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  • Gethsemane is where He died; the cross is only the evidence. -- Leonard Ravenhill
  • I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living. -- Keir Hardie
  • For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait. -- C. S. Lewis
  • There is a deeper life. It is as deep as a personal Gethsemane and as costly as a personal Calvary. -- Leonard Ravenhill
  • In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not. -- C. S. Lewis
  • For him who fain would teach the world The world holds hate in fee- For Socrates, the hemlock cup; For Christ, Gethsemane. -- Don Marquis
  • The Bible is the story of two gardens. Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus took a stand. -- Max Lucado
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • There would be no Christmas if there had not been Easter. The babe Jesus of Bethlehem would be but another baby without the redeeming Christ of Gethsemane and Calvary, and the triumphant fact of the Resurrection. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
  • Contemplation does not ignore the 'historical Gethsemane', does not ignore the mystery of evil, guilt and its bloody atonement. The happiness of contemplation is a true happiness, indeed the supreme happiness; but it is founded upon sorrow. -- Josef Pieper
  • 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
  • Many people experience Gethsemane moments. -- Arthur Middleton
  • Lord, forgive us for the times we have read about Gethsemane with dry eyes. -- Frederick S. Leahy
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer - can put us in touch with God, our greatest source of comfort and counsel. -- Ezra Taft Benson
  • If I am perturbed by the reproach and misunderstanding that may follow action taken for the good of souls for whom I must give account; if I cannot commit the matter and go on in peace and in silence, remembering Gethsemane and the cross, then I know nothing of Calvary love. -- Amy Carmichael
  • The Savior's suffering in Gethsemane and His agony on the cross redeem us from sin by satisfying the demands that justice has upon us. He extends mercy and pardons those who repent. The Atonement also satisfies the debt justice owes to us by healing and compensating us for any suffering we innocently endure. -- D. Todd Christofferson
  • See yonder another King's garden, which the King waters with his bloody sweat-Gethsemane, whose bitter herbs are sweeter far to renewed souls than even Eden's luscious fruits. There the mischief of the serpent in the first garden was undone: there the curse was lifted from earth, and borne by the woman's promised seed. -- Charles Spurgeon
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