Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by the end of it the specialist had evolved. The consequence is that today everyone is a mere technician, even the artist.

Help must come from the outside, and it has come and comes daily and answers in the Word of Jesus Christ.

Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.

If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. ... How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?

A pastor who does not pray daily for his congregation is not a pastor.

Silence in the face of evil is evil itself.