"I always have the feeling we are merely fearfully trying to save room for God; I would rather speak of God at the center than at the limits, in streng...
Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of the church
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer ~
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Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of the church
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"Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts about the...
"After death something new begins, over which all powers of the world of death have no more might.
"My past life is abundantly full of God’s mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.
"Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.
"...do we realize that this cheap grace has turned back upon us like a boomerang? The price we are having to pay today in the shape of the collapse of ...
"The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.
"Jesus says to anyone who uses their faith or lack of faith to excuse their acts of disobedience to his call: First obey, do the external works, let go...
"The figure of the crucified invalidates all thought which takes success for its standard.
"Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all ...
"The desire we so often hear expressed today for “episcopal figures,” “priestly men,” “authoritative personalities” springs frequently enough from a sp...
"There is a kind of listening with half an ear that presumes already to know what the other person has to say. It is an impatient, inattentive listenin...
"Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.' These men without possessions or power, these strangers on Earth, these sinners, these followe...
"It is a wicked sophistry to justify the worldliness of the Church by the cross of Christ.
"Cheap grace means grace sold on the market like cheapjacks' wares. The sacraments, the forgiveness of sin, and the consolations of religion are thrown...