Discipleship Quotes - Page 4

Small groups are the place to push past Bible knowledge and on to life application so that we can see people's lives transform more and more into the image of Christ.

James MacDonald

If our counseling is truly Christ-centered, then the topic of forgiveness will inevitably come up in the journey toward growth and change.

James MacDonald

The free man does what he likes in his working time and in his spare time what is required of him. The slave does what he is obliged to do in his working time and what he likes only when he is not at work.

Eric Gill

Edmondson has incisively discussed the ways college campuses have grown akin to upscale retirement homes for the very young, where the promise of intellectually demanding courses ranks far below the lure of new gymnastic facilities.

Maureen Corrigan

That is the Proctor. He is our Cerberus; he has to keep all undergraduates in good order." "What a task! He ought to have three heads.

If spiritual formation is the purpose of the church, then personal transformation should intentionally be the purpose of the small group ministry. Bible study is great. Fellowship is wonderful. Evangelism is essential. But changing and growing to be more like Christ should be the purpose of the small group ministry.

James MacDonald

She chose to look at her surroundings where they "think missionary" mind-set.

My focus was on trying to figure out what God wanted be to do next. Their (his parents') focus was on what I was doing for God at the moment.

Worship may produce an outward change, but our inner condition will eventually be revealed

Richard J. Foster

Reagan understood an important distinction that (Lyndon) Johnson never grasped: being in control and being successful aren't always the same thing.

Jonathan Darman

The altar must be built in one place so that the fire may come down in another place.

Charles Williams

I wanted to explain so much to him at that moment, but you can't give a six-year-old the perspective of a 40-year-old, not really, so I gave him the short course.

I'm perfectly willing to be perfectly human.

What am I doing? Tearing myself. My usual occupation at most times.

Charles Dickens

I thought parenting was going to reveal my strengths, never realizing that God had ordained it to reveal my weaknesses.

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

As soon as (Teddy Roosevelt) received an assignment for a paper or project, he would set to work, never leaving anything to the last minute. Prepared so far ahead "freed his mind" from worry and facilitated fresh, lucid thought.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

All relationships are teleological, are going somewhere.

I have traveled millions of miles, speaking to Christians. I have counseled privately with hundreds of them about their beliefs and lifestyles. What I have found has to be one of the most tragic ironies of all time: A tiny group of believers who have the Gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story.

When I push the button on my laptop, it should start up. If it doesn’t, it can’t blame its nonexistent emotions. It should respond immediately and appropriately because that’s what it has been created to do.In evaluating my parenting, I realized much of my anger with my children arose from my having the wrong perspective about them. I was viewing them as if they were machines.

Of Teddy Roosevelt and his siblings, the author writes they were, "armed with an innate curiosity and discipline fostered by his remarkable father.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

There is an inverse relationship between control and trust. Trust is more of a two-way exchange than most people, especially those in power, realize. Leaders in government, news media, universities, and corporations think they can own trust, when, of course, trust is given to them. Trust is earned with difficulty and lost with ease. When those institutions treat constituents like masses of fools, children, miscreants,or prisoners, when they simply don't listen,it's unlikely they will engender warm feelings of mutual respect. Trust is an act of opening up. It's a mutual relationship of transparency and sharing. The more ways you find to reveal yourself and listen to others, the more you will build trust, which is your brand.

Their lifelong love of learning, their remarkable wide-ranging intellectual curiosity, was fostered primarily by their father. He read aloud to them at night, eliciting their responses to works of history and literature. He organized amateur plays for them, encourage pursuit of special interests, prompted them to write essays on their readings, and urge them to recite poetry.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Freedom from anxiety is characterized by three inner attitudes. If what we have we received as a gift, and if what we have is to be cared for by God, and if what we have is available to others, then we will possess freedom from anxiety.

Richard J. Foster

For a long time, I thought I was good at relationships because I was charming.

A good officer learned to take care of the feet of his men first, and from there their stomachs and hearts. By that means, he could motivate their souls.

Newt Gingrich and William R Forstchen

Lyndon Johnson knew how to make the most of such enthusiasm and how to play on it and intensify it. He wanted his audience to become involved. He wanted their hands up in the air. And having been a schoolteacher he knew how to get their hands up. He began, in his speeches, to ask questions.

It’s easy to give God a list of excuses for not feeling worthy or as capable as someone else, in our service to him. The problem is that God doesn’t call those who are unprepared or incapable. He calls those who have the talent and ability to serve. He has it all planned out for us. Our challenge is to accept his calling and move out in faith believing in his promises of help and support.

True love is generative. It is the only kind that makes more of itself as it goes along.

Timothy J. Keller

We are to be generous not just in the results of our work, but also IN our work.

If a church is good at making disciples it will be good at making leaders because in the end, a good spiritual formation plan will lead to an accelerated spiritual multiplication.

The only way your child will grow out of their dependency into self-sufficient adults is for you to essentially abandon your own independence for 20 years or so.

Timothy J. Keller

When religion becomes so involved in a future good "over yonder" that it forgets the present evils over here it is as dry as dust religion and needs to be condemned.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The God of the universe--the creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor--loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. And what is our typical response? We go to church, sing songs, and try not to cuss.

It is a wicked sophistry to justify the worldliness of the Church by the cross of Christ.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Tragedy cannot take place around a type. Suffering is the most individualizing thing on earth.

On Christ's attitude toward His disciples: "If I gave away My big all to get to you, can you give away your little all to follow Me?

Timothy J. Keller

If you eat, breathe and grow, two things are happening—which have little to do with either air or burgers. You are receiving an education and your “spirit” is being formed. To be alive is to be formed.

wonderful people are made, not born – that the people I admired had achieved an unfakeable inner virtue, built slowly from specific moral and spiritual accomplishments.

It is easier to lose a thosuand disciples than to win over one.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A question is far more subversive, biblically, than a statement.

Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.

Richard J. Foster

The better you get, the better you better get.

I am learning that man can live profoundly without masses of things.

Spiritual disciplines answer the shallow world.

Richard J. Foster

Managing relationships (with start ups) is more like teaching.

The knowledge worker cannot be supervised closely or in detail. He must direct himself toward performance and contribution

the real tests of life can come a child’s way at any moment,

although the stress response was involuntary, the relaxation response required practice.[6]

The only way to reduce ugliness in the world is to reduce it in yourself,

Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend, so I figure I better get moving.

Not every story started off big enough to notice.

When an actor reaches down into his emotional well and pulls up a deeply personal response, the audience can sense something special is going on. They may not know exactly what they're seeing, but they recognize it as authentic.

Never base motivation or fear, entirely.

The line between spontaneity and stupidity can be very thin.

There is nothing Christ dislikes more than for His people to make a showpiece of Him and not to use Him.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Unlike most politicians who follow their audience, (Robert) Kennedy tried to lead his.

Thurston Clarke

The struggle against the weakness in yourself is never a solitary struggle. No person can achieve self-mastery or his or her own.

Faith is as precious to die by as it is to live by.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Do your best, and your best will be growing better.

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