Discipleship Quotes

Discipleship Quote of the day

I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher. I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me.

Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.

Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

You will know as much of God, and only as much of God, as you are willing to put into practice.

His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness.

God wants us to have soft hearts and hard feet. The trouble with so many of us is that we have hard hearts and soft feet.

You teach what you know, but you reproduce what you are.

Jesus, Willard says, “does not call us to do what he did, but to be as he was, permeated with love. Then the doing of what he did and said becomes the natural expression of who we are in him.

Salvation is free, but discipleship will cost you your life

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.

We should be more concerned with reaching the lost than pampering the saved.

Nothing is really lost by a life of sacrifice; everything is lost by failure to obey God's call.

Our problem is that we are in the Word but not under the Word.

You cannot impart what you do not possess.

There's no such thing as a mistake, really. It's just an opportunity to do something else.

Take the words of Jesus and let them become the Supreme Court of the Gospel to you.

Jesus calls us to his rest, and meekness is His method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort.

Cheap grace is grace without discipleship.

Those who teach by their doctrine must teach by their life, or else they pull down with one hand what they build up with the other.

In the gospel of Jesus, sincere and costly discipleship always accompanies genuine conversion. The gospel of Jesus teaches men that a mere profession of faith alone is no sound evidence of salvation.

At every step of our Christian development and in every sphere of our Christian discipleship, pride is the greatest enemy and humility our greatest friend.

Nothing is more important for mature Christian discipleship than a fresh, clear, true vision of the authentic Jesus.

Every church needs to grow warmer through fellowship, deeper through discipleship, stronger through through worship, and larger through evangelism.

Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won where the way leads to the cross.

Be fervent in God, and let nothing grieve you, whatever you encounter.

The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything can be had for nothing.

I must first have the sense of God's possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.

You never graduate from the school of discipleship.

Even the smallest act of discipleship or the tiniest ember of belief can become a blazing bonfire of a consecrated life.

The little estimate we put on prayer is evidence from the little time we give to it.

Our Lord's conception of discipleship is not that we work for God, but that God works through us.

God’s Word is the living seed that brings new birth. It is the milk that nurtures the new life of a young Christian and the meat that builds the muscle of a mature believer.

Salvation is free, but discipleship costs everything we have

Our journey of discipleship is not a dash around the track, nor is it fully comparable to a lengthy marathon. In truth, it is a lifelong migration toward a more celestial world.

In our faith we follow in someone's steps. In our faith we leave footprints to guide others. It's the principle of discipleship

Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

The cost of discipleship is to live the life God has given us, serving in mundane ways the people he's put in our path.

Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.

Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

Discipleship is not an option. Jesus says that if anyone would come after me, he must follow me.

Thinking that education is something different from discipling our children is a sure sign that we have been 'educated' by the state. Education is discipleship.

Mine is to chew on the appropriate texts and make them delectable.

Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord's people.

The idea of waste only comes into our Christianity when we underestimate the worth of our Lord.

Life is a mess. And theology must be lived out in the midst of that mess.

Your strengths develop your confidence; your weaknesses develop your faith.

Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard.

Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.

God will not give me humility, or patience, or holiness, or love as separate investments of His grace. He has given only one gift to meet our need, His Son Christ Jesus.