Simon Raven Quotes

Discipleship, following Jesus Christ is the toughest thing that you're going do in your whole life. You're not going to find anything tougher.

Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.

The greatest word of Jesus to His disciples is abandon

Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You.'

It will cost you everything to follow the Lord. And it will cost you even more to be His man for this hour.

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be.

To be Christian it will cost a man his love of ease.

Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.

I want to give myself totally to Him...I want to live no longer but for Him.

If the life we live in this world is wholly for Christ, it is a life of daily surrender.

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

Being a disciple of Jesus Christ is not an effort of once a week or once a day. It is an effort of once and for all.

If I had a thousand pounds, China should have it. If I had a thousand lives, China should have them. No! Not China, but Christ. Can we do too much for Him?

Jesus' call to commitment is clear: He wants all or nothing.

When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

True faith is focused in and on the Lord Jesus Christ and always leads to action.

The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.

For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.

There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.

Conversion is an offering of self, of love, and of loyalty we give to God in gratitude for the gift of testimony.

Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.

Some men are willing to die for their faith, but they are not willing to fully live for it. Christ both lived and died for us.

I saw that giving even all my life to God (supposing it possible to do this and go no further) would profit me nothing unless I gave my heart, yea, all my heart, to Him.