Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance,
baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution
without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace
without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Christian faith is meant to be lived moment by moment. It isn't some broad,
general outline--it's a long walk with a real Person. Details count: passing
thoughts, small sacrifices, a few encouraging words, little acts of kindness,
brief victories over nagging sins. - Joni Eareckson-Tada
Avarice,
greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that
the more you get, the more you have. The remark of that it is more blessed to
give than to receive is based on the human truth that the more you give away in
love, the more you are. It is not just for the sake of other people that tells
us to give rather than get, but for our own sakes too. - Frederick Buechner
Leave me as I am, the one who gives me strength to endure the fire will also
give me strength to stay quite still on the pyre., even without the precaution
of your nails.... For eighty and six years I have been his servant, and he has
done me no wrong, and how can I blaspheme my King who saved me? (Last words, at
the time of his martyrdom, AD 155) - Polycarp
We are prepared to serve the Lord only by sacrifice. We are fit for the work of
God only when we have wept over it, prayed about it, and then we are enabled by
Him to tackle the job that needs to be done. May God give to us hearts that
bleed, eyes that are wide open to see, minds that are clear to interpret God's
purposes, wills that are obedient, and a determination that is utterly
unflinching as we set about the tasks He would have us do. - Alan Redpath
What are you afraid of? Let God act. Abandon yourself to Him. You will suffer,
but you will suffer with love, peace and consolation. You will fight, but you
can carry off the victory, and God Himself, after having fought with you, will
crown you with His own hand. You will weep, but your tears will be sweet, and
God Himself will come with satisfaction to dry them. You will not be free any
longer to give yourself up to your tyrannical passions, but you will sacrifice
your liberty freely, and you will enter into a new liberty unknown to the world,
in which you will do nothing except for love. - Francois Fénelon
If affirmation for life is genuine, it will demand from all that they should
sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others. - Albert Schweitzer
Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance,
baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution
without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace
without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Christian faith is meant to be lived moment by moment. It isn't some broad,
general outline--it's a long walk with a real Person. Details count: passing
thoughts, small sacrifices, a few encouraging words, little acts of kindness,
brief victories over nagging sins. - Joni Eareckson-Tada
Avarice,
greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that
the more you get, the more you have. The remark of that it is more blessed to
give than to receive is based on the human truth that the more you give away in
love, the more you are. It is not just for the sake of other people that tells
us to give rather than get, but for our own sakes too. - Frederick Buechner
Leave me as I am, the one who gives me strength to endure the fire will also
give me strength to stay quite still on the pyre., even without the precaution
of your nails.... For eighty and six years I have been his servant, and he has
done me no wrong, and how can I blaspheme my King who saved me? (Last words, at
the time of his martyrdom, AD 155) - Polycarp
We are prepared to serve the Lord only by sacrifice. We are fit for the work of
God only when we have wept over it, prayed about it, and then we are enabled by
Him to tackle the job that needs to be done. May God give to us hearts that
bleed, eyes that are wide open to see, minds that are clear to interpret God's
purposes, wills that are obedient, and a determination that is utterly
unflinching as we set about the tasks He would have us do. - Alan Redpath
What are you afraid of? Let God act. Abandon yourself to Him. You will suffer,
but you will suffer with love, peace and consolation. You will fight, but you
can carry off the victory, and God Himself, after having fought with you, will
crown you with His own hand. You will weep, but your tears will be sweet, and
God Himself will come with satisfaction to dry them. You will not be free any
longer to give yourself up to your tyrannical passions, but you will sacrifice
your liberty freely, and you will enter into a new liberty unknown to the world,
in which you will do nothing except for love. - Francois Fénelon
If affirmation for life is genuine, it will demand from all that they should
sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others. - Albert Schweitzer