Discipleship Quotes
It is possible to feel angered by the compromises all around us, while remaining apathetic to the compromises inside us.
He (the Bible study leader) is blessed with a light touch and a firm hand.
The author describes a previous Bible study with a lot of turnover as "not so much together as in each other's midst.
Explaining a professor's emphasis on teaching over research: "She traded clinical questions with determinable answers for perennial questions with inexhaustible answers.
Your children are going through life with their eyes closed, so YOU'RE the one who has to steer.
it’s helpful to focus your child’s attention on the present moment by deciding together on one thing you may particularly look for.
The more God-centered our worship practices, the more mercy-centered our life.
A family that never embraces life's risks never really lives.
The narrator refers to a character as "an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them.
Is God giving you victory this day, if not this whole day, how about this very minute?
Salvation is the creation of new desires, not just new goodies.
The Church, like her head, has a glory, but it is concealed from carnal eyes, for the time of her breaking forth in all her splendour is not yet come.
Why do we calculate our forces, and consult with flesh and blood to our grievous wounding? Jehovah has power enough without borrowing from our puny arm.
He who grows not in the knowledge of Jesus, refuses to be blessed.
Moses challenged parents both to teach the faith diligently and to maximize normal encounters or ongoing discussion.
The pastor owns the opportunity to issue of the flock that it is OK not to be OK.
Worship shadows eternity and provides supernatural encouragement.
Private worship excites us for public worship.
It is the doom of the Christian church to be always distracted with controversy. John Quincy Adams
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.
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.
There is nothing more common than for people who want to talk about God to lose interest in the people they are talking to.
Preaching reveals God in action here and now -- for ME.
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.
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.
We must help men and women see the epic in the ordinary details of life.
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.
Battling busyness is a community response.
Real life applications get tricky when we think about them.
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.
It's remarkable how very many things there are that a king may not do.
I had rather mistrust my own capacity than God's justice.
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.
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?
When people turn other people into selfobjects, they are trying to turn a person into a kind of spare part.
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?
Spontaneities offer one kind of pleasure and taste of sanctity, repetitions another equally pleasurable and holy.
Prayer is a way of language practiced in the presence of God in which we become more than ourselves while remaining ourselves.
Relationships we complain about nevertheless keep us connected to life.