“This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.”
Source: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 80
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“Jesus awakens, challenges and inspires us to take up the cross and follow”
The Personality of Jesus (1932)
Context: By his own experience of God and his estimate of man, by his emphasis upon and practice of brotherhood, by his repudiation of hatred and violence, while attacking with audacity deeply entrenched inequities, and by his vicarious suffering on the cross, Jesus awakens, challenges and inspires us to take up the cross and follow in his sacrificially redemptive steps. Thus we are saved and thus society must be redeemed.

Nobel Address (1991)

Source: Discipleship (1937), Discipleship and the Cross, p. 88.
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“There is an immeasurable distance between submission to the cross and acceptance of it.”
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 170.

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 102.

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Source: Discipleship (1937), Discipleship and the Cross, p. 85