Discipleship Quotes

We can’t really explain what the goal of mentoring is, until we understand what the church is for.

Many pastors would rather preach God's Word and keep their distance than invest in a personal one-on-one counseling ministry. Most pastors counsel because they have to, not because they want to.

If teachers are uncomfortable at their own school, they will pass on their uncertainties or negative attitude to students.

if we are wayfarers who want to return home, then we must see the world as a means of transportation (terestibus vel marinis vehiculis) and always remember to distinguish the means and ends.

Every good man resists others in those points in which he resists himself.

Counseling is ultimately not about the counselee or the counselor, but about the Divine Counselor.

A colleague like Barnabas could comfort him (Paul) in illness and keep him from overstrain when fit.

How do you teach a classroom of Sybils who are breaking apart and reforming right in front of you?

We are less interested in the number of disciples and more interested in the quality of discipleship.

Human sin is stubborn, but not as stubborn as the grace of God and not half as persistent, not half so ready to suffer to win its way

Friends usually bring out better versions of each other. People feel unguarded and fluid with their close friends.

Despite the huge crowd, He speaks to His disciples as though no one else is there.

If I am to have faith when I pray, I must find some promise in the Word of God to rest my faith on

You get a feeling when you look back on life that all God really wants from us is to live inside a body He made, and enjoy the story, and to bond with Him through the experience.

In his late forties, an age when men settle to comforts and seek a firm base, Paul began his roughest travels.

Older people make this mistake all the time with younger people, treating them as a finished product when in fact they are in process.

Treat this crisis as practice for the next crisis.

After death something new begins, over which all powers of the world of death have no more might.

What God did for Jesus in standing up for Him, standing behind Him in life and in death, and in standing in communion and solidarity with Him, the Father also does for us, here and now, in our lives.

Conversions were easy, but making full-time disciples was hard.

Conversion, constant conversion, is the message of the Gospel.

No one ever made more trouble than gentle Jesus meek and mild.

The Jesus People experience proved to be a staging area for tens of thousands of young Americans who were making up their mind about marriage, schooling, and careers

Edwards’s God was glorious, full of beauty, and seemingly uninterested in making people feel insecure. Edwards was a mystic, a man who didn’t simply write or preach about God, he experienced him.

To be a man, a boy must see a man.

The sweet spot is where duty and delight converge.

Any believer who has not encountered the Cross is not yet a follower of Christ

You can't grasp the wonderful and keep your feet on the ground.

[Mary] says her memories Will help those of usNewly come to our Lord’s mercy, To live in His light.

Your job is to abide in my pastureEating sweet grass and drinking pure water, And sharing both with others—That is a lamb’s business.

Maybe you have been looking for peace for no one but yourself.

Redemption came as a wave of relief, but then it followed with a burden.

Men need men to keep their edges hot and clean, whereas women keep us warm and soft.

You know after any truly initiating experience that you are part of a much bigger whole. Life is not about you henceforward, but you are about life.

You cannot contain evil by shaming it, or making people feel guilty, but only by revealing it toward it is, and then seeing the good as better.

If you do not acquire good training in detachment, you may attach to all the wrong things.

Every missed rite of passage leads to a new rigidification of the personality.

There was (and is) nothing palatable about Jesus Christ of Nazareth to those who love the world and have made their home in it.

Managing games comes second. Managing people comes first.

It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying.

You think you're a role model, and they (protégés)turn around and tell you you're a negative role model.

There is never a time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment, the time is always now.

We think in terms of apostolic journeys. God dares to put His greatest ambassadors in chains.

What Paul understands by holiness or sanctification (is) the learning in the present of the habits which anticipate the ultimate future.

we all want to be called servants until someone treats us like one.

The author sees Joseph of Genesis as a type of Christ's Pentecostal power. He who was thought dead has been raised in power, and the power is evident in the chariot he sends for his own.

I was determined to get them away from the idea that their education is a private experience.

I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to share a lifelong passion for the subject.

If you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because he himself is the way.

Yanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people's stories.