Discipleship Quotes - Page 7

We do not become less needy, less dependent when we pray; we become more needy, more dependent, which is to say, more human.

Eugene H. Peterson

It is in my internal and external struggles, when it feels like someone is river-dancing on my last nerve, that the fruit of the Spirit is developed.

It is the doom of the Christian church to be always distracted with controversy. John Quincy Adams

It wasn't work. I played myself.

Private worship excites us for public worship.

Worship shadows eternity and provides supernatural encouragement.

Sometimes a citizenry should not simply "be good". You have to leave space for dissent, real dissent.

Charity fits the economy of scarcity, because it supports the blasphemous myth that the rich are rich because they deserve to be, and their riches are theirs to deal with as they please. With such charity, we are not worthy to tell the story of manna in the wilderness, to pretend to eat together at the Lord’s Supper, or claim the Year of Jubilee as our own.

One of the privileges of childhood is that some of the world is mediated by adults.

Realtechnik is skeptical about linear progress. It encourages humility, a state of mind in which we are most open to facing problems and reconsidering decisions. It helps us acknowledge costs and recognize the things we hold inviolate.

The author says crises tend to reveal the connectivity of systems that had previously been study only in isolation.

the heart of a prophet is not his own to bestow.

Geraldine Brooks

My prophetic task would be twofold: to stand up to him, and to stand by him. To awaken his conscience, and to salve the pain this would cause him.

He did wrong. He has acknowledged it before the people. He repents it. How many kings have the humility to do that?

Geraldine Brooks

You don't need a prophet to tell you to eat.

Geraldine Brooks

It's remarkable how very many things there are that a king may not do.

Geraldine Brooks

The church is the primary arena in which we learn that glory does not consist in what we do for God but in what God does for us.

Eugene H. Peterson

Relationships we complain about nevertheless keep us connected to life.

God never loses sight of the treasure which He has placed in our earthen vessels.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Action without prayer thins out into something very exterior. A prayerless life can result in effective action and accomplish magnificent things, but if there is no developed interiority, the action never enters into the depth and intimacy of relationships.

Eugene H. Peterson

At the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of Heaven fills those who are quitting the light of Earth.

When people turn other people into selfobjects, they are trying to turn a person into a kind of spare part.

Prayer is a way of language practiced in the presence of God in which we become more than ourselves while remaining ourselves.

Eugene H. Peterson

Spontaneities offer one kind of pleasure and taste of sanctity, repetitions another equally pleasurable and holy.

Eugene H. Peterson

Having a big family is costly and invasive. As we realize how big our family is in Christ, how our family obligations transcend our artificial boundaries, there ought to be a weightiness to our response to our brothers and sisters in need.

Challenge quandary thinking, either/or thinking come by moving from the abstract to the concrete. What can we do with the choice actually in front of us?

People HAVE used me. But it don't matter I don't let it change me. – Mohammed Ali

The obedience which God's children yield to Him must be loving obedience. Do not go about the service of God as slaves to their taskmaster's toil, but run in the way of His commands because it is your Father's way.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Will therapy make you feel any better? Not if it's working.

Focusing on effective leadership without focusing on a willingness to follow is like studying clapping by studying only the left hand.

God's Fatherly prerogative, " is a kingly attribute so sweetly veiled in love, that the King's crown is forgotten in the King's face, and His sceptre becomes, not a rod of iron, but a silver sceptre of mercy—the sceptre indeed seems to be forgotten in the tender hand of Him who wields it.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Children are angels in exile, so close to God. They haven't had time to separate from Him.Ali

The purpose of prayer is not for the disciple to give information to God. The purpose of prayer is intimacy with God.

Making disciples of Jesus is the overflow of the delight in being disciples of Jesus.

The advantage which disciplined soldiers have over undisciplined hordes follows cheaply from the confidence which each man feels in his comrades. Charles Darwin

A servile spirit you have nothing to do with: you are not a slave, but a child; and now, inasmuch as you are a beloved child, you are bound to obey your Father's faintest wish, the least intimation of His will.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

As you call people to submit to the Person of Christ, you can trust the Spirit of Christ to lead them to salvation.

I serve," should be the motto of all the princes of the royal family of heaven.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Expositing. John 14, the speaker explains that the Holy Spirit making His home with us involves Him exposing other areas of our lives for repentance, regeneration, and renewal.

Carnal love is the love of table, not of the host.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It is one thing to know what is to come. It is another thing to confront it.

Geraldine Brooks

She would know a good thing to do without thinking about it.

I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.

Winnie the Pooh finds comfort in counting his pots of honey, and Rabbit finds comfort in knowing where his relations are – even if he doesn't need them at the moment.

I love the quaint saying of a dying man, who exclaimed, "I have no fear of going home; I have sent all before me; God's finger is on the latch of my door, and I am ready for Him to enter.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

He gave himself fully to the penitent life, fasting, praying, confessing his wickedness and execrating himself in public. He became a better man in the small matters of his days, an even better, wiser king in the great matters of state.

Geraldine Brooks

A faithful dependent, I overlook his folly.

Charles Dickens

Christ loved the sons of men before there were sons of men, and me before there was me. If he was going to get tired of me, he would have done so before now.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A philosophy that cannot be lived is no philosophy at all.

God trains His soldiers, not in tents of ease and luxury, but by turning them out and using them to forced marches and hard service. He makes them ford through streams, and swim through rivers, and climb mountains, and walk many a long mile with heavy knapsacks of sorrow on their backs.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

She had responded to the loss of her husband, to poverty, to disease, and to family cruelty with boldness and ingenuity, by opening herself to others, especially to her children and her Church, pouring into these precious vessels her knowledge, hope, and devotion.

This is one of the difficulties and pleasures of studying the Inklings; Christians all, they offer, along with the expected 20th-century psychological explanations for behavior, unexpected spiritual ones.

C.S. Lewis had come to demand of his nightly prayers a "realization," "a certain vividness of the imagination and the affectations" – a sure recipe for sleeplessness and misery.

The Inklings were comrades who have been touched by war, who view life through the lens of war, yet who look for hope and found it, in fellowship, where so many other modern writers and intellectuals saw only broken narratives, disfigurement, and despair.

Capital is necessary to the cultivation of esthetic value.

A Christian atmosphere is no protection against preening egos.

Topanga: Do I need to know the middle of the story?Corey: Do you want to be proud of her?Topanga: Yes.Corey: Then, no.

Girl Meets World

If somebody in your life doesn't think you are a fanatic, you are probably backslidden.

There is a wide distinction between confessing sin as a culprit, and confessing sin as a child. The Father's bosom is the place for penitent confessions.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I had rather mistrust my own capacity than God's justice.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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