Quotes about Following

Christian, your whole life is to be one continuous following of the Lord.

The Christian life is a life that consists of following Jesus.

The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God.

You are not Christ's disciple, in the sense of following him, if this is not your way of life: rejected and slain daily!

There cometh one mightier than I [John the Baptist] after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.

To follow implies not only the denying of one's own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty, but it also implies that your motive in following is reward.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

Too often, we have substituted the messenger for the message. As a result, we spent a great deal of time worshiping the messenger and trying to get other people to do the same. Too often this obsession became a pious substitute for actually following what he taught—and he did ask us several times to follow him, and never once to worship him.

Let this be thy whole endeavor, this thy prayer, this thy desire,-that thou mayest be stripped of all selfishness, and with entire simplicity follow Jesus only.

When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way, we find a consistent peace that carries us through both plenty and poverty.

By learning of Him, by believing in Him, by following Him, there is the capacity to become like Him.

Running for office, or suggesting you might, is no longer about being a politician but being an independent opinion or sensibility entrepreneur. You're looking for an audience to identify with you. Rather than trying to convince a majority of the electorate, you're looking to cull your particular following.