Following Christ Quotes

“Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Look into my eyes...' the Prince said. I have been calling you. The peace you seek you will find if you follow Me.”
― Chuck Black, Kingdom's Call

“Perhaps we are not following Christ all the way or in the right spirit. We are likely, for example, to be a little sparing of the palms and hosannas. We are chary of wielding the scourge of small cords, lest we should offend somebody or interfere with trade. We do not furnish up our wits to disentangle knotty questions about Sunday observance and tribute money, nor hasten to sit at the feet of the doctors, both hearing them and asking them questions. We pass hastily over disquieting jests about making friends with the mammon of unrighteousness and alarming observations about bringing not peace but a sword; nor do we distinguish ourselves by the graciousness by which we sit at meat with publicans and sinners. Somehow or other, and with the best intentions, we have shown the world the typical Christian in the likeness of a crashing and rather ill-natured bore---and this in the name of the one who assuredly never bored a soul in those thirty-three years during which he passed through the world like a flame. Let us, in heaven's name, drag out the divine drama from under the dreadful accumulation of slipshod thinking and trashy sentiment heaped upon it, and set it on an open stage to startle the world into some sort of vigorous reaction. If the pious are the first to be shocked, so much worse for the pious---others will pass into the kingdom of heaven before them. If all men are offended because of Christ, let them be offended; but where is the sense of their being offended at something that is not Christ and is nothing like him? We do him singularly little honor by watering down his personality till it could not offend a fly. Surely it is not the business of the Church to adapt Christ to men, but to adapt men to Christ.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Letters to a Diminished Church: Passionate Arguments for the Relevance of Christian Doctrine

“Suffering, then, is the badge of true discipleship. The disciple is not above his master. Following Christ means passio passiva, suffering because we have to suffer.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

“[It is] our inclination to replace Jesus’ call to deny ourselves, take up our crosses and follow him. We replace his call with a self-serving path in which we deny our neighbors, take up our comforts and follow our dreams.”
― Scott Sauls, Irresistible Faith: Becoming the Kind of Christian the World Can't Resist

“I was challenged to do a little exercise with these verses (1 Cor 13:4-8), one that was profoundly convicting. Take the phrase "Love is patient" and substitute your name for the word "love." (For me, "Francis is patient...") Do it for every phrase in the passage.

By the end, don't you feel like a liar? If I am meant to represent what love is, then I often fail to love people well.

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, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“What a terrible thing it is for children to see death, you say. We have it all wrong. If you make a child terrified of death, he won't embrace it so easily. And death must be embraced if you wish to follow Christ. Listen to His teaching. 'Unless you become like a child...and unless you take up your cross daily, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.' One is not valuable without the other.

Janjic Jovic, The Dance of the Dead, 1959”
― Ted Dekker, When Heaven Weeps

“Once saved, always saved but also, once saved, forever following.”
― J.D. Greear

“Jesus Christ died to save us from our sins; we tend to concentrate on that merciful fact. But isn't it also true He lived to show us a lifestyle free from sin? So, wouldn't following in his footsteps be something like preventative medicine?”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“Abiding time is extravagant daily time with Jesus. This extravagant time is the center of abiding. Not legalism, not dry discipline, not manufactured spirituality, but joyous soaking in the presence of Jesus, lavish spending of time with Him who is most precious, Him from whom all life flows. In a world that is over-connected yet lonely, frantically busy yet accomplishing little of eternal value, super-informed but egregiously ignorant on what really matters, abiding gives Jesus the best of our time, in which He leads us to the best of times.”
― Missionaries Who Love The Arab World, Live Dead: The Journey

“Be the one who walks with the Lord”
― Shellie Palmer, Beyond The Silence of Love & Faith

“And I want you to know, before we go any further, that Jesus came to free you from religion. To those who have been hauling around a long list of rules. To those who are pretending to be more than they really are. To those who are weighed down with the fear and guilt of religion. To all the fans who are worn out on religion, Jesus invites you to follow him.”
― Kyle Idleman, Not a Fan: Becoming a Completely Committed Follower of Jesus

“When you let God reign, he will let it rain”
― Janna Cachola

“But the gospel is not just for Day 1 of our life with Jesus. It is for every day that follows. We won't survive if we replace our connection with Jesus with duty or morals.”
― Rachel Gilson, Born Again This Way

“To come to Christ is not merely an individual affair. It will fracture deep ties among people who have become so close that they are felt to be family.”
― Rachel Gilson, Born Again This Way

“It is easier and certainly simpler for an extremist to embark upon a life of Kingdom living. One cannot get along comfortably following Christ unless one is completely willing to be a fool for Him. An extremist is always 'completely.' In everything.”
― Eugenia Price, The Burden Is Light: The Autobiography of a Transformed Pagan Who Took God at His Word

“How we respond when someone corrects us shows how healthy our spirit really is. When we accept correction with a humble heart, God can help us grow stronger. But if we get proud and angry, it stops us from becoming the person God wants us to be,”
― Prasanth Jonathan

“God seeks those whose motives are pure, whose hearts are gentle, and whose faith is tru.”
― Prasanth Jonathan