Discipleship Quotes - Page 14

Our task is to carry the Lord's peace into every situation, into every duty.

Shoddy work is not just shoddy work. It's a failure of love.

Cause every task of your day to be a sacred ministry to the Lord. however mundane your duties, for you they are a sacrament.

Richard J. Foster

Why do lazy, minimum effort employees always seem to find places where they feel "underappreciated"?

Matt Chandler

Christians ought to have a different approach to business. As believers, we should view work as both service and a form of worship.

Charles W. Colson

He wasn't an especially charismatic or commanding individual, but what he lacked in personality he emphatically made up for in diligence.

Dan Jones

A husband's work as provider will be so difficult that it can only be fulfilled in the power of the Spirit and a transformed life.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

The president notices that when he takes off his coat to dig, people take more notice of the visual than they did his preceding remarks.

Paul C. Nagel

He must become an apprentice to ordinary life.

Paul C. Nagel

Don't sweat the small stuff" doesn't work with parenting small children. They only work in small stuff. They aren't making company decisions. They are deciding whether to use a crayon on the wall. – Bill Klein

The Little Couple

Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.

Harold Bloom

Your current situation and workplace are your personal mission field. Why? Because you can reach people a church can't. You're on the front lines!

Jarrid Wilson

We have the "spotless Lamb of God" bound up in a human body. This is the One who loved us so much that He was willing to reduce Himself to a human egg. The Immaculate Conception was not just about the epitome of love and grace, it was about the willingness of the Son to travel the journey of the human experience.

Don Wilton

When the range and depth of the suffering of others and what we do to one another no longer bothers us, nor moves us to remedy the situation and stop the pain, then we have lost a part of our own humanity, our own soul.

Megan McKenna

The essence of a mature human being in religious terms is the ability to see, to be aware of others' suffering and to be touched by it.

Megan McKenna

There are two choices: to be human, made in the image of God, with Jesus; warp to be in human, consumed with greed and on aware of the pain that is inflicted upon others. Put in simple options, it is to be human and forgive, make peace in spite of all hatred, or to be in human and kill, dividing the spoils. To be dead before you die.

Megan McKenna

The heart of a Christian, who believes and feels, cannot pass the hardships and deprivations of the poor without helping them.

Louis Guanella

You can unlock spiritual things only from within.

Richard Rohr

The moral crisis she'd just gone through made her feel indulgent toward the faults, the delinquencies of others. How thoroughly a human being can be buffeted and over-mastered by fate had been borne in upon her with appalling force.

Emmuska Orczy

He keeps his voice kindly but remote. A cross between a pedagogue, soothsayer, and a benevolent uncle – that should be his tone.

Margaret Atwood

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.

Matt Perman

It is only when you suffer that you truly understand.

Jules Verne

Martin Luther used to say temptation is the best teacher for a minister.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold those opinions about.

Stephen L. Carter

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

We find it difficult to distinguish between spiritual combatants… and their hostages.

Russell D. Moore

There is a kind of listening with half an ear that presumes already to know what the other person has to say. It is an impatient, inattentive listening, that despises the brother and is only waiting for a chance to speak and thus get rid of the other person. This is no fulfillment of our obligation, and it is certain that here too our attitude toward our brother only reflects our relationship to God. It is little wonder that we are no longer capable of the greatest service of listening that God has committed to us, that of hearing our brother's confession, if we refuse to give ear to our brother on lesser subjects. Secular education today is aware that often a person can be helped merely by having someone who will listen to him seriously, and upon this insight it has constructed its own soul therapy, which has attracted great numbers of people, including Christians. But Christians have forgotten that the ministry of listening has been committed to them by Him who is Himself the great listener and whose work they should share. We should listen with the ears of God that we may speak the Word of God.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Jesus said his disciples would be known for their love, not for their placards of protest and angry letters to the editor.

Brian Zahnd

Your commitment to Jesus is a beautiful thing, but it will eventually dwindle down, unless you fully understand His commitment to you.

Carlos A. Rodriguez

He (Peter) doesn't know if he's looking into the eyes of a madman, or the eyes of a King.

Roma Downey

Jesus has to become real to us. We need to court him and get to know him better. Go on some dates with the Lord.

Sandra M. Michelle

To be in Jesus' easy yoke is an easy way of doing hard things." (p. 202)

Bill Gaultiere

In the face of Jesus’ dogged steadfastness, how could we but offer him our own loyal allegiance? As we have seen, our decision to serve Jesus should be made not in order to earn Jesus’ grace but as a response to it. He who has given so much for us can rightly call us to lay down our lives for him. Recognizing that we will continue to stumble and fall short of his impeccable standard, we nonetheless strain onward out of gratitude for his mercy and kindness to us. Why do we serve the poor or preach the Gospel? Why do we continue with the otherwise foolish work of peace-making or justice-seeking? Not out of some neurotic fear of losing God’s favor but precisely because we have tasted that favor and would do anything for the one who died to win it for us.

Michael Frost

It is one thing being disciplined to plan and it is another thing being a disciple of great work. Be your own disciplinarian.

Israelmore Ayivor

Laboratory research suggests that how we look and act in the virtual affect our behavior in the real.

Sherry Turkle

Whatever God permits to happen in your life is a gift to you. God has two goals...His Glory and Your Good!

Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

Alex had cooked, and coaxed, and helped Mark form borders around the shapeless days. Alex had given meaning to the word "servant".

Davis Bunn

God can make good use of all that happens, but the loss is real.

C.S. Lewis

The way to transmute the pain of life is to reveal the wounded side of things, evil, even, and then place the wound inside of sacred space. The Bible is about naming, facing, and then forgiving the wounds of history.

Richard Rohr

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.

Richard Rohr

Because of the Resurrection, our natural reaction must be to get past our emotional reactions as quickly as possible and reflect on what happened in light of the cross and the resurrection and our own baptisms into that defining reality – to the life-giving and life-affirming waters of forgiveness and reconciliation.

Megan McKenna

Love, its power and authority, always gets there first, comes to believe first, and always waits for the others, especially the leaders, to catch up! This is the reality of what happened among the disciples and the community of the Beloved Disciple, John, and those closest to Jesus, called His friends. They mature and develop differently from other disciples, and the community of the Church has to struggle with the fact that the last one anyone thought would be the leader was the one who betrayed Him and contributed to the dissolution of the disciples when Jesus was arrested and crucified.

Megan McKenna

Where kairos is an event word—something that has a beginning and ending—repentance (metanoia) is a process word, as is believe (pistis). The Circle is a process, a way of living that does not have a specific beginning and ending. One does not become a disciple of Jesus and stand still; discipleship is a lifestyle of learning. And this learning begins with a change of heart.

Mike Breen

The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like the truth at all because it carries responsibility, and if I actually believe these things I have to do something about them. It is so, so cumbersome to believe anything. And it isn't cool.

Donald Miller

Standing on the shoulders of the great allows you to see further than everyone.

Matshona Dhliwayo

In the time of to Augustine, the conversation in the West mostly had been a Christian reaction to outside ideas. After Augustine, the Great Conversation would be about his ideas for centuries.

John Mark Reynolds

How my emotions starred as I played! During one of this tug-of-war contest between knowing right and doing wrong, I wrote the words to a song on my own for the first time.

Jeremy Camp

I fall down I get up I fall down And the while I keep dancing.

Japanese poem

We have been shown how to fight hate without becoming hate ourselves. We have been given a Companion and a Friend and not just a good idea. We have been given joy in the midst of failure, and not just a way of winning or being right.

Richard Rohr

One of the emotional affordances of digital communication is that one can always hide behind deliberated nonchalance.

Sherry Turkle

To know there is a better story for your life and to choose something other is like choosing to die.

Donald Miller

Of his first enemy encounter, Gen. Grant said that after his initial fear, "My heart resumed its place." Grant said he suddenly realized his potential enemy he had been "as much afraid of me as I had been of him.

C. Brian Kelly

The idea of being vulnerable leaves a lot of room for choice. There is always room to be less foldable, more evil.

Sherry Turkle

Your footsteps will have more to say about your spiritual life than knowledge attained.

Ricky Maye

The choice we face is not, as many imagine, between heaven and hell. Rather, the choice is between heaven and this world. Even a fool would exchange hell for heaven; but only the wise will exchange this world for heaven.

Dave Hunt

They finally achieve a sort of outward-facing union.

David Brooks

Dinner is a cacophonous exercise of holy sanctification.

Jen Pollock Michel

The greatest gift a church can receive is to have a group of families who take their responsibilities with such Christian seriousness that they are willing to completely alter their lifestyle to raise up disciples for Jesus Christ.

Abraham Kuyper

The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is getting his way with us.

Oswald Chambers

We have taken the holistic message preached in the Old Testament and New Testaments and reduced our message to the entry point into the Kingdom.

Landa Cope

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