Discipleship Quotes

Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.

Frasier (Responding to the suggestion that he undertake the difficult work of closure in a relationship): "What you just said about my success made a lot of sense. I tuned you out after that.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend, so I figure I better get moving.

True knowledge of God is born out of obedience.

We do not handle suffering. Suffering handles us.

Not every story started off big enough to notice.

It is only when you suffer that you truly understand.

Never base motivation or fear, entirely.

The line between spontaneity and stupidity can be very thin.

There is nothing Christ dislikes more than for His people to make a showpiece of Him and not to use Him.

Unlike most politicians who follow their audience, (Robert) Kennedy tried to lead his.

The struggle against the weakness in yourself is never a solitary struggle. No person can achieve self-mastery or his or her own.

The thing you do with a boy it is to show him all the to show. Don't hold nothing back.

Any journalist who holds the office writes in a straitjacket.

Faith is as precious to die by as it is to live by.

If thou rememberest that thou art going to heaven, thou wilt not sleep on the road. If thou thinkest that hell is behind thee, and the devil pursuing thee, thou wilt not loiter.

Do your best, and your best will be growing better.

Sometimes the right thing to do will cost us our greatest sacrifices, but the rewards will always outweigh our losses

The Jesus Movement had survived the fad phase and was settling down for the long haul.

The world commands our desire for purity but bids that we not be too precise about it.

What could make a man stands taller than a newborn son?

When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious.

The repentance we are called to is about choosing one audience over another.

God never encourages self-reliance.

The president notices that when he takes off his coat to dig, people take more notice of the visual than they did his preceding remarks.

It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic.

Kids don't always stop to judge or analyze a new experience unless the adults around them react strongly. Otherwise, they just take in the experience and move on to the next one.

It took him (Washington) more than a year to gain control over his own aggressive instincts.

The counselee should be aware that you are not God. Better yet, she should be aware that you are aware that you are not God.

Persecution for Christians is not a possibility, it's a promise, it's not a maybe, it's a surely! Following Jesus can mean finding the trouble you've been looking for!

True love is generative. It is the only kind that makes more of itself as it goes along.

The cornerstone of the Roman legionnaires' astonishing fighting spirit can be attributed to their training.

We are to be generous not just in the results of our work, but also IN our work.

He must become an apprentice to ordinary life.

If a church is good at making disciples it will be good at making leaders because in the end, a good spiritual formation plan will lead to an accelerated spiritual multiplication.

When it comes to doing something about what is wrong in the world, Jesus is best known for his fondness for the minute, the invisible, the quiet, the slow – yeast, salt, seeds, light. And manure.

Faith enables you to hold on loosely without letting go.

The only way your child will grow out of their dependency into self-sufficient adults is for you to essentially abandon your own independence for 20 years or so.

We sucked in atheism with our canned milk.

Do what you are doing. Monastic motto

The Atreides are known to start late getting there growth.

I found myself speaking more slowly (in an attempt to obey the Bible in speech), as if I was speaking French instead of English.

It is a wicked sophistry to justify the worldliness of the Church by the cross of Christ.

They chose to regard it as a miraculous preservation.

Tragedy cannot take place around a type. Suffering is the most individualizing thing on earth.

A big part of me needed something outside myself to tell me who I was. The thing that had been designed to tell me who I was was gone.

On Christ's attitude toward His disciples: "If I gave away My big all to get to you, can you give away your little all to follow Me?

wonderful people are made, not born – that the people I admired had achieved an unfakeable inner virtue, built slowly from specific moral and spiritual accomplishments.

It is easier to lose a thosuand disciples than to win over one.

G-rated language is making me a less angry person. Behavior shapes emotion.