Quotes About Gethsemane

#1. On Pilgrim's Progress: I could not have believed beforehand that Calvinism could be painted in such exquisitely delightful colors.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#2. In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not.

C.S. Lewis

#3. Lord, forgive us for the times we have read about Gethsemane with dry eyes.

Frederick S. Leahy

#4. He (Jesus) cannot be distracted from his late-night prayer in Gethsemane.

Alex Early

#5. I literally cannot remember one joke.

Judd Apatow

#6. You must be conquerors through him who hath loved you, if conquerors at all. Our laurels must grow among his olives in Gethsemane.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#7. Summer in the deep South is not only a season, a climate, it's a dimension. Floating in it, one must be either proud or submerged.

Eugene Walter

#8. The Garden of Gethsemane narrative gives us a vivid view of Jesus' humanity".

~R. Alan Woods [1999]

R. Alan Woods

#9. It was just too tense, being with Daddy. He wanted everything done in a certain way that only he knew about. I was afraid to move half the time. One I spilled some juice on one of his foreign rugs, and he told me I would never find a husband.

Alicia Erian

#10. It is a great thing, when our Gethsemane hours come, when the cup of bitterness is pressed to our lips ... to feel that it is not fate, that it is not necessity, but divine love for good ends working upon us.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#11. Obedience makes us progressively stronger, capable of faithfully enduring tests and trials in the future. Obedience in Gethsemane prepared the Savior to obey and endure to the end on Golgotha.

Robert D. Hales

#12. A novel is a mirror travelling down the road.

Stendhal

#13. The person who truly wants nothing except his destiny no longer has others of his own kind; he stands completely alone and has only the chill of outer space around him. You know, that's Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane.

Hermann Hesse

#14. At Gethsemane: Jesus is subordinating His loudest desires to His deepest desires.

Timothy Keller

#15. You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

William Blake

#16. It's not atheists who get stuck in my caw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for awhile. We all must pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we ... But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as means of transportation.

Yann Martel

#17. As Shakespeare put it in 'King Lear,' the policeman who lashes the whore has a hot need to use her for the very offense for which he plies the lash.

Christopher Hitchens

#18. I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.

Keir Hardie

#19. We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#20. He saw you in your own Gethsemane and He didn't want you to be alone..He would rather go to hell for you than to haven without you.

Max Lucado

#21. He goes to the olive-press of Gethsemane, and draws his supplies from him who was crushed therein. The oil of gospel grace is pure and free from lees and dregs, and hence the light which is fed thereon is clear and bright.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#22. Jesus defeated satan in Gethsemane on the cross, not by directly confronting the devil, but by fulfilling the destiny to which He had been called. The greatest battle that was ever won was accomplished by the apparent death of the victor, without even a word of rebuke to His adversary!

Francis Frangipane

#23. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer ... then surely we are also permitted doubt.

Yann Martel

#24. Gethsemane is where He died; the cross is only the evidence.

Leonard Ravenhill

#25. The more easily digestible and refined the carbohydrates, the greater the effect on our health, weight and well-being.

Andrew Weil

#26. But I always connected to the people and the purity of their faith, rather than the religious code they followed.

Gregory David Roberts

#27. There will be no Christian but what will have a Gethsemane, but every praying Christian will find that there is no Gethsemane without its angel!

Thomas Binney

#28. It doesn't make any difference if his end is good; means are all we've got

Ursula K. Le Guin

#29. Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#30. The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening in Eden, but out from Gethsemane.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#31. I thank the Savior personally; for bearing all which I added to His hemorrhaging at every pore for all humanity in Gethsemane. I thank Him for bearing what I added to the decibels of His piercing soul cry atop Calvary.

Neal A. Maxwell

#32. For him who fain would teach the world The world holds hate in fee- For Socrates, the hemlock cup; For Christ, Gethsemane.

Don Marquis

#33. For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.

C.S. Lewis

#34. Many people experience Gethsemane moments.

Arthur Middleton

#35. He answers privately, reaches my reaching. In my Gethsemane, Savior and Friend.

Emma Lou Warner Thayne

#36. Terribly black must that guilt be for which nothing but the blood of the Son of God could make satisfaction. Heavy must that weight of human sin be which made Jesus groan and sweat drops of blood in agony at Gethsemane, and cry at Golgotha, My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?

J.C. Ryle

#37. Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged.

Veronica Roth

#38. When an old shepherdess in Greece can do it, why do you think I cant? (About knitting a sweater).

C. Hampton Jones

#39. This life is only one of a series of lives which our incarnated part has lived. I have little doubt of our having pre-existed; and that also in the time of our pre-existence we were actively employed. So, therefore, I believe in our active employment in a future life, and I like the thought.

Charles George Gordon

#40. We do not know, we cannot tell, no mortal mind can conceive the full import of what Christ did in Gethsemane.

Bruce R. McConkie

#41. All the historians agree that the arrest of Jesus took place in the Garden of Gethsemane at a late hour on the evening immediately preceding the day of the Crucifixion, and there is strong justification for believing that it could not possibly have been earlier than eleven-thirty.

Frank Morrison

#42. This is the centre of the gospel - this is what the Garden of Gethsemane and Good Friday are all about - that God has done astonishing and costly things to draw us near.

John Piper

#43. There is a deeper life. It is as deep as a personal Gethsemane and as costly as a personal Calvary.

Leonard Ravenhill