Quotes about Costly

God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.

Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.

God's love is a costly love. It never takes the easy path away from relationships. Instead, it plots how to move towards other people. It thinks creatively of ways to surprise them with love.

Relationships are costly, but so is avoiding them. If

All these buildings were constructed with costly stones, cut to size and trimmed with saws inside and out from the foundation to the eaves, and from the outside to the great courtyard.

I am horribly poor—and very expensive.

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

It's inevitable. If you live with other sinners, you will have conflict. The closer you are to someone, the more potential there is for conflict. Relationships are costly, but so is avoiding them.

To love in any way is to be like a child—it means to be vulnerable, to be wide-eyed, to be selfless. There is no such thing as free love; love is the most costly expression in the world. To love romantically is to give of oneself fully and completely, a merging and meshing of souls so that the twain become a unity. It is to allow the sense of wonder to fully enrapture.

Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind.

Many people will profess faithfulness, but few will demonstrate it. The virtue of faithfulness is often costly, and few people are willing to pay the price. But for the godly person, faithfulness is an absolutely essential quality of his character, regardless of what it might cost.

The foundations were laid with large, costly stones, some ten cubits long and some eight cubits long.