The Cost of Discipleship
1937 · 316 pages
Cheap grace forgives without changing anyone, Bonhoeffer wrote from an outlawed seminary in Nazi Germany. Real grace costs a life: Christ calls a man to come and die. He was hanged in 1945.
★ 6.6
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Gravity and Grace
1943 · 236 pages
Weil held that the soul falls by a law as fixed as gravity and that grace enters only a void, which is why affliction, stripping everything away, can open a person to God.
★ 6.5