Christian - Disciple
All of Christ is accepted by the sincere convert. He loves not only the wages but the work of Christ, not only the benefits but the burden of Christ. [ASGTH]
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If you cannot bear a reproach for religion, never call yourself a Christian. [TDOR]
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The sins of God’s people do more to provoke God than do the sins of others (Deut 32:19). [TDOR]
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The sincere convert is not one man at church and another at home. He is not a saint on his knees and a cheat in his shop. [ASGTH]
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The (converted) man … makes conscience even of little sins and little duties. [ASGTH]
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When Christ bore our sins, he bore them all, and made provision that his people should cease from sin. [ROOS]
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The Lord Christ has made evangelical obedience the outward evidence of being a true member of his church. [AFTG]
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All who profess to be Christians but are not living holy lives are really renouncing obedience to Christ’s commands and despising his promises, preferring instead the pleasures of sin. Such people declare they have found nothing lovely in Christ’s commands, nor any happiness in keeping them, nor any assurance in Christ’s promises, nor any value in the things promised compared with the world and the pleasures of sin. [AFTG]
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The Christian has arrived at a sufficient measure of sorrow when the love of sin is purged out. [TDOR]
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The afflicted are always the best sort of Christians. [ALE]