Following Christ Quotes

• God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'

  Billy Graham

  Love, Christian, Easter

  Twitter post from Apr 05, 2015

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• Following Christ isn't something that can be done halfheartedly or on the side. It is not a label we can display when it is useful. It must be central to everything we do and are.

  Francis Chan

  Labels, Done, Sides

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.94, David C Cook

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• Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Godly, Christianity, Discipleship

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.17, SCM Press

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• Our task as image-bearing, God-loving, Christ-shaped, Spirit-filled Christians, following Christ and shaping our world, is to announce redemption to a world that has discovered its fallenness, to announce healing to a world that has discovered its brokenness, to proclaim love and trust to a world that knows only exploitation, fear and suspicion.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Healing, Our World

  "The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is". Book by N. T. Wright, 1999.

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• I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Faith, Christian

  As quoted by William Rees-Mogg in "The Times", April 4, 2005.

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• You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

  Aldous Huxley

  Funny, Bible, Jesus

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• Following Christ means following him through life, following him in every word and gesture, following him out of one clime into another.

  George Whitefield

  Mean, Gestures, Christ

  George Whitefield (1832). “Sermons”, p.785

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• Cheap grace is the idea that "grace" did it all for me so I do not need to change my lifestyle. The believer who accepts the idea of "cheap grace" thinks he can continue to live like the rest of the world. Instead of following Christ in a radical way, the Christian lost in cheap grace thinks he can simply enjoy the consolations of his grace.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Thinking, Ideas

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• Following Christ is not a casual or occasional practice but a continuous commitment and way of life that applies at all times and in all places.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Commitment, Practice, Way

  FaceBook post by Dallin H Oaks from Jun 24, 2014

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• The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ. Such a man knows that the call to discipleship is a gift of grace, and that the call is inseparable from the grace. But those who try to use this grace as a dispensation from following Christ are simply deceiving themselves.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Men, Grace, Trying

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• Don't follow those who can talk a big game about their amazing faith in Christ. Follow people who are actually following Christ.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Games, People, Bigs

  Twitter post from Feb 12, 2015

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• Following Christ is a wild adventure full or risk, frustration, excitement, and setbacks. It is not an evening stroll in a planned community along a well-manicured path.

  Larry Crabb

  Adventure, Frustration, Community

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• After he has been following Christ for a long time, the disciple of Jesus will be asked, "Lacked ye anything?" and he will answer "Nothing, Lord." How could he when he knows that despite hunger and nakedness, persecution and danger, the Lord is always at his side?

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Long, Sides

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• Christ had no interest in gathering vast crowds of professed adherents who would melt away as soon as they found out what following Him actually demanded of them. In our own presentation of Christ's gospel, therefore, we need to lay a similar stress on the cost of following Christ and make sinners face it soberly before we urge them to respond to the message of free forgiveness. In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.

  J. I. Packer

  Honesty, Stress, Crowds

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• If the whole church goes off into deception, that will in no way excuse us for not following Christ.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Deception, Church, Way

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• Following Christ has nothing to do with success as the world sees success. It has to do with love.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Religious, Women, Godly

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.53, Convergent Books

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• Following Christ is a daily thing, not just a one-time thing

  Mike Fisher

  Christ, Following, One Time

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• Contemporary American churches in particular do not require following Christ in his example, spirit, and teachings as a condition of membership-either of entering into or continuing in fellowship of a denomination or a local church.... Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have not yet decided to follow Christ.

  Dallas Willard

  Teaching, Church, Example

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• The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old but a life of uncompromising discipleship, following Christ according to the sermon on the mount.  I believe the time has come to gather people together to do this.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Believe, People, Church

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• My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn't understand, to an optimistic believer in a universe created and sustained by a loving God is crucial to me. But following Christ does not mean following His followers. Christ is infinitely more important than Christianity and always will be, no matter what Christianity is, has been, or might become.

  Anne Rice

  God, Faith, Christian

  FaceBook post by Anne Rice from Jul 29, 2010

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• Marriage is a call to die [to self]... Christian marriage vows are the inception of a lifelong practice of death, of giving over not only all you have, but all you are. Is this a grim gallows call? Not at all! It is no more grim than dying to self and following Christ. In fact, those who lovingly die for their [spouses] are those who know the most joy, have the most fulfilling marriages, and experience the most love.

  R. Kent Hughes

  Christian, Practice, Self

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• If we are leading but not closely following Christ, we are misleading.

  Beth Moore

  Ifs, Mislead, Christ

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• The demands of following Christ will cost you everything. But you gain far more than you give up. You give up dirt for diamonds.

  Steve Lawson

  Giving Up, Dirt, Gains

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• Thus, for followers of Christ, calling neutralizes the fundamental position of choice in modern life. “I have chosen you,” Jesus said, “you have not chosen me.” We are not our own; we have been bought with a price. We have no rights, only responsibilities. Following Christ is not our initiative, merely our response, in obedience. Nothing works better to debunk the pretensions of choice than a conviction of calling. Once we have been called, we literally “have no choice.

  Os Guinness

  Jesus, Responsibility, Rights

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• Discipleship means adherence to Christ and, because Christ is the object of that adherence, it must take the form of discipleship. An abstract theology, a doctrinal system, a general religious knowledge of the subject of grace or the forgiveness of sins, render discipleship superfluous, and in fact exclude any idea of discipleship whatsoever, and are essentially inimical to the whole conception of following Christ....Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Religious, Mean, Ideas

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