Discipleship Quotes - Page 10

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.

Augustine of Hippo

God has to work in the soul in secret and in darkness because if we fully knew what was happening, and what Mystery, transformation, God and Grace will eventually ask of us, we would either try to take charge or stop the whole process.

San Juan de la Cruz

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

Larry Eskridge

In the sympathy of Christ we find a sustaining power.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The Holy Ghost is no temporary gift, He abides with the saints. We have but to seek Him aright, and He will be found of us. He is jealous, but He is pitiful; if He leaves in anger, He returns in mercy. Condescending and tender, He does not weary of us, but awaits to be gracious still.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I always have the feeling we are merely fearfully trying to save room for God; I would rather speak of God at the center than at the limits, in strength rather than weakness, and thus in human life and goodness rather than in death and guilt.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We need both reverence and obedience. If we worship but do not walk in obedience and discipline, we are emotional, lacking self-control and godly character. If we obey God’s commandments but are not true worshipers, we become religious and judgmental. As the Pharisees in Jesus’ day, we may miss the real meaning and purpose, even God Himself.

Amy Layne Litzelman

Christian spirituality combines a sense of the awe and majesty of God with a sense of His intimate presence.

N.T. Wright

(Pastor Chuck) Smith told his elders in no uncertain terms that if the church had to turn away young people because of bare feet and clothes that they would be better off ripping up the carpet and replacing the pews with steel folding chairs.

Larry Eskridge

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

Watchman Nee

And morning came… It still comes. Our God is here, Emmanuel, among us, always coming towards us, always standing behind us, always standing up for us, always standing with us in solidarity in communion asking us to come with Him now as disciple, as follower, as believer, as a friend, as intimate beloved child of God, now and forever.

Megan McKenna

We ascribe to God. We don't add to Him.

John Piper

When we shift from personal purity to personal happiness, we lose biblical hope because we are not focusing on God's agenda, we are focusing on our own. God's agenda is guaranteed on our agenda is not.

James MacDonald

When grace has won the day, the worldling seeks the world to come.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

This wasn't a legalistic play. He simply wanted more and more of God.

Matt Chandler

Never was living beauty so enchanting as a dying Saviour.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

This child-like spirit soon perceives the grandeur of the Father "in heaven," and ascends to devout adoration, "Hallowed be Thy name." The child lisping, "Abba, Father," grows into the cherub crying, "Holy, Holy, Holy.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It is the heaven-born instinct of a gracious soul to seek shelter from all ills beneath the wings of Jehovah. A hypocrite, when afflicted by God, resents the infliction, and, like a slave, would run from the Master who has scourged him

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It was well to be Martha and serve, but better to be Lazarus and commune.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I've never found time to indulge more than a single ambition.

Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr.

The intensity of the love of the upright is not so much to be judged by what it appears as by what the upright long for. It is our daily lament that we cannot love enough.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I’m feeling very thin and vulnerable, in a good way.

Amy Layne Litzelman

If I can hold God's attention, I can hold the world's..

Dolly Parton

We are hardwired for glory because we are hardwired for God.

Paul David Tripp

The more loftily we see Christ enthroned, and the more lowly we are when bowing before the foot of the throne, the more truly shall we be prepared to act our part towards Him.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Romance depends upon imperfect knowledge.

Harold Bloom

Terror and rapture to Emily Dickinson are alternative words for "transport".

Harold Bloom

Only he who cries out for the persecuted Jews can sing Gregorian chants. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Jen Pollock Michel

As we gaze on Christ, the mind is informed, and the heart is inflamed, and the body begins to line up.

Matt Chandler

J.R.R. Tolkien told a questioning correspondent, life's purpose is to know, praise, and thank God.

Philip Zaleski

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

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Jesus did not command us to "develop" leaders. He commanded us to make "disciples". The world "develops" leaders, the Church "disciples" them. The two are not the same.

John Paul Warren

Being a “Christian” – a word used only three times in the New Testament – is not Jesus’ goal for his people. But the making of a community of revolutionary followers or “disciples” – a word used nearly three hundred times in the New Testament – seems to be exactly the goal. The church must return to these roots. The church must become a way of life, an alternative lifestyle, a counter-community of Christ-followers. Church must once again become a people who are on “The Way” formed by the words and way of Jesus.

Ronnie McBrayer

Like the hub of a wheel, the church’s corporate life is an extension of the good news that God was in Christ reconciling the whole world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them.

Harold L. Senkbeil

If colleges are going to justify themselves, they are going to have to thrive at those things that require physical proximity. That includes moral and spiritual development. Very few of us cultivate our souls as hermits. We do it through small groups and relationships and in social contexts.

David Brooks

We would like a church that again asserts that God, not nations, rules the world, that the boundaries of God's kingdom transcend those of Caesar, and that the main political task of the church is the formation of people who see clearly the cost of discipleship and are willing to pay the price.

Stanley Hauerwas

Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only deceived; the fruit that seemed so precious is still green on the inside, and disrespected hands ungratefully toss aside what has so disappointed them.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

You cannot have a moral holiday and remain moral, nor can you have a spiritual holiday and remain spiritual. God wants you to be entirely his, and this means that you have to watch to keep yourself fit. It takes a tremendous amount of time. Some of us expect to “clear the numberless ascensions”* in about two minutes.

Oswald Chambers

All of life comes in seed form – not as monuments.

Amy Layne Litzelman

It takes courage to seek God, and courage to wait for His reply.

John Eldredge

Better to wait actively than passively.

Stephen L. Carter

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.

Eugene H. Peterson

The Atreides are known to start late getting there growth.

Frank Herbert

Help our response, Lord, not to be, "WHAT are You doing?!" Instead, give us the perspective to ask, "Lord, what would You teach?

Brian Eshleman

Being that 'reason is not antithetical to faith' (Woods) and that Pentecost established the Reality of super-nature (Lewis) and that 'theology matters' (Wimber), then 'empowered evangelicalism' (Nathan) is the natural expression of discipleship."~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

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

Hadewijch

Prayer is listening.

Søren Kierkegaard

There is a rich literature on how to break out of quandary thinking. It suggests that sometimes it helps to turn from the abstract to the concrete.

Sherry Turkle

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

Charles Dickens

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.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The nobility of England would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. But you'll labor like scholars over a bulldog's pedigree.

Robert Bolt

Many beginners also at times possess great spiritual avarice. They hardly ever seem content with the spirit God gives them. They become unhappy and peevish because they don't find the consolation they want in spiritual things. Many never have enough of hearing counsels, or learning spiritual maxims, or keeping them and reading books about them. They spend more time in these than in striving after mortification and the perfection of the interior poverty to which they are obliged.

San Juan de la Cruz

She had been carried away by the need to defend herself.

Stephen L. Carter

The whitest robes, unless their purity be preserved by divine grace, will be defiled by the blackest spots.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Trying to know God and serve Him before we come to love Him is exhausting.

Beth Moore

Do what you are doing. Monastic motto

Rick Perlstein

We listened, as all boys in their better moods will listen (ay, and men too for the matter of that), to a man whom we felt to be, with all his heart and soul and strength, striving against whatever was mean and unmanly and unrighteous in our little world. It was not the cold, clear voice of one giving advice and warning from serene heights to those who were struggling and sinning below, but the warm, living voice of one who was fighting for us and by our sides, and calling on us to help him and ourselves and one another.

Thomas Hughes

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.

Joy Davidman

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.

John Updike

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