Discipleship Quotes - Page 11

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. A child cannot be taught by anyone whose demand, essentially, is that the child repudiate his experience, and all that gives him sustenance.

While he was conscious of improving at every stroke, he did not feel that the other was asserting any superiority over him; and so, though more humble than at the most disastrous period of his downward voyage, he was getting into a better temper every minute.

Find the good, and praise it.

Shanahan (the head coach) doesn't allow failure to take root.

Lee was a born pedagogue, never happier than when his children were learning to do something the right way. It is a testament to Lee's affection and patience that his children did not rebel. In fact, they appear to have thrived.

A brother's sympathy is more precious than an angel's embassy.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

He had a courtly way of exclaiming over whatever was exclaimable in people – especially kids.

It is an EVIL thing to be an expert in the weaknesses of our brothers and sisters. We need to be experts in the strengths of our brothers and sisters.

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

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

Tell someone to do something, and you change their life–for a day; tell someone a story and you change their life.

There is nothing quite as destructive to the gospel of Jesus Christ as the use of language that dismisses the way Jesus talks and prays and takes up instead the rhetoric of smiling salesmanship or vicious invective.

Eugene H. Peterson

Chaucer, like Homer, writes about a journey, but as a Christian he has a different goal. Homer wanted to go home, but Chaucer's pilgrims want a place of man's true home: paradise

John Mark Reynolds

His eyes touched lightly, and passed on.

Much of our understanding of God's action in outlying is achieved in hindsight. When a particular crisis or event in our life has passed we cry out in astonishment like Jacob, "The Lord is in this place and I never knew it.

You don't realize your story is changing you until you look back.

When the convert emerges from the water, the world seems changed. The world has not changed, it is always wonderful and horrible, iniquitous and filled with beauty. But now, after baptism, the eyes that see the world have changed.

Liturgy Training Publications

If you knew how the journey was going to end, you could afford to be patient along the path.

Joseph J. Ellis

We put up a kind of spiritual firewall and make a conscious effort to shut out the headlines, because our (Bible) discussions are meant to be timeless.

It is easy to get faith into our heads. It is hard to get faith into our bloodstream.

The 20th century, the author observes, fostered the idea that fulfillment is possible on Earth.

Jennifer Senior

Who can be astonished at anything, when he has once been astonished at the manger and the cross? What is there wonderful left after one has seen the Saviour?

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Any journalist who holds the office writes in a straitjacket.

I work pretty hard for a sufficient living, and therefore – yes, I do well.

Charles Dickens

No man is considered just and virtuous who does not know whence he came and wither he is going. – Napoleon

To a great extent in spiritual things we get what we expect of the Lord. Faith alone can bring us to see Jesus.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

If God declares that all is well, ten thousand devils may declare it to be ill, but we laugh them all to scorn. Blessed be God for a faith which enables us to believe God when the creatures contradict Him.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

True spirituality is not taught, it's caught. Once our sails have been unfurled to the Spirit, henceforth our motivation for the journey toward holiness and wholeness is immense gratitude.

The power of the bleeding love of God is stronger than the power of Caesar, of the law, of Mars, Mammon, Aphrodite and the rest. This is the point that Paul grasped. And that is the reason for the Colossians' gratitude. The battle has been won.

The fight for joy is first and always a fight to see.

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

They chose to regard it as a miraculous preservation.

Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

What kind of ministry is that, just talking to people?" Criticism directed at Francis Schaeffer's plan to open an obscure spot in the Swiss Alps to those who came with questions.

A major element in Lincoln's greatness was the way in which he could hold a strong moral position without the usual accompaniment of self-righteousness.

Elton Trueblood

You will only learn in a fight how much you've got to learn.

Richard Llewellyn

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.

If I turn mine eyes upon myself, I find myself a traitor with the rest;

William Shakespeare

They (Reagan and Kennedy) had some combination of cheerfulness and vulnerability that made them seem like boys on adventure who had become lost in needed a small kindness to get them back on the right path.

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.

James MacDonald

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.

Bob Dylan's Christianity has been allusive, idiosyncratic, and never the sort to place him on anyone's side in any Kulturkampf.

Christopher Caldwell

True service is a lifestyle. It acts from the ingrained patterns of living. It springs spontaneously to meet human need.

Richard J. Foster

Radical self-denial gives the feel of adventure. If we forsake all, we even have the chance of glorious martyrdom. But in service, we must experience the many little death of going beyond ourselves. Service banishes us to the mundane, the ordinary, the trivial

Richard J. Foster

Her characters tend to err when they reject the grubby and complex circumstances of everyday life for abstract and radical notions. They thrive when they work within the rooted spot, the concrete habit, the particular reality of their town and family.

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

[T]he road to character is built by confronting your own weakness.

We never move on from the cross. We only get a more profound understanding of the cross.

The Book that made the nation was destroying the nation.

The more broken you are, the more light gets through.

Development is a voluntary process. You need a positive decision to make the right steps, but it starts with introspection.

Thomas L. Friedman

It is not great counts God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

My own spirit, soul, and body are my nearest machinery for sacred service.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

After the original rapture of conversion had settled in, (Bob) Dylan backed away from his obviously Christian lyrics and returned to his more metaphorical use of language.

In brokenness comes beauty, divine fragility.

MercyMe

God doesn't want meerly action but hearts driving action.

Are you dedicated to your patient or your ego?

M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team

Regular, modest failures are actually essential to many forms of resilience.

Weakness is not the problem, but my delusion of my strengths is.

Paul David Tripp

Something greater than me was happening. And yet, it was happening to me.

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