Quotes about Following

Discipleship is commitment to Christ. Because Christ exists, he must be followed.

The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ. Such a man knows that the call to discipleship is a gift of grace, and that the call is inseparable from the grace. But those who try to use this grace as a dispensation from following Christ are simply deceiving themselves.

This cheap grace has been no less disastrous to our own spiritual lives. Instead of opening up the way to Christ it has closed it. Instead of calling us to follow Christ, it has hardened us in our disobedience.

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.

A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.

My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing -- by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.

Nets are generally defined as devices for capturing something. In a more narrow but more important sense, we might define a net as anything that entices or prevents us from following the call of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God.

Jesus called his disciples to "follow me," but he didn't tell them where they were going.

One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.

Physically walking where Jesus walked is less important than walking as He walked.

Following Christ means following him through life, following him in every word and gesture, following him out of one clime into another.

Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.