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Civil courage, in fact, can grow only out of the free responsibility of free men.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer Letters and Papers from Prison (1967)

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Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our Church. We are fighting to-day for costly grace.

Costly Grace (1937)

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)

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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
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All doubt is cowardice — all trust is brave.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Courage is never born with a person; time and circumstances inject it into a person and bring it forth from within.

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Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

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