Discipleship Quotes
Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.
Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning.
The counselee should be aware that you are not God. Better yet, she should be aware that you are aware that you are not God.
In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.
To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.
I believe it to be one of the most important discipleship resources we have produced at Ligonier.
Our Lord never lays down the conditions of discipleship as the conditions of salvation.
True discipleship is for volunteers only. Only volunteers will trust the Guide sufficiently to follow Him in the dangerous ascent which only He can lead.
I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.
Your love for Jesus Christ and your discipleship in His cause must be the consuming preoccupation and passion of your mortality.
St John, on Christ's bosom, pray for me in the days of my discipleship, in the house of my faith, in the hour of my death.
Discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ.
The scriptures do not present us with a series of Christian types to be imitated according to choice
Our nearness to the king in love is nearness to those who love not the king.
Most principles are limp until they are tested.
The imitation of Christ is the joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.
With passion you want to possess. The conversion of passion into compassion is the whole problem of marriage.
Mythology is to relate found truth to the living of a life.
The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.
Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: "Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis for the better.
We are commissioned to make disciples, to bring them into the same direct relationship with Christ as those who left their nets and their fishing boats to become “fishers of men.
To be a disciple of Jesus means to learn from Him, to follow Him. The cost may be high.
Many Christians want the benefits of their belief, but they hesitate at the cost of discipleship.
Jesus Christ spoke frankly to His disciples concerning the future . . .In unmistakable language He told them that discipleship means a life of self-denial, and the bearing of a cross.
Christ never told his disciples that they would get an Academy Award for their performances, but He did tell them to expect to have troubles.
It is no accident that the words discipline and disciple resemble each other in the English language. The most common word in the Gospels for a Christian is disciple.
Our minds must be set always to seek the will of the Lord. Following the progressive discipline revealed through the Bible will result in a walk of obedience to God.
To be a disciple is to be committed to Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord and committed to following Him every day. To be a disciple is also to be disciplined in our bodies, minds, and souls.
We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be given) "certain things for which youth craves – the chance for self-sacrifice for an ideal.
The lightheaded and the fashionable are always willing to shed tears for distant underdogs.
She noticed, as an exceptional woman would, that her stepson was exceptional.
It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with tolerable zeal against the grain.
Since we never get everything we want or need from our families, we look for sufficiency in surrogates.
Lincoln began to emerge from his funk by helping a coworker who looked up to him out of a funk of his own.
I do not politicize Christianity nor my discipleship as Jesus did not politicize either His divinity nor his humanity.
So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold those opinions about.
When religion becomes so involved in a future good "over yonder" that it forgets the present evils over here it is as dry as dust religion and needs to be condemned.
She had been carried away by the need to defend herself.
They ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas instead of trying to extract ideas from the circumstances.
I have a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows. Now mind!
