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Death on the cross means to suffer and to die as one rejected and cast out. It was by divine necessity that Jesus had to suffer and be rejected. Any attempt to hinder what is necessary is satanic.

— 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.

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.

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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.

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