Discipleship Quotes
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.
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.
Spontaneities offer one kind of pleasure and taste of sanctity, repetitions another equally pleasurable and holy.
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?
He who grows not in the knowledge of Jesus, refuses to be blessed.
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.
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.
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.
There is nothing more common than for people who want to talk about God to lose interest in the people they are talking to.
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.
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
Private worship excites us for public worship.
Worship shadows eternity and provides supernatural encouragement.
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.
Push the needle into some middle range of guarded optimism.
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.
It doesn't get any easier. You have to stay close to the people you trust so they can put you back together again.
Be wise and attend to obeying. Let Christ manage the providing.
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
Far from a source of suffering, their adopted faith had been a source of power.
You can leave the Word of God to wound and kill it need not be yourselves cutting in phrase in manner.
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.
The minister is the parish clock. Many people take their time from him.
It is not a brave thing to trust God. To true believers, it is a sweet necessity.
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.
That which man doth, unaided by divine strength, God can never own. The mere fruits of the earth He casteth away
One Cardinal entered his cathedral for the first time at his funeral.
Let our liberty be practically exhibited by serving the Lord with gratitude and delight.
Mentors have a way of seeing more of our faults that we would like. It's the only way we grow.
To give to others is but sowing seed for ourselves.
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.
Don't make peace with the sin in your life.