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“When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself - a saint, or a converted sinner, or a churchman (a so-called clerical somebody), a righteous or unrighteous man,...and throws himself into the arms of God...then he wakes with Christ in Gethsemane. That is faith, that is metanoia and it is thus that he becomes a man and Christian.”

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Book:The Cost of Discipleship

Source: The Cost of Discipleship

“Our joys will be doubled and our sorrows will be reduced and we will walk our life in community with the body of Christ. When you are with someone else, you are not nearly as willing to give up. So find a friend, be honest and walk together.”

Giving Body Together Joy Christ Community Walks Our Lives Honest Willing Sorrow Giving Up Being Honest Body Of Christ

Author:Jennifer Rothschild

“The nearer Christ comes to a heart, the more it becomes conscious of its guilt; it will then either ask for his mercy and find peace, or else it will turn against Him because it is not yet ready to give up its sinfulness. Thus He will separate the good from the bad, the wheat from the chaff. Man's reaction to this Divine Presence will be the test: either it will call out all the opposition of egotistic natures, or else galvanize them into a regeneration and a resurrection.”

Men Giving Heart Turns Asks Christ Divine Ready Giving Up Conscious Tests Mercy Guilt Reactions Opposition Resurrection Wheat Finding Peace Regeneration Sinfulness Ready To Give Up

Book:Life of Christ

Source: Life of Christ

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

Giving Christ Cost Demand Giving Up Gains Following Diamond Dirt Following Christ

Author:Steve Lawson

“I do not feel I could give up all for Christ, were I called to die.”

Giving Feels Dies Christ Atheism Giving Up Positive Atheism

Book:Selected Letters

Source: Selected Letters

“The Devil is perfectly willing that the church should multiply its organizations and its deftly contrived machinery for the conquest of the world for Christ, if it will only give up praying...The Devil is not afraid of machinery; he is only afraid of God. And machinery without prayer is machinery without God.”

Ifs World Giving Should Christ Church Prayer Willing Praying Giving Up Devil Organization Not Afraid Conquest Machinery Without God

Author:R. A. Torrey

“The devil is perfectly willing that the Church should multiply its organization and its deftly contrived machinery for the conquest of the world for Christ, if it will only give up praying... Satan laughs softly, as he looks at the Church today, and says under his breath: "You can have your Sunday schools, your YMCAs...your grand choirs, and your fine organs, and your brilliant preachers...as long as you do not bring into them the power of Almighty God, sought and obtained by earnest, persistent, believing, mighty prayers."”

“It would be easy to show that at our present rate of progress the kingdoms of this world never could become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ. Indeed, many in the Church are giving up the idea of it except on the occasion of the advent of Christ, which, as it chimes in with our own idleness, is likely to be a popular doctrine. I myself believe that King Jesus will reign, and the idols be utterly abolished. . . . The Holy Ghost would never suffer the imputation to rest upon His holy name that He was not able to convert the world.”

“I heard the call to give up all and follow Christ into the slums to serve Him among the poorest of the poor. It was an order.”

Giving Order Christ Poor Heard Giving Up Poorest Slums

Author:Mother Teresa

“The Atonement of Jesus Christ is powerful enough to reach out and cleanse you if you are repentant and give up your sinful behavior, but I urge you not to embark on that path because repentance is not easy.”

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Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“I'm a Christian. I'm committed to Jesus Christ and I want people to know about Christ, because it's the most wonderful thing. People can say, 'I'll try and give up drugs,' or 'I'll try and live a better life,' but actually, if you're trapped in that lifestyle, you need, I think, some supernatural power to get you out of it. It's not easy to get out of the kind of lifestyles those people are in where all your family are criminals and all your friends are criminals - that is not an easy break to make, and it is a hard thing for a lot of these people.”

“The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be. . .It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.”

People Giving Firsts Made Different Real Religion Turns Christ My Own Personality Giving Up New Beginnings Different Peoples

Author:C. S. Lewis

“The difference between an admirer and a follower still remains, no matter where you are. The admirer never makes any true sacrifices. He always plays it safe. Though in words, phrases, songs, he is inexhaustible about how highly he prizes Christ, he renounces nothing, gives up nothing, will not reconstruct his life, will not be what he admires, and will not let his life express what it is he supposedly admires.”

Giving Stills Matter Play Song Christ Differences Sacrifice Safe Giving Up Remains Admire Phrases Prize Where You Are Followers Renounce Admirer

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“To give up faith in Christ is to give up faith in humanity; to believe in Christ is to believe in the redeption and final glorification of men; and this faith is the best inspiration to a holy and useful life for the good of our race of the glory of God.”

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Book:The Person of Christ: The Perfection of His Humanity Viewed as a Proof of His Divinity

Source: The Person of Christ: The Perfection of His Humanity Viewed as a Proof of His Divinity

“Dear brethren, this is exactly what we have to do, we have to pawn the present for the future. We must be satisfied to give up anything which Christ may require of us for the sake of that which is to come. Our inheritance is not on this side of Jordan. Our joy is yet to be revealed. I grant you that we have much thrown in, for the Lord is a good paymaster; but on the road to heaven he gives us only our spending money.”

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Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Jesus Christ was God - the Personal God become man. He has manifested Himself many times in different forms and these alone are what you can worship. God in His absolute nature is not to be worshipped. Worshipping such God would be nonsense. We have to worship Jesus Christ, the human manifestation, as God. You cannot worship anything higher than the manifestation of God. The sooner you give up the worship of God separate from Christ, the better for you.”

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Book:Complete Works

Source: Complete Works

“Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again did he preach renunciation as the only way to perfection. There comes a time when the mind awakes from this long and dreary dream-the child gives up its play and wants to go back to its mother. Renunciation is not asceticism. Are all beggars Christ? Poverty is not a synonym for holiness; often the reverse.”

Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge

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