Why Should You Deny Yourself? Quotes

“J. C. Ryle, the nineteenth-century English bishop, wrote, “Surely a Christian should be willing to give up anything which stands between him and heaven. A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing! A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.”
― Ryan M. McGraw, Why Should You Deny Yourself?: Cultivating Biblical Godliness Series

“A working definition of self-denial is that principle by which, regardless of personal cost, we believe and do whatever Christ teaches us and reject and flee from whatever He forbids us.”
― Ryan M. McGraw, Why Should You Deny Yourself?: Cultivating Biblical Godliness Series

“Thou hadst better all the world speak against thee than to have God and thy conscience accuse thee for not doing thy duty.”
― Ryan M. McGraw, Why Should You Deny Yourself?: Cultivating Biblical Godliness Series

“The Holy Spirit replicates the life, death, and resurrection of Christ in every Christian.”
― Ryan M. McGraw, Why Should You Deny Yourself?: Cultivating Biblical Godliness Series

“they do well to admit that they need help, but Christ calls men to confess that they are beyond help.”
― Ryan M. McGraw, Why Should You Deny Yourself?: Cultivating Biblical Godliness Series

“Surely a Christian should be willing to give up anything which stands between him and heaven.”
― Ryan M. McGraw, Why Should You Deny Yourself?: Cultivating Biblical Godliness Series