Disciple Quotes
There are two things that we should avoid, oh disciple! A life of pleasures, that is low and vain. A life of mortification, that is useless and vain.
No one whose first concern is feeling good can be a disciple. We are called to carry a cross and to glorify God.
You can't find a YouTube clip to become a craftsman, friend, parent - or disciple of Christ. It's all of grace. And to grow in that grace, you need two things: time and community.
Our work begins where God's grace has laid the foundation; we are not to save souls, but to disciple them.
Our Lord sent His disciples out as sheep among wolves; now the wolves are being invited into the sheepfold.
Our deepest joy comes from Christ: remaining with him, walking with him, being his disciples.
The disposition to give a cup of cold water to a disciple is a far nobler property than the finest intellect. Satan has a fine intellect, but not the image of God.
Religion itself is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better.
Even a pandit comes to grief by giving instruction to a foolish disciple, by maintaining a wicked wife, and by excessive familiarity with the miserable.
Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.
I am proud to be a Sikh and am a true disciple of Guru Gobind Singh, who sacrificed his entire family for the Sikh religion.
It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.
No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
Discipline comes from the same root word as disciple, and implies patience and teaching on our part. It should not be done in anger.
Imitators? All right! Disciples if you like. But disciples be damned. It's not interesting.
A disciple asked, "Who is a Master?" The Master replied, "Anyone to whom it is given to let go of the ego. Such a person's life is then a masterpiece.
... you are not Christ's disciple, in the sense of following him, if this is not your way of life: rejected and slain daily!
Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.
...for chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardour of a lover, the humility of a disciple.
If you have this extraordinary thing going in your life, then it is everything; then you become the teacher, the disciple, the neighbour, the beauty of the cloud - you are all that, and that is love.
Christianity spreads through the joy of disciples who know that they are loved and saved.
Let a disciple live as Christ lived, and he will easily believe in living again as Christ does.
Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.
There is only one difference between teacher and disciple: the former is slightly less afraid than the latter.” ~Deidre O’Neill, known as Edde (p. 213)
A disciple is one who thinks, feels and acts like Jesus Christ. It is being conformed to the image of Christ as Romans 8:28-29 states-that God's No.1 purpose in our lives is to make us like Jesus.
If I am a Pariah, I will be all the more glad, for I am the disciple of a man, who - the Brahmin of Brahmins - wanted to cleanse the house of a Pariah. (here "the man" means Ramakrishna)
The spiritual master can instruct the disciple though many different formats.
It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer
Real men don't dance to other people's tune, instead, they play for others to dance.