if you have not learned to pay the smaller prices of following Christ in your daily life, you will not be prepared to pay the ultimate price in God's calling.

Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.

Let go of this world and take hold of God with both hands.

Every advance that we make for God and for His cause must be made at our inconvenience. If it does not inconvenience us at all, there is no cross in it.

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written.

All Mature Spirituality Is About Letting Go

If we would follow Jesus we must take certain definite steps. The first step, which follows the call, cuts the disciple off from his previous existence. The call to follow at once produces a new situation. To stay in the old situation makes discipleship impossible.

Costly grace is the treasure hidden in the field; for the sake of it a man will gladly go and sell all that he has. It is the pearl of great price to buy which the merchant will sell all his goods. It is the kingly rule of Christ, for whose sake a man will pluck out the eye which causes him to stumble; it is the call of Jesus Christ at which the disciple leaves his nets and follows him.

The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.

Lord, let me find my life in thee, and not in the mire of this world's favour or gain.

We won't figure out what's sacred in life if we settle for what's safe.

We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.