Steven Lawson is an American pastor who also serves as a professor of Preaching at the Master’s Seminary. He is the author of numerous books, a sought after public speaker, and his quotes below, I believe, will help you to realize the cost of following Jesus.1
“Jesus is not a good way to heaven, nor even the best way. He is the only way to heaven.”
“If your repentance has not changed your life, you need to repent of your repentance.”
“Some Christians live in such fear, they act as if they believe in the sovereignty of Satan rather than the sovereignty of God.”
“We do not sit in authority over the Scripture, the Scripture sits in authority over us.”
“The greatest work God ever performs was not the creation of the universe out of nothing but is the new creation of saints out of sinners.”
“It will cost you to follow Christ, but it costs even more not to follow Him.”
“If the Bible is what it claims to be, how can we allow it to remain on a bookshelf?”
“If you are only born once, you will die twice. But if you are born twice, you will only die once.”
“At the cross, the worst about us-our sins-was laid upon Christ, and the best about Him-His righteousness-was laid upon us.”
“The Bible is shallow enough for a new believer to wade in, but deep enough for a theologian to drown in.”
“A cross without offense to the world is a cross without power in the world.”
“The voice of Christ is so powerful that it awakens the spiritually dead in the grave of sin to hear it and live.”
“In the school of discipleship, suffering for Christ is never an elective course, but a required core class.”
“Better to have small faith in a great God than to have great faith in a small god.”
“There is a vast difference between merely knowing about Christ and actually knowing Him-the difference between heaven and hell.”
“It would be easier to grow oak trees by planting marbles than for someone to be saved without the seed of the word.”
“Suffering is not an elective; it is a core course in the University of Life.”
“The heart of the new birth is the new birth of the heart.”
1All of these quotes are from the website below:
TOP 25 QUOTES BY STEVEN J LAWSON | A-Z Quotes (azquotes.com)
Amen