Gethsemane Quotes

• The Bible is the story of two gardens: Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus took a stand. In the first, God sought Adam. In the second, Jesus sought God. In Eden, Adam hid from God. In Gethsemane, Jesus emerged from the tomb. In Eden, Satan led Adam to a tree that led to his death. From Gethsemane, Jesus went to a tree that led to our life.

  Max Lucado

  Bible, Jesus, Fall

  Max Lucado (2012). “A Gentle Thunder: Hearing God Through the Storm”, p.44, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not.

  C. S. Lewis

  Three, Might, Cups

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• Gethsemane is where He died; the cross is only the evidence.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Friday, Crosses, Evidence

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• The Bible is the story of two gardens. Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus took a stand.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Fall, Garden

  Max Lucado (2011). “Celebrating Christmas with Jesus: An Advent Devotional”, p.60, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• This is the centre of the gospel - this is what the Garden of Gethsemane and Good Friday are all about - that God has done astonishing and costly things to draw us near.

  John Piper

  Friday, Garden, Done

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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.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Giving Up, Men

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.22, SCM Press

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• Part of the reason the Savior suffered in Gethsemane was so that he would have an infinite compassion for us as we experience our trials and tribulations. Through his suffering in Gethsemane, the Savior became qualified to be the perfect judge. Not one of us will be able to approach him on the Judgment Day and say, ‘You don’t know what it was like.’ He knows the nature of our trials better than we do, for he ‘descended below them all.

  Glenn L. Pace

  Compassion, Perfect, Judging

  Glenn L. Pace (1995). “Spiritual Plateaus”

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• Jesus defeated satan in Gethsemane on the cross, not by directly confronting the devil, but by fulfilling the destiny to which He had been called. The greatest battle that was ever won was accomplished by the apparent death of the victor, without even a word of rebuke to His adversary!

  Francis Frangipane

  Jesus, Destiny, Battle

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• For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.

  C. S. Lewis

  Prayer, Waiting, Mountain

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• See yonder another King's garden, which the King waters with his bloody sweat-Gethsemane, whose bitter herbs are sweeter far to renewed souls than even Eden's luscious fruits. There the mischief of the serpent in the first garden was undone: there the curse was lifted from earth, and borne by the woman's promised seed.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Kings, Garden, Sweat

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1928). “Morning and Evening: Daily Readings”, p.404, CCEL

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• We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Eden, Victory, Example

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• Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer - can put us in touch with God, our greatest source of comfort and counsel.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Prayer, Simple, Comfort

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• If the grim realities you are facing at this time seem dark and heavy and almost unbearable, remember that in the soul-wrenching darkness of Gethsemane and the incomprehensible torture and pain of Calvary, the Savior accomplished the Atonement, which resolves the most terrible burdens that can occur in this life. He did it for you, and He did it for me. He did it because He loves us and because He obeys and loves His Father. We will be rescued from death-even from the depths of the sea.

  Quentin L. Cook

  Pain, Father, Dark

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• He saw you in your own Gethsemane and He didn't want you to be alone..He would rather go to hell for you than to haven without you.

  Max Lucado

  Motivational, Want, Saws

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• It is a great thing, when our Gethsemane hours come, when the cup of bitterness is pressed to our lips ... to feel that it is not fate, that it is not necessity, but divine love for good ends working upon us.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Adversity, Fate, Cups

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• The honour of Jesus Christ is at stake in your bodily life. Are you remaining loyal to the Son of God in the things which beset His life in you? Do you continue to go with Jesus? The way lies through Gethsemane, through the city gate, outside the camp; the way lies alone, and the way lies until there is no trace of a footstep left, only the voice, 'Follow Me.'

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Lying, Son

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.536, Discovery House

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• Obedience makes us progressively stronger, capable of faithfully enduring tests and trials in the future. Obedience in Gethsemane prepared the Savior to obey and endure to the end on Golgotha.

  Robert D. Hales

  Stronger, Trials, Tests

  FaceBook post by Robert D Hales from May 23, 2014

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• Our world can be moved Godward only by leaders who have shared to a deep degree the heartbreak as He looks in compassion and love on the world. Until you sense the suffering tears in the heart of God, until you share to some extent our Saviors suffering passion in Gethsemane, until you come close enough to God to enable the Spirit to yearn within you with His infinite and unutterable yearnings, you are not prepared to minister about the cross.

  Wesley L Duewel

  Passion, Heart, Our World

  Wesley L. Duewel (1989). “Ablaze for God”, p.238, Zondervan

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• There is a deeper life. It is as deep as a personal Gethsemane and as costly as a personal Calvary.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Calvary, Deeper

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• The plan of salvation could not be brought about without an atonement... The atoning sacrifice had to be carried out by the sinless Son of God, for fallen man could not atone for his own sins. The Atonement had to be infinite and eternal to cover all men throughout all eternity. Through His suffering and death, the Savior atoned for the sins of all men. His Atonement began in Gethsemane and continued on the cross and culminated with the Resurrection.

  C. Scott Grow

  Son, Sacrifice, Men

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• Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!"

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Easter, Christ On The Cross, Answers

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.88, Open Road Media

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• Often the children of God cannot rise up to answer the Lord's call to service simply because, though their physical condition is good, their feelings are low, cold, and reluctant. Or even when their emotions are quite high, passionate, and willing, they find themselves unable to serve the Lord because now the body reacts lazily. The disciples found themselves in precisely that situation in the Garden of Gethsemane: "the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak"

  Watchman Nee

  Children, Garden, Feelings

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.356, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• He who had known us before we were even born came to know us infinitely better as he knelt in Gethsemane and as he hung on the cross of Calvary. We come to know those we serve (Mosiah 5:13; compare 1 John 2:3-4). And we certainly come to love and treasure those for whom we sacrifice. Conversely, the depth of the pain we feel in behalf of a loved one is intimately tied to the depth of the love we bear that loved one. Thus only a being filled with infinite and eternal love could perform an infinite and eternal sacrifice.

  Robert L. Millet

  Pain, Sacrifice, Treasure

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• This means that if a person fulfills his or her vocation as a steelmaker, attorney, or homemaker coram Deo, then that person is acting every bit as religiously as a soul-winning evangelist who fulfills his vocation. It means that David was as religious when he obeyed God’s call to be a shepherd as he was when he was anointed with the special grace of kingship. It means that Jesus was every bit as religious when He worked in His father’s carpenter shop as He was in the Garden of Gethsemane.

  R. C. Sproul

  Religious, Jesus, Father

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• There would be no Christmas if there had not been Easter. The babe Jesus of Bethlehem would be but another baby without the redeeming Christ of Gethsemane and Calvary, and the triumphant fact of the Resurrection.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Christmas, Baby, Jesus

  "The Wondrous and True Story of Christmas" by Gordon B. Hinckley, www.lds.org. December 2000.

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