Discipleship Quotes

although the stress response was involuntary, the relaxation response required practice.[6]

The only way to reduce ugliness in the world is to reduce it in yourself,

Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend, so I figure I better get moving.

Not every story started off big enough to notice.

Never base motivation or fear, entirely.

The line between spontaneity and stupidity can be very thin.

There is nothing Christ dislikes more than for His people to make a showpiece of Him and not to use Him.

Unlike most politicians who follow their audience, (Robert) Kennedy tried to lead his.

The struggle against the weakness in yourself is never a solitary struggle. No person can achieve self-mastery or his or her own.

Faith is as precious to die by as it is to live by.

Do your best, and your best will be growing better.

The world commands our desire for purity but bids that we not be too precise about it.

God never encourages self-reliance.

Kids don't always stop to judge or analyze a new experience unless the adults around them react strongly. Otherwise, they just take in the experience and move on to the next one.

It took him (Washington) more than a year to gain control over his own aggressive instincts.

True love is generative. It is the only kind that makes more of itself as it goes along.

We are to be generous not just in the results of our work, but also IN our work.

If a church is good at making disciples it will be good at making leaders because in the end, a good spiritual formation plan will lead to an accelerated spiritual multiplication.

The only way your child will grow out of their dependency into self-sufficient adults is for you to essentially abandon your own independence for 20 years or so.

It is a wicked sophistry to justify the worldliness of the Church by the cross of Christ.

Tragedy cannot take place around a type. Suffering is the most individualizing thing on earth.

On Christ's attitude toward His disciples: "If I gave away My big all to get to you, can you give away your little all to follow Me?

wonderful people are made, not born – that the people I admired had achieved an unfakeable inner virtue, built slowly from specific moral and spiritual accomplishments.

It is easier to lose a thosuand disciples than to win over one.

A question is far more subversive, biblically, than a statement.

I am learning that man can live profoundly without masses of things.

Spiritual disciplines answer the shallow world.

Managing relationships (with start ups) is more like teaching.

The knowledge worker cannot be supervised closely or in detail. He must direct himself toward performance and contribution

She chose to look at her surroundings where they "think missionary" mind-set.

My focus was on trying to figure out what God wanted be to do next. Their (his parents') focus was on what I was doing for God at the moment.

Worship may produce an outward change, but our inner condition will eventually be revealed

Reagan understood an important distinction that (Lyndon) Johnson never grasped: being in control and being successful aren't always the same thing.

The altar must be built in one place so that the fire may come down in another place.

I wanted to explain so much to him at that moment, but you can't give a six-year-old the perspective of a 40-year-old, not really, so I gave him the short course.

I'm perfectly willing to be perfectly human.

I thought parenting was going to reveal my strengths, never realizing that God had ordained it to reveal my weaknesses.

All relationships are teleological, are going somewhere.

For a long time, I thought I was good at relationships because I was charming.

A good officer learned to take care of the feet of his men first, and from there their stomachs and hearts. By that means, he could motivate their souls.

The web of trust is built at eye level, peer to peer.

The author relates by way of illustration that the human heart contains both a throne and a cross. If we occupy the one, Jesus occupies the other.

At the end of life, each of us must answer the question, Whose story captured my soul?

In healthy churches, the pastors life, not just his words, sets the tone for the church.

We must evaluate every person, place, product, perspective, position, or pleasure we have looked to in place of the promises of God, and turn away from those things accordingly.

Any counseling that does not pursue spiritual formation through an intimate relationship with Jesus by faith as one of its chief goals is not worthy to be called BIBLICAL counseling.

So often, it's others around us who can see where God wants to grow us even before we see it ourselves.

Small groups are the place to push past Bible knowledge and on to life application so that we can see people's lives transform more and more into the image of Christ.

If our counseling is truly Christ-centered, then the topic of forgiveness will inevitably come up in the journey toward growth and change.