Discipleship Quotes - Page 8

Christianity tells a big story. It allows us to see our own story in a new way.

Alister E. McGrath

Increasingly we confused the pursuit of happiness with the pursuit of pleasure.

It was too late for he and his father to have an adventure, and NOTHING seemed to have any color anymore.

If you know EVERYONE, you don't know ANYONE.

Christ distributes courage through community. He dissipates doubt through fellowship. Max Lucado

What we are taught to seek or shun in prayer, we should equally pursue or avoid in action. Very earnestly, therefore, should we avoid temptation, seeking to walk so guardedly in the path of obedience, that we may never tempt the devil to tempt us.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Dost thou want another eye beside that of Him who sees every secret thing?

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

He believed interim reforms were necessary in order to fix the worker for his destiny.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Try to resist copying a blueprint from another person's ministry.

Even though Paul knew farewells were inevitable, he still formed deep relationships.

Salvation is a gift. Godliness is the pursuit.

Almightiness and wisdom combined will make no failures.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The affair made men feel larger than life.

Barbara W. Tuchman

God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out air-quality. He knew it already. It was I who did. In this trial He makes us occupy the dock, the witness box, and the day all at once. He always knew that my temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize that fact was to knock it down.

Obedience appears to me more and more the whole business of life, the only road to love and peace.

Fidelity in marriage requires self-will and self-denial.

Shame and suffering, as St. Bernard says, are the two ladder-uprights which are set up to heaven, and between those two uprights are the rungs of all virtues fixed, by which one climbs to the joy of heaven… In these two things, in which is all penance, rejoice and be glad, for in return for these, twofold blisses are prepared: in return for shame honour; in return for suffering, delight and rest without end.

A Christian's duty, Lewis believed, is not simply to tolerate "X" but to make life with "X" an occasion to work on one's own character flaws.

It's not easy being a missionary, even with the key to the cosmos in your hand.

The teacher-student relationship evaporated, replaced by a rich and lively exchange of equals.

He would henceforth worship and defend the very reason for Joy, the Almighty Maker of Joy.

Almost anything at all can be transmuted into a labyrinth.

Lewis spoke for almost every member when he said, "There is no sound I like better than adult male laughter.

The speaker says one of the blessings of the family of God is that the enthusiasm of children influences their elders while experience seasons the younger members.

A writer at the time said, "Lincoln means to sink the man in the public officer.

Pandering candidates often promise that they can make the pain go away.

In Martin Luther's life and behavior is very courteous and friendly, and there is nothing of the stern stoic or grumpy fellow about him. He can adjust to all occasions. In social gathering he is gay, witty, ever full of joy, always has a bright and happy face, no matter how seriously his adversaries threatening him. One can see that God's strength is within him. – Petrus Mosellanus

Andrew Pettegree

Holy desire can be learned. All prayer is part work and part rest.

Jen Pollock Michel

Kingdom is a signpost to the holy.

Jen Pollock Michel

Our small group is committed to getting the biblical text under our skin.

Jen Pollock Michel

After her initial conversion as a teenager, the author writes, "I was sent back into a world that no longer looked familiar to me. I had to relearn how to do everything.

Jen Pollock Michel

Just do the right thing for the next 15 minutes." And Dugger's guideline for dealing with infidelity and transition one step at a time.

I didn't know how faith felt when it grew incrementally.

Jen Pollock Michel

God is the I AM that I AM not the I AM that we wish.

Jen Pollock Michel

Struggle is a prerequisite to surrender.

Jen Pollock Michel

According to Aquinas, effort may not be the best measure of our virtue.

Jen Pollock Michel

Like many men who experience fatherhood relatively late in life, Martin Luther was a devoted parent. Luther wrote his children letters of touching intensity, patiently converting the joys of the Christian life into a language of storytelling fit for the very young. A home with children brought out the best in Luther in a way that theological disputation patently did not.

Andrew Pettegree

I experienced the Church to be this refuge within and beyond myself.

He was the perfect soldier: he went where you sent him, and stayed where you put him, and had no idea of his own to keep him from doing exactly what you told him.

Dashiell Hammett

I had rather have God for my banker than all the Rothschilds.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The author cites researcher David Howard's idea of post-traumatic growth. Howard contends that some individuals faced with a traumatic event actually develop new strength.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Humility is the earmark of God's genuine servant.

We need heroes who'll inspire us so that maybe next time we'll dig a little deeper and find our best self.

Madam Secretary

So highly revered was commingle, that the Jews called him "the beauty of the Law".

Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: "Learn from socialism, but don't join it.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Someone suddenly had direct, unabashed access to my heart.

Everything in Scripture is either preparation for the Gospel, presentation of the Gospel, or participation in the Gospel.

We advise disciples not to follow anyone. Let them follow themselves. Each one should follow his resplendent and luminous inner Being.

Samael Aun Weor

The Christian life does not just evolve. It also requires specific decisions and public commitments to deepen our faith and obedience.

Men and women of God through the centuries have lived out this abiding truth. There are no heroes of the faith who did not live out this extravagant lavishing of their time on Jesus. When we examine their private lives, we see that they needed to abide for strength and for wisdom. They were addicted to extravagant time in the presence of Jesus because it gave them life and joy and was the only thing that fulfilled them.

Missionaries Who Love The Arab World

Abiding time is extravagant daily time with Jesus. This extravagant time is the center of abiding. Not legalism, not dry discipline, not manufactured spirituality, but joyous soaking in the presence of Jesus, lavish spending of time with Him who is most precious, Him from whom all life flows. In a world that is over-connected yet lonely, frantically busy yet accomplishing little of eternal value, super-informed but egregiously ignorant on what really matters, abiding gives Jesus the best of our time, in which He leads us to the best of times.

Missionaries Who Love The Arab World

Good disciplemaking requires both intentionality and relationality. It means being strategic and being social. Most of us are bent one way or the other. We’re naturally relational, but lacking in intentionality. Or we find it easy to be intentional, but not relational. We typically tip (or sometimes lean) one way or the other as we begin the disciplemaking process. But tipping and leaning won’t cover the full picture of what life-on-life disciplemaking requires. It’s not just friend-to-friend, and it’s not just teacher-to-student. It’s both. There is the sharing of ordinary life (relationship) and seeking to initiate and make the most of teachable moments (intentionality). There are the long walks through Galilee and the sermons on the mount. Disciplemaking is both organic and engineered, relational and intentional, with shared context and shared content, quality and quantity time.

We need to be making disciples telling people about Jesus & move them beyond conversation into a heart relationship with Him in the fullness

We email, Facebook, tweet and text with people who are going to spend eternity in either heaven or hell. Our lives are too short to waste on mere temporal conversations when massive eternal realities hang in the balance. Just as you and I have no guarantee that we will live through the day, the people around us are not guaranteed tomorrow either. So let's be intentional about sewing the threads of the gospel into the fabric of our conversations every day, knowing that it will not always be easy, yet believing that eternity will always be worth it.

It is by suffering that Christ brings it in to the kingdoms of this world

L. Michael Morales

Make us, Lord, in Chesterton's distinction, travelers instead of tourists. Where the tourist defines his day by the expectation of seeing certain things, give us the traveler's openness to seeing what You will reveal.

The follower aspires with all his strength to be what he admires. And then, remarkably enough, even though he lives amongst a 'Christian people,' he incurs the same peril as he did when it was dangerous to openly confess Christ. And because of the follower's life, it will become evident who the admirers are, for the admirers will become agitated with him. Even these words will disturb many - but then they must likewise belong to the admirers.

Søren Kierkegaard

Today, we have many ways of defining success in life. Some define it as being a sports hero, others as being wealthy, others as being popular and well liked, and still others as being happy. How does God define success? He defines it as being spiritually mature!

The author offers Paul Tripp's analogy that most of the strategies for growth in the Christian life amounts to stapling live roses on a dead bush.

God wants us to have soft hearts and hard feet. The trouble with so many of us is that we have hard hearts and soft feet.

Jackie Pullinger

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