Discipleship Quotes - Page 5

you turn into a shrewd tactician, making a series of cautious semicommitments without really surrendering to some larger purpose. You lose the ability to say a hundred noes for the sake of one overwhelming and fulfilling yes.

The world commands our desire for purity but bids that we not be too precise about it.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

God never encourages self-reliance.

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

Kids don't always stop to judge or analyze a new experience unless the adults around them react strongly. Otherwise, they just take in the experience and move on to the next one.

Now, what happens if you eliminate anything from the Bible that offends your sensibility and crosses your will? If you pick and choose what you want to believe and reject the rest, how will you ever have a God who can contradict you? You won't! You'll have ...A God, essentially, of your own making, and not a God with whom you can have a relationship and genuine interaction. Only if your God can say things that outrage you and make you struggle (as in a real friendship or marriage!) will you know that you have gotten hold of a real God and not a figment of your imagination. So an authoritative Bible is not the enemy of a personal relationship with God. It is the precondition for it.

Timothy J. Keller

It took him (Washington) more than a year to gain control over his own aggressive instincts.

Joseph J. Ellis

We reign over the united kingdom of time and eternity

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Innovators "view failure not as a fatal character flaw but as a learning experience.

pessimists see people as liabilities to manage, as burdens or threats that we must minimize.

Arthur C. Brooks

He was so much the humblest one that Wendy was especially gentle with him.

In the old days, it had been talent and style and brilliance and now it was more and more productivity.

David Halberstam

Time served does not guarantee maturity.

I want a faith that's so alive, it can be seen. I want a hope that cannot hide, even when I'm weak.

It is ill to offer God one duty stained with the blood of another.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

He was perceived to be intellectually promiscuous, a little too eager to please all groups.

David Halberstam

Even in a hostile press conference with hostile questions there was drama, and he could benefit from the drama and the hostility. He mastered the greatest art of television, appearing to be spontaneous without in fact being spontaneous.

David Halberstam

Mohr was one of the most talented people on the staff of Time, in print as well as in person—the two are often different.

David Halberstam

A missionary deals with all the important people of the community, but he is never really one of them.

He could tune her, bringing out her better instincts and filtering out her lesser ones.

David Halberstam

The faster the motion, the less time to think. Fuselage journalism, Hugh Sidey of Time later called it.

David Halberstam

He assumed that the shape of renewal is death and resurrection.

Online life is so delicious because it is socializing with almost no friction.

George III was incapable of passing on a sense of mission to his son might a given some purpose to the crown prince's existence

Morning dawns when the grace overcomes nature.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The more the world commits to programs for poverty and education, the greater the gap for those with intellectual disabilities. That’s because money goes where results are quick and quantifiable, which is not likely for people with intellectual disabilities.

LAWRENCE DOWNES

the sculpting of the brain’s circuitry during this period of brain growth depends to a great degree on what a child experiences day-to-day.

The Church, like her head, has a glory, but it is concealed from carnal eyes, for the time of her breaking forth in all her splendour is not yet come.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Salvation is the creation of new desires, not just new goodies.

Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.

Is God giving you victory this day, if not this whole day, how about this very minute?

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

A book isn't worth reading if it's not worth discussing.

The insights given by a great professor are a privilege to receive. To be a teacher, by contrast, calls for more ingenuity and patience; it is the canny art of coaxing insights out of the students themselves.

The narrator refers to a character as "an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them.

The author describes the critic within us as adults as "the selves who live too much in their heads rather than their bodies, who are burdened with too much knowledge about how the world works rather than excited about how it could work or should, who are afraid of being judged and not being loved. Most adults do not live in a world of forgiveness and unconditional love, unless, that is, they have small children.

Jennifer Senior

Make wisdom human to the adolescent mind.

A family that never embraces life's risks never really lives.

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

The more God-centered our worship practices, the more mercy-centered our life.

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

it’s helpful to focus your child’s attention on the present moment by deciding together on one thing you may particularly look for.

The author sees Luke's loyalty to the apostle Paul "depicted architecturally in the great church at Rome known as St. Paul Outside the Walls. There, a statue of Luke holding a writing stylus commemorates not only his work as a Gospel author but his faithfulness to Paul.

Your children are going through life with their eyes closed, so YOU'RE the one who has to steer.

Jennifer Senior

You do not become a ‘dissident’ just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances….It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.

Explaining a professor's emphasis on teaching over research: "She traded clinical questions with determinable answers for perennial questions with inexhaustible answers.

The author describes a previous Bible study with a lot of turnover as "not so much together as in each other's midst.

He (the Bible study leader) is blessed with a light touch and a firm hand.

It is possible to feel angered by the compromises all around us, while remaining apathetic to the compromises inside us.

A cross centered life is made up of Christ centered days.

The imitation of Christ is the joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.

Joseph Campbell

Don't make peace with the sin in your life.

The further you go, the more you're going to need the people you started with.

We entertain God's Truth not as a guest but as master of the house.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

In the earliest days of World War II when London was undergoing the blitz but the United States had not yet been drawn into the hostilities, the US ambassador walked the streets during the hottest of the bombing and ask people at every level of British society what he could do to help. What a picture of our role as ambassadors of Christ's coming Kingdom!

It was the responsibility of a senior fireman to teach as well as to do.

David Halberstam

A student is engaging, attentive, notes details, and shows effort in learning.

Sandra M. Michelle

Spend some personal time with Jesus and he will reveal himself to you on a deeper level.

Sandra M. Michelle

When we get to Heaven, we can try a monarchy, perhaps." John Hay

John Taliaferro

When you cannot use your sword you may take to the weapon of all-prayer. Your powder may be damp, your bow-string may be relaxed, but the weapon of all-prayer need never be out of order.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I should not mistake her calm probing for the absence of anger.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

there was a common understanding that religion generally served the powerful, who manipulated the words of the gods and prophets to justify their greed and lust for power. Yet Christianity comes in numerous guises; mystical to dogmatic; it is used by some as a reason to justify their wars, their oppression and their hatreds. Others use it to oppose those wars and other injustices.

Are you following Christ's ambitions for your life or expecting Him to help you reach yours?

Desire for and delight in God's Word are inseparable.

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