Discipleship Quotes - Page 13

(Taft's mother's) losing her firstborn had convinced her that children are treasures lent not given and that they may be recalled at any time. Parents, she firmly believed, could never love their children too much.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

What makes a mother? Looking at your child and identifying emotion

Jennifer Senior

The goodness of the mother is written in the gaiety of the child.

When young people are insecure, they find ways to manufacture love tests – personal metrics to reassure themselves.

Children make theories when they are confused or anxious.

A Christian understanding of the world sees a child's character not as genetically determined but as shaped to a significant degree by parental discipleship and discipline.

Russell D. Moore

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

Flannery O'Connor

Though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little.

If we cannot all FEEL alike, we can all FEED alike on the Bread Life.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I'm the only English thing they can vent their anger on.

Jesus was trying to present value of a life of vulnerability in which one would have practical and needed experience of the same. It would be a life without baggage, so one would learn to accept others and their culture instead of always carrying along our own country's assumptions and calling them the Gospel.

The mother was conflicted between what she knows that what's possible.

Perhaps, she had dreamed, she would teach some future King, shaping his child mind for a new and better world.

Margaret Landon

Fixate on whole cultures, not specific pieces of poverty. No specific intervention is going to turn around the life of a child or an adult in any consistent way, but if you can surround a person with a new culture, and different web of relationships, then they will absorb new habits of thought and behavior in ways you will never be able to measure or understand. And if you do surround that person with a new, enriching culture, then you had better keep surrounding them with it, because if they slip back into a different culture, and most of the gains will fade away.

How vigilant we must be to ensure that we don’t allow our impression of Jesus to be held captive by the prevailing mores of our secular culture! Rather, it is essential that we continue to return to the Gospels to ensure that the reverse occurs: to allow Jesus to hold our hearts and imaginations captive in response to the dominant thinking of our time. For exiles trying to live faithfully within the host empire of post-Christendom, the Gospel stories are our most dangerous memories. They continue to fire our imaginations and remind us that it’s possible to thrive on foreign soil while serving Yahweh, but it’s the kind of thriving that often rejects popular wisdom. These stories are the standard by which we judge all other stories, all other descriptors of life today. If, after reading these dangerous biblical stories, you can’t imagine Jesus the Messiah as a televangelist, strutting around on stage in a flashy suit, playing it up for the cameras, then you are forced to reject this image and seek another mode of being Christ today.

The formal definition of impact is a forcible contact between two things, and God has designed our lives for a collision course with the world.

We will go no place where we cannot take our Master with us. While others take their liberty to sin, We will not renounce our liberty to rebuke and confront them.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

How to teach again what has been taught correctly it incorrectly 1000 thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is the hero's ultimate difficult task. How to render back into light-world language the speech-defying pronouncements of the dark? Many failures attest to the difficulties of this life-affirmative threshold.

Joseph Campbell

I'm Jewish in the way Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.

This is not an issue of geography. He IS of two worlds wherever he goes.

The first 10 days of a cattle drive were the most critical, as a stampede was most likely when the cattle were closest to their habitual home.

In the context of today, this WAS heroism.

John Howard Griffin

Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to "receive a flow of telegrams alternating news of a British victory by sea and a British victory by land.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Prison does not silence ideas whose time has come.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Lewis is like a gateway, making the riches of Deep Church more accessible.

Alister E. McGrath

I liked to put young and old in the same room, because they would certainly have different takes on the same problem.

Antonio J. Méndez

I take account of my life and find that I have lived a lot and learned very little.

It only makes sense to me when I can get in trouble for it. – Maya

Girl Meets World

We have created a culture of leadership "development" in the Church at the expense of ignore the ministry of the Church to making disciples.

John Paul Warren

The only way to be productive is to realize we don't HAVE TO be productive. Our goal is to PLEASE God, not APPEASE God.

Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of the church

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Exercise and proper eating habits are very important, since the Bible says that the body is God’s holy temple, but I don’t think that superbodies equate with committed Christian discipleship. Some of the greatest saints I’ve known have been those with physical infirmities.

Let us always remember that Christ calls men and women not only to trust Him as Savior, but also to follow Him as Lord. That call to discipleship must be part of our message if we are to be faithful to Him.

To be a disciple is to be committed to Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord and committed to following Him every day. To be a disciple is also to be disciplined in our bodies, minds, and souls.

Our minds must be set always to seek the will of the Lord. Following the progressive discipline revealed through the Bible will result in a walk of obedience to God.

God does not discipline us to subdue us but to condition us for a life of usefulness and blessedness. In His wisdom, He knows that an uncontrolled life is an unhappy life, so He puts reins on our wayward souls that they may be directed into the paths of righteousness.

It is no accident that the words discipline and disciple resemble each other in the English language. The most common word in the Gospels for a Christian is disciple.

Christ never told his disciples that they would get an Academy Award for their performances, but He did tell them to expect to have troubles.

Jesus Christ spoke frankly to His disciples concerning the future . . .In unmistakable language He told them that discipleship means a life of self-denial, and the bearing of a cross.

Many Christians want the benefits of their belief, but they hesitate at the cost of discipleship.

To be a disciple of Jesus means to learn from Him, to follow Him. The cost may be high.

We are commissioned to make disciples, to bring them into the same direct relationship with Christ as those who left their nets and their fishing boats to become “fishers of men.

Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won where the way leads to the cross.

Faith is an action. He (one criminal on the cross) puts himself one step lower than where he was, sharing Jesus' place of poverty, insecurity, and the focus of rage. Remember me. And he will be remembered, because of his association with the Crucified One.

Who are we aligning ourselves with? Are we aligning ourselves with the presence of God as it is abused, broken, bleeding, and mocked and scorned even now in this world? Do we take that one step down, risking insecurity, violence, guilt by association, to stand beside those who are both victim and accused, and public sinner – criminal and despised in society?

You've been told that you're broken, that you're damaged goods and should be labeled victims. I don't buy it. The truth, instead, is that you are the only folks with the skills, determination, and values to ensure American dominance in this chaotic world.

Hurt is a great teacher, maybe the greatest of all.

People who have been initiated "broke through in what felt like breaking down".

Resurrection hope turned those who believed it into a counter-empire, an alternative society that knew the worst that tyrants could do and knew that the true God had the answer.

Survivor" is not a label you choose for yourself.

At Gethsemane: "Jesus is subordinating His loudest desires to His deepest desires.

Timothy J. Keller

King was a transformed person. Evil was no longer a theory.

Pain is holy ground in a person's life.

Paul looked down at the hand that had known pain, and then up to the Reverend Mother. The sound of her voice contained a difference than from any other voicing his experience. The words were outlined in brilliance. There was an edge to them.

The unavoidable harshness of life surprised none of them, for they were Christians one and all, believing that they inhabited a fallen world, albeit one filled with God's grace.

The idyll ended, as idylls must.

Thy faith never looks so grand in summer weather as it does in winter?

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

Abraham Lincoln

watch out for schools that promise your kids will "experience success." I'm teaching Plato's Dialogues these days, and I noticed that Socrates never let his students experience success. Socrates won the argument every time.

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