Discipleship Quotes

G-rated language is making me a less angry person. Behavior shapes emotion.

It is an EVIL thing to be an expert in the weaknesses of our brothers and sisters. We need to be experts in the strengths of our brothers and sisters.

A brother's sympathy is more precious than an angel's embassy.

He had a courtly way of exclaiming over whatever was exclaimable in people – especially kids.

Find the good, and praise it.

Shanahan (the head coach) doesn't allow failure to take root.

Do what you are doing. Monastic motto

The whitest robes, unless their purity be preserved by divine grace, will be defiled by the blackest spots.

Trying to know God and serve Him before we come to love Him is exhausting.

The nobility of England would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. But you'll labor like scholars over a bulldog's pedigree.

If thou rememberest that thou art going to heaven, thou wilt not sleep on the road. If thou thinkest that hell is behind thee, and the devil pursuing thee, thou wilt not loiter.

There is a rich literature on how to break out of quandary thinking. It suggests that sometimes it helps to turn from the abstract to the concrete.

Prayer is listening.

Help our response, Lord, not to be, "WHAT are You doing?!" Instead, give us the perspective to ask, "Lord, what would You teach?

When it comes to doing something about what is wrong in the world, Jesus is best known for his fondness for the minute, the invisible, the quiet, the slow – yeast, salt, seeds, light. And manure.

The Atreides are known to start late getting there growth.

Better to wait actively than passively.

It takes courage to seek God, and courage to wait for His reply.

All of life comes in seed form – not as monuments.

Like the hub of a wheel, the church’s corporate life is an extension of the good news that God was in Christ reconciling the whole world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them.

Jesus did not command us to "develop" leaders. He commanded us to make "disciples". The world "develops" leaders, the Church "disciples" them. The two are not the same.

Romance depends upon imperfect knowledge.

Only he who cries out for the persecuted Jews can sing Gregorian chants. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

As we gaze on Christ, the mind is informed, and the heart is inflamed, and the body begins to line up.

J.R.R. Tolkien told a questioning correspondent, life's purpose is to know, praise, and thank God.

I’m feeling very thin and vulnerable, in a good way.

If I can hold God's attention, I can hold the world's..

The more loftily we see Christ enthroned, and the more lowly we are when bowing before the foot of the throne, the more truly shall we be prepared to act our part towards Him.

It was well to be Martha and serve, but better to be Lazarus and commune.

I've never found time to indulge more than a single ambition.

The intensity of the love of the upright is not so much to be judged by what it appears as by what the upright long for. It is our daily lament that we cannot love enough.

When grace has won the day, the worldling seeks the world to come.

This wasn't a legalistic play. He simply wanted more and more of God.

Never was living beauty so enchanting as a dying Saviour.

We ascribe to God. We don't add to Him.

Christian spirituality combines a sense of the awe and majesty of God with a sense of His intimate presence.

In the sympathy of Christ we find a sustaining power.

The Jesus Movement had survived the fad phase and was settling down for the long haul.

You must teach me the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters.

We will have to work hard to rest.

Faith enables you to hold on loosely without letting go.

I did my best parenting by prayer. I began to speak less to the kids and more to God. It was actually quite relaxing.

Jesus had no regard for the lifeboat politics you and I live within every day.

The game isn't big enough unless it scares you a little. Cmdr. William Riker

My cell phone is my only individual zone, just for me.

Show me a person in my shoes who is looking for a robot, and I'll show you someone who is looking for a person and can't find one.

Who teaches young people to be so exquisitely sensitive to perceived slights, so ready to read affronts into routine events in everyday life? Their teachers no doubt.

The end is where we start from. T.S. Eliot

You can't counter a heroic impulse with a mundane and bourgeois response. You can counter it only with a more compelling heroic vision.

I can't say I ever remember getting less than a whole child in my 29 years here.They come in whole and I teach 'em that way.