“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.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Source: Costly Grace, p. 45.
Context: 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.
Such grace is costly because it calls us to follow, and it is grace because it calls us to follow Jesus Christ. It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life. It is costly because it condemns sin, and grace because it justifies the sinner.

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German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi 1906–1945

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“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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Source: Costly Grace (1937), p. 45

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