What did Christ give up for us? Let that question blot out “self-denial,” from the Christian’s vocabulary. When you think the gospel makes severe requisitions, by requiring all, go up to Mount Calvary, and weep over such suggestions. See the blood of your Immanuel so freely gushing from a heart that never exercised towards you any emotion but love; love unspeakable—love unsought—and love for the guilty. Go hide your head in shame and penitence, at such a thought. It is a glorious privilege, my young friend, to give up all to Christ.
Jared Bell Waterbury — [Jared Bell Waterbury], Advice to a Young Christian, on the Importance of Aiming at an Elevated Standard of Piety, by a Village Pastor, with an introductory essay by the Rev. Dr. Alexander of Princeton (New York: Robert Carter, 1848), Letter XXVIII, p. 182
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