loyalty to Christ Quotes

If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth.

But discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ...Christ speaks to us exactly as he spoke to them. It was not as though they first recognized him as the Christ and then received his command. They believed his word and command and recognized him as the Christ--in that order.

A right heart leans on Christ, hangs on Christ, builds on Christ and cleaves to Christ.

There is no greater threat to our devotion to Christ than our service for Christ.

People have faith in 'faith' and largely forget that our confidence is not in the power of faith but in the Person and work of the Savior, Jesus Christ.

Christ is always faithful. Let us pray to be always faithful to him.

Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our lives.

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.

The true Christian hero will appear in the cause of Christ, not only when it is prevailing, but when it seems to be declining; (he) will be on the right side, though it be not the rising side.

The man that is popular with the world is not a friend of Jesus. You cannot serve two masters. The world hates Christ, and if you are a friend of the world you cannot be a friend of His. You may be sure that something is wrong with you when everybody is your friend.

It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.

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.

If I am going to know who Jesus is, I must obey Him. The majority of us don't know Jesus because we have not the remotest intention of obeying Him.

We trust as we love, and where we love. If we love Christ much, surely we shall trust him much.

To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel.

Very few of us know anything about loyalty to Christ -- For My Sake. It is that which makes the iron saint.

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

Better to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment.

Trust no one, not even the finest saint who ever walked this earth, ignore him, if he hinders your sight of Jesus Christ.

To believe in Christ is to give your heart to Christ, which means not to affirm things about Christ, but it's like what you mean when you say, "I believe in my friend."

I dare not say with Paul that I am the slave of Christ, but my highest aspiration and desire is to be the slave of Christ.