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“Virtue is what happens when someone has made a thousand small choices requiring effort and concentration to do something which is good and right, but which doesn't come naturally. And then, on the thousand and first time, when it really matters, they find that they do what's required automatically. Virtue is what happens when wise and courageous choices become second nature.”
― N.T. Wright, After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

“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...Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.”
― Robert Penn Warren

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman