall into the trap set by cleverer people.
Letters and Papers from Prison (1967)
Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable.
Then evil cannot find its mark, it can breed no further evil, and is left barren.
Discipleship (1937)
Jesus bluntly calls the evil person evil.
Discipleship (1937)
Calling and freedom were to him two sides of the same thing. But in this he misjudged the world; he did not realize that his submissiveness and self-sacrifice could be exploited for evil ends.
Letters and Papers from Prison (1967)
In recent years we have seen a great deal of bravery and self-sacrifice, but civil courage hardly anywhere, even among ourselves.
Letters and Papers from Prison (1967)
Still more pathetic is the total collapse of moral fanaticism.
Letters and Papers from Prison (1967)
To everyone God is the kind of God he believes in.
Discipleship (1937)