Charles M. Sheldon Quotes

#1. He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also to walk even as He walked.

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#2. 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.

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#3. 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.

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#4. Jesus is a great divider of life. One must walk parallel with Him or directly across His way.

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#5. 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?

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#6. Good resolutions are like babies crying in church. They should be carried out immediately.

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#7. 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.

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#8. 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.

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#9. 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?

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#10. 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.

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#11. Pray, Burns - pray as you never prayed before! Nothing else will save you!

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#12. Our Christianity loves its ease and comfort too well to take up anything so rough and heavy as a cross. And

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#13. Was the church then so far from the Master that the people no longer found Him in the church? Was

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#14. The Christianity that attempts to suffer by proxy is not the Christianity of Christ. Each

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#15. We must know Jesus before we can imitate Him.

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