Discipleship Quotes

You know after any truly initiating experience that you are part of a much bigger whole. Life is not about you henceforward, but you are about life.

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

Timothy J. Keller

According to Aquinas, effort may not be the best measure of our virtue.

Jen Pollock Michel

When you are loved well, you want more of it. The only reason I believe anyone would not desire to be a disciple of Christ is because they fail to realize just how well loved they are by him. How could you not want to be with someone who loves you well?

Sandra M. Michelle

I found myself with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause.

Charles Dickens

I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that it is authentic.

Change from despair to joy he made her extremely beautiful.

Margaret Landon

Sometimes the imagination could be even crueler than the bone saw.

It is not loving to impose our own grid onto others. We need to understand their situation and their needs accurately, and this comes from listening to them, not coming in with our own assumptions.

Jesus loved manhood so much, that He delighted to honour it; and since it is a high honour, and indeed, the greatest dignity of manhood, that Jesus is the Son of man,

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

If virtue does not equal powers, powers will be misused.

John Howard Griffin

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!

Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

The point at which things happen is a decision. In stead of focusing on yourself, focus on how you can help someone else.

There is no shortcut for hard work that leads to effectiveness. You must stay disciplined because most of the work is behind the scenes.

Embrace who you are and your divine purpose. Identify the barriers in your life, and develop discipline, courage and the strength to permanently move beyond them, and keep moving forward.