Basil Hume Quotes

If any want to become my followers," Jesus says. Following him is not something that is self-evident, even among the disciples. No one can be forced, no one can be expected to follow him. ... "If any want to follow me, they must deny themselves ... and take up their cross.

While salvation is a free gift, the 'winning Christ' can only be through unreserved consecration and unquestioning obedience. Nor is this a hardship, but the highest privilege.

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.

Followers of Jesus who count the cost and are willing to take up their crosses after him must have broad shoulders.

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

What will you and I give for Christmas this year? Let us in our lives give to our Lord and Savior the gift of gratitude by living His teachings and following in His footsteps.

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.

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

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

He who does Christ's work must stay with Christ always.

A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so.

Adoration is caring for God above all else.

To follow Christ is to become more like Him. It is to learn from His character.

To be a Christian who is willing to travel with Christ on his downward road requires being willing to detach oneself constantly from any need to be relevant, and to trust ever more deeply the Word of God.

For many, living a Christlike life every day may be even more difficult than laying down one's life.

I think that when you follow Christ, one of the things that happens when you start listening to His voice is that you really are alone.

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

God requires you individually to come up to the point, to make an entire surrender. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Loving the church also means having the courage to make difficult, trying choices, having ever before oneself the good of the church and not one's own.

Christian life means sacrifice.

Saints are ordinary people who love Jesus, try to be like him, are faithful to the duties of their state in life, sacrifice themselves for their neighbor, and keep their hearts and minds free of this world.

I do everything I do to glorify God.

Jesus didn't say that if you wanted to follow Him you could do it in a lukewarm manner. He said, 'Take up your cross and follow Me.'

Carrying the cross does mean following in Jesus' footsteps. And in His footsteps are rejection, brokenheartedness, persecution and death. There are not two Christs - an easy going one for easy going Christians, and a suffering one for exceptional believers. There is only one Christ. Are we willing to follow His lead?

Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.