Following Jesus Quotes - Page 3

• Here's the grey rule: embrace things that lead you closer to Jesus, and reject things that lead you away from Jesus.

  Trip Lee

  Jesus, Embrace, Grey

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• Genuine love for Jesus manifests itself in obedience to His commandments.

  R. C. Sproul

  Jesus, Genuine Love, Obedience

  Twitter post from Dec 6, 2017

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• Thus there will be three effects of nearness to Jesus humility, happiness, and holiness.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Happiness, Christian, Religious

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.535, Discovery House

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• There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Conditions

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.13, Discovery House

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• God answers our prayers not because we are good, but because He is good.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Faith, Christian

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• It is a lesson we all need - to let alone the things that do not concern us. He has other ways for others to follow Him; all do not go by the same path. It is for each of us to learn the path by which He requires us to follow Him, and to follow Him in that path.

  Katharine Drexel

  God, Faith, Christian

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• The moment you enlist in the army of God, you personally become a target. You need to remember that if you're living for and walking with Jesus Christ, the powers of darkness are aligned against you.

  Walter Martin

  God, Religious, Jesus

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• Nobody can do as much damage to the church of God as the man who is within its walls, but not within its life.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Faith, Christian

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1112, Barbour Publishing

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• Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So if God answers prayer it's because God is good. From His goodness, His lovingkindness, His good-natured benevolence, God does it! That's the source of everything.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Faith, Death, Christian

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• God's thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Faith, Christian

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• If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  God, Faith, Christian

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• Our scars reveal who we are. The fact that we have experienced profound suffering in life—the fact that we carry what may seem to be unsightly scars—does not disqualify us from following Jesus. It may be precisely what qualifies us.

  Jonathan Martin

  Jesus, Profound, Suffering

  Jonathan Martin (2013). “Prototype: What Happens When You Discover You're More Like Jesus Than You Think?”, p.89, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• You know, it's one thing to say you believe. It's another thing to have your faith tested severely and come out on the other side of it still believing God.

  Joyce Meyer

  God, Faith, Christian

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• The saints must be honored as friends of Christ and children and heirs of God. Let us carefully observe the manner of life of all the apostles, martyrs, ascetics, and just men who announced the coming of the Lord. And let us emulate their faith, charity, hope, zeal, life, patience under suffering, and perseverance unto death so that we may also share their crowns of glory.

  John of Damascus

  Life, God, Faith

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• The One who saved your soul longs to remake your heart. Let's fix our eyes on Jesus. Perhaps in seeing Him, we will see what we can become!

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Heart, Eye

  Twitter post from Feb 07, 2013

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• As Elisabeth Elliot points out, not even dying a martyr’s death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died on a cross. Suddenly a martyr’s death seems like normal obedience.

  David Platt

  Faith, Death, God

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• When life caves in, you do not need reasons -- you need comfort. You do not need some answers -- you need someone. And Jesus does not come to us with an explanation -- He comes to us with His presence.

  Bob Benson

  Jesus, Comfort, Doe

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• I get irritated when I hear preachers say, "Come to Jesus and all your problems will be over." That's just simply a lie.

  R. C. Sproul

  Jesus, Lying, Irritated

  Twitter post from Aug 12, 2015

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• I believe passionately that Christianity is a way of life, not a theological system with which one must be in intellectual agreement. I feel that Christ would admit into discipleship anyone who sincerely desired to follow him, and allow that disciple to make his creed out of his experience; to listen, to consider, to pray, to follow, and ultimately to believe only those convictions about which the experience of fellowship made him sure.

  Leslie Weatherhead

  Life, God, Faith

  "The Christian Agnostic" by Leslie Weatherhead, (Preface, p. 16, sentences 2,3.), 1965.

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• The universe is wired with the electricity of God, & each of us is a lamp. It doesn't matter the size or shape of the lamp; it only matters that the lamp is plugged in. With every prayer, every thought of forgiveness, every meditation, every act of love, we plug in. The more of us who plug in, to more the darkness of the world will be cast from our midst. Today, let's all increase love's wattage!

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Happiness, Forgiveness

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Oct 01, 2010

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• Give Him your mess and let it become your message.

  Joyce Meyer

  God, Faith, Christian

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• God save us from living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Faith, God, Christian

  Spurgeon, Charles, Delmarva Publications,Inc (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 83”, p.102, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• When I cease to preach salvation by faith in Jesus put me into a lunatic asylum, for you may be sure that my mind is gone.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Mind, Gone

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• If we empty our hearts of self God will fill them with His love.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Love, God, Faith

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “Strengthen My Spirit”, p.133, Barbour Publishing

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• Remember: He WANTS your fellowship, and He has done everything possible to make it a reality. He has forgiven your sins, at the cost of His own dear Son. He has given you His Word, and the priceless privilege of prayer and worship.

  Billy Graham

  Forgiveness, God, Christian

  Billy Graham (2006). “Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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