Emily Dickinson Quotes

I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace.

I would rather die for Christ than rule the whole earth.

I am writing to all the Churches and I enjoin all, that I am dying willingly for God's sake, if only you do not prevent it. I beg you, do not do me an untimely kindness. Allow me to be eaten by the beasts, which are my way of reaching to God. I am God's wheat, and I am to be ground by the teeth of wild beasts, so that I may become the pure bread of Christ.

A faith gained in strength only when people were willing to lay down their lives for it.

When you come to Christ, you have to give up all the other gods.

Jesus says if you want to have me, you must give up that other thing that has you.

It is better for me to die in behalf of Jesus Christ, than to reign over all the ends of the earth.

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

Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.

May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs - let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.

Now I begin to be a disciple... Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment... come upon me, so long as I attain to Jesus Christ.

I know the word 'sacrifice.'

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

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.

The Bible tells us that there are some things worth fighting for. In fact, the Bible says there's some things worth dying for.

The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray

For all have not the gift of martyrdom.

There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half. They will give up possessions, friends and honors, but it touches them to closely to disown themselves.

Follow Christ for His own sake, if you follow Him at all.

Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

All my desire was the conversion of the heathen... I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world.

Christ's followers cannot expect better treatment in the world than their Master had.

I never said the way of Christ is easy. Are you prepared to let go of everything He would not approve?

Now do I begin to be a disciple of Christ, and care for nothing in this world, that so I may find Jesus. Let fire, or the cross, or wild beasts, or the breaking of my bones, or the cutting of me to pieces, or the shattering of my whole body, yea, all the tortures of the devil - let them all come upon me, only let me enjoy my God.

When you follow Christ, it must be a total burning of all your bridges behind you.