Discipleship Quotes

The author describes a previous Bible study with a lot of turnover as "not so much together as in each other's midst.

He (the Bible study leader) is blessed with a light touch and a firm hand.

It is possible to feel angered by the compromises all around us, while remaining apathetic to the compromises inside us.

A cross centered life is made up of Christ centered days.

We reign over the united kingdom of time and eternity

Innovators "view failure not as a fatal character flaw but as a learning experience.

pessimists see people as liabilities to manage, as burdens or threats that we must minimize.

He was so much the humblest one that Wendy was especially gentle with him.

In the old days, it had been talent and style and brilliance and now it was more and more productivity.

Time served does not guarantee maturity.

I want a faith that's so alive, it can be seen. I want a hope that cannot hide, even when I'm weak.

It is ill to offer God one duty stained with the blood of another.

He was perceived to be intellectually promiscuous, a little too eager to please all groups.

Mohr was one of the most talented people on the staff of Time, in print as well as in person—the two are often different.

A missionary deals with all the important people of the community, but he is never really one of them.

He could tune her, bringing out her better instincts and filtering out her lesser ones.

The faster the motion, the less time to think. Fuselage journalism, Hugh Sidey of Time later called it.

He assumed that the shape of renewal is death and resurrection.

Online life is so delicious because it is socializing with almost no friction.

George III was incapable of passing on a sense of mission to his son might a given some purpose to the crown prince's existence

Morning dawns when the grace overcomes nature.

the sculpting of the brain’s circuitry during this period of brain growth depends to a great degree on what a child experiences day-to-day.

the real tests of life can come a child’s way at any moment,

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.

The man who goes to the top is the man who has something to say and says it when circumstances warrant. Men who keep silent underdressed are moral cowards.

If virtue does not equal powers, powers will be misused.

It doesn't follow that the riots mean permanent hostility toward him.

Get evangelical Christian made them receptive to the possibility of redemption in the here and now.

An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself – self-discipline, self-control.

The problem with spiritual procrastination is the uncertain time of the deadline.

The big idea here is not, have you sinned, but are you changing?

You know your Bible too well and life too little.

I want every one of our members to grow into maturity more quickly than they seem to, but the Lord has taught me to shepherd people, call them to repentance and let Matthew 18:12­–14 play out.