Discipleship Quotes
If we are serious about our discipleship, Jesus will eventually request each of us to do those very things which are most difficult for us to do.
Love is the measure of our faith, the inspiration for our obedience, and the true altitude of our discipleship.
I was used to being the smartest guy in the room, and then God dropped me in a place that was well beyond me. It was painfully awesome.
The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
There's a difference, you know, between faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow. The other one will make you sleep.
The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.
No matter how high the powers of reason, no matter how deep the intellect, no one can discover God's secret messages without paying the cost of true discipleship.
Discipleship is a daily discipline; we follow Jesus a step at a time, a day at a time
We meet God through entering into a relationship both of dependance on Jesus as our Saviour and Friend and of discipleship to Him as our Lord and Master.
Discipleship is the pursuit of holiness and happiness. It is the path to our best and happiest self.
I suppose it's unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C.S.) Lewis does, what I feel is a craftsman's joy at the sight of a superior performance.
Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.
Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.
The kingdom of heaven is worth infinitely more than the cost of discipleship, and those who know where the treasure lies joyfully abandon everything else to secure it.
You will only learn in a fight how much you've got to learn.
The genealogy of blessing always traces back to God-ordained risk.
Let us simplify our lives a little, let us make the changes necessary to focus on the simple, humble path of Christian discipleship.
Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.
Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.
...there is still a need for those of us nestled deep within the Christian bubble to look beyond the status quo and critically assess the degree to which we are really living biblically.
You can't teach a person to love something. But you can get him to feel the heat of your love for something.
Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.
The Christian life does not just evolve. It also requires specific decisions and public commitments to deepen our faith and obedience.
God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him. God is great because nothing is too small for Him, either.
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.
Bob Dylan's Christianity has been allusive, idiosyncratic, and never the sort to place him on anyone's side in any Kulturkampf.
We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom He has given the breath of life. We die in order to live.
The one indispensable requirement for producing godly, mature Christians is godly, mature Christians.
When I am not king, then THE Kingdom has its best chance of breaking through.
Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.
In the school of discipleship, suffering for Christ is never an elective course, but a required core class.
The dues of discipleship are high indeed, and how much we can take so often determines how much we can then give.
The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God.
Through discipline, discipline is the other side of discipleship. If you want to follow Jesus, you have to have discipline.
I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it.
Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.
This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.
