Quotes from In His Steps

“We must know Jesus before we can imitate Him.”
― Charles M. Sheldon, quote from In His Steps

“Must Jesus bear the cross alone And all the world go free? No, there's a cross for every one, And there's a cross for me.”
― Charles M. Sheldon, quote from In His Steps

“Our Christianity loves its ease and comfort too well to take up anything so rough and heavy as a cross. And”
― Charles M. Sheldon, quote from In His Steps

“Somehow I get puzzled when I see so many Christians living in luxury and singing 'Jesus, I my cross have taken, all to leave and follow Thee,' and remember how my wife died in a tenement in New York City, gasping for air and asking God to take the little girl too. Of course I don't expect you people can prevent every one from dying of starvation, lack of proper nourishment and tenement air, but what does following Jesus mean?”
― Charles M. Sheldon, quote from In His Steps

“But if our definition of being a Christian is simply to enjoy the privileges of worship, be generous at no expense to ourselves, have a good, easy time surrounded by pleasant friends and by comfortable things, live respectably and at the same time avoid the world's great stress of sin and trouble because it is too much pain to bear it—if this is our definition of Christianity, surely we are a long way from following the steps of Him who trod the way with groans and tears and sobs of anguish for a lost humanity; who sweat, as it were, great drops of blood, who cried out on the upreared cross, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”
― Charles M. Sheldon, quote from In His Steps

“There was almost general consent over the fact that the application of the Christ spirit and practice to the everyday life was the serious thing. It required a knowledge of Him and an insight into His motives that most of them did not yet possess.”
― Charles M. Sheldon, quote from In His Steps

“The bishop thought that night, while Rachel was singing, that if the world of sinful, diseased, depraved, lost humanity could only have the Gospel preached to it by consecrated sopranos and professional tenors and altos and basses, he believed it would hasten the coming of the Kingdom quicker than any other one force.”
― Charles M. Sheldon, quote from In His Steps

“The greatest question in all of human life is summed up when we ask, 'What would Jesus do?' if, as we ask it, we also try to answer it from a growth in knowledge of Jesus himself. We must know Jesus before we can imitate Him.”
― Charles M. Sheldon, quote from In His Steps

“Our motto will be, 'What would Jesus do?' Our aim will be to act just as He would if He was in our places, regardless of immediate results. In other words, we propose to follow Jesus' steps as closely and as literally as we believe He taught His disciples to do. And those who volunteer to do this will pledge themselves for an entire year, beginning with today, so to act.”
― Charles M. Sheldon, quote from In His Steps

“He had made money his god. As soon as that god was gone out of his little world there was nothing more to worship; and when a man's object of worship is gone he has no more to live for.”
― Charles M. Sheldon, quote from In His Steps

“Pray, Burns—pray as you never prayed before! Nothing else will save you!”
― Charles M. Sheldon, quote from In His Steps

“Is it a reproach on the form of our discipleship that the exhibition of actual suffering for Jesus on the part of those who walk in His steps always provokes astonishment as at the sight of something very unusual?”
― Charles M. Sheldon, quote from In His Steps

“No man can tell until he is moved by the Divine Spirit what he may do, or how he may change the current of a lifetime of fixed habits of thought and speech and action.”
― Charles M. Sheldon, quote from In His Steps

“I have found my cross and it is a heavy one, but I shall never be satisfied until I take it up and carry it.”
― Charles M. Sheldon, quote from In His Steps

“Somehow I get puzzled when I see so many Christians living in luxury and singing 'Jesus, I my cross have taken, all to leave and follow Thee,' and remember how my wife died in a tenement in New York City, gasping for air and asking God to take the little girl too. Of course
I
don't expect you people can prevent every one from dying of starvation, lack of proper nourishment
and tenement air, but what does following Jesus mean?”
― Charles M. Sheldon, quote from In His Steps

“Was the church then so far from the Master that the people no longer found Him in the church? Was”
― Charles M. Sheldon, quote from In His Steps

“He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also to walk even as He walked.”
― Charles M. Sheldon, quote from In His Steps

“What is it to be a follower of Jesus? What does it mean to imitate Him? What does it mean to walk in His steps?”
― Charles M. Sheldon, quote from In His Steps

“The Christianity that attempts to suffer by proxy is not the Christianity of Christ. Each”
― Charles M. Sheldon, quote from In His Steps

“After we have asked the Spirit to tell us what Jesus would do and have received an answer to it, we are to act regardless of the results to ourselves. Is that understood?”
― Charles M. Sheldon, quote from In His Steps

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