Discipleship Quotes - Page 6

Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them or what we are here for.

My job is not to get between YOU and God. My job is to put your hand IN God's hand.

The person who asks a lot of questions has room for their faith to grow.

The seed of acceptable devotion must come from heaven's storehouse. Only the prayer which comes from God can go to God.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

That's the whole point of being 20. You could be a lot of things. I am much older than you are. I AM things.

Frasier

Why do we calculate our forces, and consult with flesh and blood to our grievous wounding? Jehovah has power enough without borrowing from our puny arm.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Every place is now God's temple, and His people can as truly serve Him in their daily employments as in His house. They are to be always "ministering," offering the spiritual sacrifice of prayer and praise, and presenting themselves a "living sacrifice.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

You can leave the Word of God to wound and kill it need not be yourselves cutting in phrase in manner.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

No heart is as whole as a broken heart, and no faith is as solid as a wounded faith." Elie Wiesel

Better abolish pulpits then to appoint men who have no experiential knowledge of what they teach.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The minister is the parish clock. Many people take their time from him.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Intersections are crash magnets.

It is not a brave thing to trust God. To true believers, it is a sweet necessity.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It is a pity that we cannot persuade all ministers to be men, for it is hard to see how other was they can be truly men of God.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Dream not that worldlings will admire you, or that the more holy and the more Christ-like you are, the more peaceably people will act towards you. They prized not the polished gem, how should they value the jewel in the rough?

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

That which man doth, unaided by divine strength, God can never own. The mere fruits of the earth He casteth away

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

One Cardinal entered his cathedral for the first time at his funeral.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Let our liberty be practically exhibited by serving the Lord with gratitude and delight.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Leviathan laughs at the javelin, but he trembles at prayer. Sword and spear need furbishing, but prayer never rusts, and when we think it most blunt it cuts the best. Prayer is an open door which none can shut. Devils may surround you on all sides, but the way upward is always open.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Mentors have a way of seeing more of our faults that we would like. It's the only way we grow.

The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

Joseph Campbell

Tomorrow's freedom is today's surrender.

Sons and Daughters

Mythology is to relate found truth to the living of a life.

Joseph Campbell

With passion you want to possess. The conversion of passion into compassion is the whole problem of marriage.

Joseph Campbell

To give to others is but sowing seed for ourselves.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Backward we are naturally to all good things, and it is a lesson of grace to learn to go forward in the ways of God.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The author attributes part of the Carter-Reagan divide to their respective attitudes toward the city from which they governed. Carter was deeply suspicious of its coziness. Reagan intended to enjoy his temporary home even while delivering it from its reigning ideology.

The pastor owns the opportunity to issue of the flock that it is OK not to be OK.

Moses challenged parents both to teach the faith diligently and to maximize normal encounters or ongoing discussion.

Peace is the opposite of dreaming. It’s built slowly and surely through brutal compromises and tiny victories that you don’t even see. It’s a messy business, bringing peace into the world.

Bono

Push the needle into some middle range of guarded optimism.

Lincoln began to emerge from his funk by helping a coworker who looked up to him out of a funk of his own.

Richard Brookhiser

The author, at the time a Carter speechwriter in the 1980 campaign, showed visible distress at his boss's performance and was warned by a friend in the traveling press, lest he become the story.

Since we never get everything we want or need from our families, we look for sufficiency in surrogates.

Richard Brookhiser

With a more expansive stretch, there’s a better chance that I’ll be around at the precise, random moment when one of my nephews drops his guard and solicits my advice about something private. Or when one of my nieces will need someone other than her parents to tell her that she’s smart and beautiful.

It doesn't get any easier. You have to stay close to the people you trust so they can put you back together again.

Girl Meets World

Be wise and attend to obeying. Let Christ manage the providing.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

She noticed, as an exceptional woman would, that her stepson was exceptional.

Richard Brookhiser

The lightheaded and the fashionable are always willing to shed tears for distant underdogs.

Richard Brookhiser

John D Rockefeller read his Bible religiously, but kept his ledger in a different drawer.

What's a man worth without love ? $.89 worth of chemicals." Hawkeye Pierce

M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team

Peace between good and evil is an impossibility; the very pretence of it would, in fact, be the triumph of the powers of darkness.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Far from a source of suffering, their adopted faith had been a source of power.

Barbara W. Tuchman

An employee made a mistake that cost the company $10 million, he walked into the office of Tom Watson, the C.E.O., expecting to get fired. “Fire you?” Mr. Watson asked. “I just spent $10 million educating you.

When God does not answer His children according to the letter, He does so according to the spirit. If thou askest for coarse meal, wilt thou be angered because He gives thee the finest flour? If thou seekest bodily health, shouldst thou complain if instead thereof He makes thy sickness turn to the healing of spiritual maladies?

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

He was cross-examining my subconscious .

The usefulness of a man or woman of God relies on the ability to remain distinct.

He who grows not in the knowledge of Jesus, refuses to be blessed.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Unlike mere action, prayer is not subject to immediate evaluation or verification. If we are addicted to "results" we will quickly lose interest in prayer.

Eugene H. Peterson

Real life applications get tricky when we think about them.

Battling busyness is a community response.

To obey the commands of Scripture can finally become a delight when we see that the reasons almost always center around God's love and provision for us in Christ.

We must help men and women see the epic in the ordinary details of life.

Amazing tributaries feeding where the rivers will never flow....

As we grow into maturity in Christ our distinctiveness is accentuated, not blunted. General directions, useful as they are, don't take into account the details that face us as holiness takes root in the particular social and personal place we are planted.

Eugene H. Peterson

He'd made a name for himself out there in the world beyond not just in spite of the distinctly unfashionable persona he presented, but, perhaps, BECAUSE of it.

When you take your place as the authority figure in your home, your child will feel more safe in the real world, not the screen world.

Preaching reveals God in action here and now -- for ME.

Eugene H. Peterson

There is nothing more common than for people who want to talk about God to lose interest in the people they are talking to.

Eugene H. Peterson

We need alert listeners to give dignity to those stretches in our lives when we are not aware of participating in anything we think might be embraced by the kingdom of God.

Eugene H. Peterson

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