Quotes about Cost

Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.

Forgiveness costs us nothing. All our costly obedience is the fruit, not the root, of being forgiven. That's why we call it grace.

In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.

Freedom always comes with a price.

The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance.

Don't be ashamed to celebrate victories that may seem small to others. Only you and God know what they really cost.

What's the difference between beer nuts and deer nuts? Beer nuts are $1.50 and deer nuts are under a buck.

Love is doing what will enthrall the beloved with the greatest and longest joy. What will enthrall the beloved this way is the glory of God. Love means doing all we can, at whatever cost to ourselves, to help people be enthralled with the glory of God. When they are, they are satisfied and God is glorified. Therefore loving people and glorifying God are one.

we have developed a corollary that is neither love nor forgiveness—namely, tolerance. The problem with this is clear: I can "tolerate" you without it costing me anything very much. I can shrug my shoulders, walk away, and leave you to do your own thing. That, admittedly, is preferable to my taking you by the throat and shaking you until you agree with me. But it is certainly not love.

It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.

The basis of prayer is not what it costs us, but what it costs God to enable us to pray.

Remember what makes prayer easy is not our wits or our understanding, but the tremendous agony of God in redemption...Prayer is not what it costs us, but what it cost God to enable us to pray.