"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 cheapjack wares. The sacraments, the forgiveness of sin, and the consolidations of religion are thrown away at cut prices ...
In such a Church the world finds a cheap covering for its sins; no contrition is required, still less any real desire to be delivered from sin ... Cheap grace means the justification of sin without the justification of the sinner ... it is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
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