Discipleship Quotes

The affair made men feel larger than life.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

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.