Self-Denial Quotes for the Remnant

June 14, 2005

"Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist!"
C.T. Studd

"I never made a sacrifice. We ought not to talk of 'sacrifice' when we remember the great sacrifice which He made who left His Father's throne on high to give Himself up for us."
David Livingstone (1813-1873)

"A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing."
Martin Luther

"We must do something about the cross, and one of two things only we can do--flee it or die upon it."
A. W. Tozer

"'God hasn't taken it from me yet.' May it never be heard coming from the mouth of a Christian. These are words of rebellion! We are called to lay down our lives and give all for Messiah. He never said He would wrestle from us, that which we refuse to relinquish."
Dennis E. Green

"It is a mournful fact that most men, and indeed all men of worldly character, have so much regard to public opinion that they dare not act according to the dictates of their consciences when acting thus would incur the popular frown."
Charles Finney

"It's amazing what can be accomplished if you don't worry about who gets the credit."
Clarence W. Jones

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

"We who have Christ's eternal life need to throw away our own lives."
George Verwer

"Shall we for a moment boast in that flesh which He condemned by the Cross?"
Samuel Ridout (1855-1930)

"We love the old saints, missionaries, martyrs, and reformers. Our Luthers, Bunyans, Wesleys and Asburys, etc... We will write their biographies, reverence their memories, frame their epitaphs, and build their monuments. We will do anything except imitate them. We cherish the last drop of their blood, but watch carefully over the first drop of our own."
A. W. Tozer

"The true follower of Christ will not ask, "If I embrace this truth, what will it cost me?" Rather he will say, "This is truth. God help me to walk in it, let come what may!"
A.W. Tozer

"People who are crucified with Christ have three distinct marks:
1. they are facing only one direction,
2. they can never turn back, and
3. they no longer have plans of their own."
A.W. Tozer

Carrying the cross does mean following in Jesus' footsteps. And in His footsteps are rejection, brokenheartedness, persecution and death. There are not two Christ's - 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?
Hudson Taylor

"Singleness, simplicity, is required of me. One treasure, a single eye, and a sole Master!"
Jim Elliot

"In the books Christians buy today you will find little mention of brokenness. We are not interested in a life that might require suffering, patience, purging or the discipline of the Lord. We want our blessings … and we want them now! So we look for the Christian brand of spiritualized self-help that is quick and painless."
Lee Grady

"Live near to God, and all things will appear little to you in comparison with eternal realities."
Robert Murray McCheyne

"A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing."
Martin Luther

"One can't help but think that much of our weakness as Christians is owing to our un-Christian aversion to suffering, avoiding it at all cost and christening cowardice as wisdom."
Thabiti Anyabwile