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Jesus offers his disciples a simple rule of thumb which will enable even the least sophisticated of them to tell whether his intercourse with others is on the right lines or not. All he need do is to say “I” instead of “Thou,” and put himself in the other man’s place.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer Discipleship (1937)

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

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