"That is what we mean by cheap grace, the grace that amounts to the justification of sin without the justification of the repentant sinner who departs from sin and whom from sin departs. Cheap grace is not the kind of forgiveness of sins that frees us from the toils of sin. Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. 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, living and incarnate. Costly grace is the hidden treasure in the field; for the sake of it a man will gladly go and sell all that he has. It is the pearl of great price to buy which the merchant will sell all his goods. It is the kingly rule of Christ, for whose sake a man will pluck out the eye that causes him to stumble; it is the call of Jesus Christ at Which the disciple leaves his nets and follows him. Costly grace is the gospel that must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door 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...."
-A passage from his The Cost of Discipleship
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