Discipleship Quotes - Page 15

Run your race. It's the only one that will count in eternity.

You are my Beloved, on you my favor rests.' It certainly is not easy to hear that voice in a world filled with voices that shout: 'You are no good, you are ugly; you are worthless; you are despicable, you are nobody- unless you can demonstrate the opposite.' These negative voices are so loud and so persistent that it is easy to believe them. That's the great trap. It is the trap of self-rejection.

Henri Nouwen

Everytime I share Jesus Christ, I feel like a superhero!

Jane Bulos

When you choose to love someone who is no longer attractive to you, he or she will become attractive.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

Time after time during the next six months, he would put me together again.

H.W. Brands

I assumed my first undivided responsibility.

Charles Dickens

What do we advertise about You by how we serve? Do we reflect the belief shown in Jesus’ parable that You are a hard master taking what isn’t Yours? Forgive us for even brief lapses into such churlishness. Or, do we reflect a joy in serving that radiates from an intimate and time-tested knowledge of the goodness of the One we serve? Paul and Daniel were confident of this sovereign goodness even when they were prisoners rather than courtiers, and we can likewise tap into a joy that defies circumstances. When this happens, the oft-disappointed world will notice and investigate.11/02/2010 blog

Brian Eshleman

He found his irritation that the American memory could be short.

James Carl Nelson

Expect progress, not perfection.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

As the sun rises first on mountain-tops and gilds them with his light, and presents one of the most charming sights to the eye of the traveller; so is it one of the most delightful contemplations in the world to mark the glow of the Spirit's light on the head of some saint, who has risen up in spiritual stature.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

There will be no fear of your becoming lethargic if you are continually familiar with internal realities.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A graceless pastor is a blind man elected to a professorship of optics.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Because their example is powerful, they're somewhat responsible for the weaklings who copy them.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It's too late to leave the future to the futurists.

Sherry Turkle

Staffers tend to mimic their bosses, to take their key from them.

Chris Matthews

In fact, second lieutenants were primary-school teachers. Sure, teachers with guns, but a platoon commander was, nonetheless, the guy who sorted out the working day for 30 men under his command, taught their lessons, helped them with their homework, sorted out their petty squabbles and put plasters on their knees when they fell over in the playground.

Patrick Hennessey

A sacred space is not a place to hide out. It is a place where we recognize ourselves and our commitments.

Sherry Turkle

To understand desire, one needs language and flesh.

Sherry Turkle

This night he was a king before he was a man. At this time, this troubled me. Later, I would have cause to wish it were always so.

Geraldine Brooks

The common soldiers did not blame him for his excessive grief. They knew him. They knew his flaws. Indeed, I think they loved him all the more because he was flawed, as they were, and did not hide his passionate, blemished nature.

Geraldine Brooks

Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder. Leon Cass

Jonathan Haidt

He communicates authenticity to an electorate ravenous for it.

Frank Bruni

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

John Howard Griffin

It doesn't follow that the riots mean permanent hostility toward him.

Frank Herbert

My son will wear the title well, the Duke thought, and realized with a sudden chill that this was another death thought.

Frank Herbert

He made his character his platform.

H.W. Brands

When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious.

Alexis de Tocqueville

It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with tolerable zeal against the grain.

Charles Dickens

Peace is one of the most obvious earmarks of the authority of Christ.

Beth Moore

A prophet is not someone who first had an idea. He is the one to first believe in it and take it to its conclusion.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

As much as Henry Kissinger wanted to attribute historical movement to impersonal forces, he too conceded to "the difference personalities make".

Walter Isaacson

Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The longer you look at Jesus, the more you will want to serve him in his world. That is, of course, if it’s the real Jesus you’re looking at. Plenty of people in the church and outside it have made up a ‘Jesus’ for themselves, and have found that this invented character makes few real demands on them. He makes them feel happy from time to time, but doesn’t challenge them, doesn’t suggest they get up and do something about the plight of the world. Which is, of course, what the real Jesus had an uncomfortable habit of doing.

N.T. Wright

Jesus says to anyone who uses their faith or lack of faith to excuse their acts of disobedience to his call: First obey, do the external works, let go of what binds you, give up what is separating you from God's will! Do not say, I do not have the faith for that. You will not have it so long as you remain disobedient, so long as you will not take that first step. Do not say, I have faith, so I do not have to take the first step. You do not have faith, because and so long as you will not take that first step. Instead, you have hardened yourself in disbelief under the appearance of humble faith.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A disciple can be forgiven if he does not have great mental ability. He can be forgiven also if he does not display outstanding physical prowess. But no disciple can be excused if he does not have zeal. If his heart is not aflame with a red-hot passion for the Savior, he stands condemned.

William MacDonald

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

My feelings are important for many things. They are essential and valuable. They keep me aware of much that is true and real. But they tell me next to nothing about God or my relation to God. My security comes from who God is, not from how I feel. Discipleship is a decision to live by what I know about God, not by what I feel about Him or my neighbors.

Eugene H. Peterson

The desire to experience new kinds of community led a number of thoughtful and idealistic people to reject the patterns of vocation, family life and religion with which they had grown up. Their attempt to establish new patterns of social bonding in uncontaminated rural retreats can be seen as a secular monasticism, but they often discovered that to abolish the boundaries of authority, family and property created a whole series of problems which they did not have the spiritual and personal resources to solve.At their best, such groups have opened up new horizons of discipleship, but they have often learned some hard lessons about the intractable sinfulness and selfishness of partly-redeemed human nature.

Ian Breward

Whenever Christ calls us, his call leads us to death.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed. Our Brilliant Heritage, 946 R

Oswald Chambers

Christianity is a journey not a destination

John Spencer

A disciple of Jesus Christ is a visible verbal follower of Jesus Christ at the expense of the ones and things that they hold dear. It's that serious.

Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

We have created youth ministry that confuses extroversion with faithfulness. We have effectively communicated to young people that sincerely following Jesus is synonymous with being 'fired up' for Jesus, with being excited for Jesus, as if discipleship were synonymous with fostering an exuberant, perky, cheerful, hurray-for-Jesus disposition like what we might find in the glee club or at a pep rally.

James K.A. Smith

The most tragic thing anyone could ever say to us is “Oh – you're a Christian? I had no idea!” It is not who we say we are, but how we are recognized. Let's remember, “In Antioch the disciples were first called Christians “ and By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” Dear brothers and sisters, let our walk match our talk and be doers of the word...

Pastor Steve Bainbridge

The "show business," which is so incorporated into our view of Christian work today, has caused us to drift far from Our Lord's conception of discipleship. It is instilled in us to think that we have to do exceptional things for God; we have not. We have to be exceptional in ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, surrounded by sordid sinners. That is not learned in five minutes.

Oswald Chambers

The one indispensable requirement for producing godly, mature Christians is godly, mature Christians.

Kevin DeYoung

Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts about the other person, to realize his shortcomings, but only to the extent that it offers to me an occasion for forgiveness and unconditional love, as Jesus proves to me.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Jesus calls us to his rest, and meekness is His method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort.

A.W. Tozer

A whole nation cannot rise above itself.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks.

Harold Bloom

I think I should be allowed to be only fair, or even mediocre, for a while.

Jim Bouton

Politics is not leadership. It never has been. It never will be.

Richie Norton

Do they desire to join me in thanksgiving when they hear how, by your gift, I have come close to you, and do they pray for me when they hear how I am held back by my own weight? ...A brotherly mind will love in me what you teach to be lovable, and will regret in me what you teach to be regrettable. This is a mark of a Christian brother's mind, not an outsider's--not that of 'the sons of aliens whose mouth speaks vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity' (Ps. 143:7 f.). A brotherly person rejoices on my account when he approves me, but when he disapproves, he is loving me. To such people I will reveal myself. They will take heart from my good traits, and sigh with sadness at my bad ones. My good points are instilled by you and are your gifts. My bad points are my faults and your judgements on them. Let them take heart from the one and regret the other. Let both praise and tears ascend in your sight from brotherly hearts, your censers. ...But you Lord...Make perfect my imperfections

Augustine of Hippo

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.

Robert A. Heinlein

The engine that drives all your activities is hope. What you hope in shapes you.

Matt Chandler

James Gordon Bennett said he aimed to be, "serious in my aims but full of frolic in my means.

Harold Holzer

You should train disciples and followers to work and perform better than you did

Sunday Adelaja

We can actually live out the trials and temptations of the day before they come. We can in prayer deal with all our unrighteous aspirations, selfishness, perverse inclinations, impatience, anger, procrastination. This is a form of spiritual creation.

Stephen Covey

Jesus-shaped spirituality hears Jesus say "believe and repent," but the call that resonates most closely in the heart of a disciple is "follow me." The command to follow requires that we take a daily journey in the company of other students. It demands that we be lifelong learners and that we commit to constant growth in spiritual maturity. Discipleship is a call to me, but it is a journey of "we.

Michael Spencer

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