Anne Graham Lotz Quotes

Discipleship is crucial to our ultimate destiny, but its cost is total commitment.

Take steps each day to be sure your life expresses commitment to Jesus.

To follow Jesus means putting him first, and stripping ourselves of all the things that oppress our hearts.

Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.

The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.

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.

My faith did not require beauty or belonging - the deeper I went into my practice, the less it required at all.

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.

Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.

To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.

Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.

The doctrine of foreordination is not a doctrine of repose; instead, it is a doctrine for second- and third-milers, and it will draw out of them the last full measure of devotion. It is a doctrine for the deep believer but it will bring only scorn from the skeptic.

He, then, that would really, thoroughly, and acceptably mortify any disquieting lust, let him take care to be equally diligent in all parts of obedience, and know that every lust, every omission of duty, is burdensome to God, though but one is so to him.

Devotion to God is still a voluntary thing; hence the differences of attainment among Christians.

Discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ.

Give your life to Christ, he'll challenge you.

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.

Kyle Idleman’s Not a Fan is a crucial message for our time. It’s a powerful call to commitment and to following Jesus with all our hearts that has challenged me in the best of ways!

What is discipleship? It is primarily obedience to the Savior. Discipleship includes many things. It is chastity. It is tithing. It is family home evening. It is keeping all the commandments. It is forsaking anything that is not good for us. Everything in life has a price. Considering the Savior's great promise for peace in this life and eternal life in the life to come, discipleship is a price worth paying. It is a price we cannot afford not to pay. By measure, the requirements of discipleship are much, much less than the promised blessings.

Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self.

Godly character flows out of devotion to God and practically confirms the reality of that devotion.

If you simply take the name of Christ upon you and call yourself His servant, yet do not obey Him, but follow your own whim, or your own hereditary prejudice, or the custom of some erroneous church-you are no servant of Christ. If you really are a servant of Christ, your first duty is to obey Him.

Get alone with Jesus and either tell Him that you do not want sin to die out in you - or else tell Him that at all costs you want to be identified with His death.

Real life begins by committing yourself completely to Jesus Christ.

In Shansi I found Chinese Christians who were accustomed to spend time in fasting and prayer. They recognized that this fasting, which so many dislike, which requires faith in God, since it makes one feel weak and poorly, is really a Divinely appointed means of grace. Perhaps the greatest hindrance to our work is our own imagined strength; and in fasting we learn what poor, weak creatures we are-dependent on a meal of meat for the little strength which we are so apt to lean upon.