Discipleship Quotes

The choice we face is not, as many imagine, between heaven and hell. Rather, the choice is between heaven and this world. Even a fool would exchange hell for heaven; but only the wise will exchange this world for heaven.

~ Dave Hunt

Your footsteps will have more to say about your spiritual life than knowledge attained.

~ Ricky Maye

The idea of being vulnerable leaves a lot of room for choice. There is always room to be less foldable, more evil.

~ Sherry Turkle

To know there is a better story for your life and to choose something other is like choosing to die.

~ Donald Miller

Of his first enemy encounter, Gen. Grant said that after his initial fear, My heart resumed its place. Grant said he suddenly realized his potential enemy he had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him.

~ C. Brian Kelly

One of the emotional affordances of digital communication is that one can always hide behind deliberated nonchalance.

~ Sherry Turkle

We have been shown how to fight hate without becoming hate ourselves. We have been given a Companion and a Friend and not just a good idea. We have been given joy in the midst of failure, and not just a way of winning or being right.

~ Richard Rohr

I fall down I get up I fall down And the while I keep dancing.

~ Japanese Poem

How my emotions starred as I played! During one of this tug-of-war contest between knowing right and doing wrong, I wrote the words to a song on my own for the first time.

~ Jeremy Camp

In the time of to Augustine, the conversation in the West mostly had been a Christian reaction to outside ideas. After Augustine, the Great Conversation would be about his ideas for centuries.

~ John Mark Reynolds

The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like the truth at all because it carries responsibility, and if I actually believe these things I have to do something about them. It is so, so cumbersome to believe anything. And it isn't cool.

~ Donald Miller

Where kairos is an event word—something that has a beginning and ending—repentance (metanoia) is a process word, as is believe (pistis). The Circle is a process, a way of living that does not have a specific beginning and ending. One does not become a disciple of Jesus and stand still; discipleship is a lifestyle of learning. And this learning begins with a change of heart.

~ Mike Breen

Love, its power and authority, always gets there first, comes to believe first, and always waits for the others, especially the leaders, to catch up! This is the reality of what happened among the disciples and the community of the Beloved Disciple, John, and those closest to Jesus, called His friends. They mature and develop differently from other disciples, and the community of the Church has to struggle with the fact that the last one anyone thought would be the leader was the one who betrayed Him and contributed to the dissolution of the disciples when Jesus was arrested and crucified.

~ Megan Mckenna

You can lead and motivate people without a certificate or title, what you need to do is to tell people a compelling secret that was only known to you.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

In populations experiencing trauma across a wide variety of settings, the portion of those experiencing ongoing PTSD is remarkably similar – one third. Ecclesiastes says woe to him who falls alone, but that the cord of THREE strands is not easily broken. Apparently deep in our human wiring is the resilience to be a buttress for those feeling overcome.

~ Andrew Zolli

DOING is often God's remedy for despair.

~ John Piper

At the fall, we became alienated not only from God and other people but also from ourselves.

~ R.c. Sproul

You have the chief spark of your health's fire, for you have true knowledge of the hand that guides the universe.

~ Boethius

Safe in the sovereignty of the Godhead, we can count on the fact that WE, rather than just our friends, enemies, or circumstances, will be transformed.

~ Brian Eshleman

You will find it a stronghold in the day of trial to plead your adoption. You have no rights as a subject, you have forfeited them by your treason; but nothing can forfeit a child's right to a father's protection.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord Jesus in glory.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Will you not this day make it your prayer? Lord, help me to glorify Thee; I am poor, help me to glorify Thee by contentment; I am sick, help me to give Thee honour by patience; I have talents, help me to extol Thee by spending them for Thee; I have time, Lord, help me to redeem it, that I may serve Thee; I have a heart to feel, Lord, let that heart feel no love but Thine, and glow with no flame but affection for Thee; I have a head to think, Lord, help me to think of Thee and for Thee; Thou hast put me in this world for something, Lord, show me what that is, and help me to work out my life-purpose.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The Christian knows no change with regard to God. He may be rich to-day and poor to-morrow; he may be sickly to-day and well to-morrow; he may be in happiness to-day, to-morrow he may be distressed-but there is no change with regard to his relationship to God. If He loved me yesterday, He loves me to-day.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

See, loving heart, how He delights in you. When you lean your head on His bosom, you not only receive, but you give Him joy; when you gaze with love upon His all-glorious face, you not only obtain comfort, but impart delight.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

He had been present in their minds not as a man but as an idea.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

The author holds up for inspection the fallacy of The Closed-Door Method wherein Christ's followers assume that if a decision is difficult to make it is not His will for us to make it because He would obviously not want us to do anything difficult.

~ David Platt

Accustomed to motion, he was forced to be still.

~ H.w. Brands

Eric Erikson writes that in their search for identity, adolescents need a place of stillness, a place to gather themselves.

~ Sherry Turkle

I wouldn't serve a God who wouldn't speak to me.George Foreman

~ Davis Miller

I'm listening to my son right now.

~ Brent Eshleman

She became at once more intimate and more exalted.

~ Richard Brookhiser

The commencement of all labor consisted in the preparation of his own soul.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

By nature, we get more pleasure from God's gifts then from Himself.

~ John Piper

The Christian life doesn't work because we are such great followers. It works because Christ is such a great Leader.

~ David Mcgee

Happiness is activity of soul.

~ Aristotle

Passion is a far better prioritizer than any organization system. Soul refreshment comes from SEEING glory – not getting stuff done.

~ Leland Ryken

We are not trying to manipulate God and tell Him what to do. Rather, we are asking Him to tell us what to do.

~ Richard J. Foster

Thomas Merton writes that if we have meditated on the events of the Passion but have not meditated on Dachau and Auschwitz, our perception of God at work in present times is incomplete.

~ Richard J. Foster

To listen to others quiets and disciplines the mind to listen to God.

~ Richard J. Foster

The most precious gifts you can think of are not ends in themselves. They all lead to God. Ultimately, that is what all His gifts are for.

~ John Piper