Discipleship Quotes

This message God was communicating to mankind, this Gospel of Jesus, was a message to the heart as much as to the head, that the methodology was as important as the message itself, that the message could not be presented accurately outside of the emotions within which these truths were embedded.

~ Donald Miller

The little estimate we put on prayer is evidence from the little time we give to it.

~ E.m. Bounds

Everybody wants a miracle, we just don't want to be in a situation where we need one. You can't have one without the other. Sometimes what we perceive as our problem is really God setting us up to do something miraculous in our lives. It's about training ourselves to see those problems as opportunities so God can intervene.

~ Mark Batterson

God answered prayers first by teaching the need to ask, second by using friends as holy messengers.

~ Davis Bunn

Lord, I am willing to break MY heart that I might satisfy THY heart.

~ Watchman Nee

God will not give me humility, or patience, or holiness, or love as separate investments of His grace. He has given only one gift to meet our need, His Son Christ Jesus.

~ Watchman Nee

As your father keeps clean his lamp to have good light, so keep clean your spirit.

~ Richard Llewellyn

God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him. God is great because nothing is too small for Him, either.

~ Mark Batterson

Not only did Jesus purposefully enter the wilderness on a regular basis but historically, God seems to prefer meeting with man in these desert regions.

~ Amy Layne Litzelman

Some teachers only teach us and go but some teachers teach us and they leave indelible footprints which continue to teach us forever! Great teachers live and leave distinctive footprints. Great teachers, though they go, their footprints forever live in our minds and inspire the body and the soul in a distinctive way !

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Learning is the heart of discipleship. You can't just take up your cross daily. You need to take up the Bible every day.

~ Mark Batterson

Just open your eyes! I thought. These desperate poor are your gurus.

~ Martin Sheen

The separation of truth from reason is a dangerous game. I think ideas have to sink very deeply into a person's soul, into their being, before they can effect change.

~ Donald Miller

Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning.

~ Mark Batterson

I'm not trying to bleed you. I want to renew you.

~ W.p. Kinsella

Father to teenage son: My relationship with you is more important than anything I've got to say to you.

~ Randy Alcorn

Because of the Resurrection, our natural reaction must be to get past our emotional reactions as quickly as possible and reflect on what happened in light of the cross and the resurrection and our own baptisms into that defining reality – to the life-giving and life-affirming waters of forgiveness and reconciliation.

~ Megan Mckenna

The way to transmute the pain of life is to reveal the wounded side of things, evil, even, and then place the wound inside of sacred space. The Bible is about naming, facing, and then forgiving the wounds of history.

~ Richard Rohr

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.

~ Richard Rohr

God can make good use of all that happens, but the loss is real.

~ C.s. Lewis

Alex had cooked, and coaxed, and helped Mark form borders around the shapeless days. Alex had given meaning to the word servant.

~ Davis Bunn

Laboratory research suggests that how we look and act in the virtual affect our behavior in the real.

~ Sherry Turkle

It is one thing being disciplined to plan and it is another thing being a disciple of great work. Be your own disciplinarian.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

In the face of Jesus’ dogged steadfastness, how could we but offer him our own loyal allegiance? As we have seen, our decision to serve Jesus should be made not in order to earn Jesus’ grace but as a response to it. He who has given so much for us can rightly call us to lay down our lives for him. Recognizing that we will continue to stumble and fall short of his impeccable standard, we nonetheless strain onward out of gratitude for his mercy and kindness to us. Why do we serve the poor or preach the Gospel? Why do we continue with the otherwise foolish work of peace-making or justice-seeking? Not out of some neurotic fear of losing God’s favor but precisely because we have tasted that favor and would do anything for the one who died to win it for us.

~ Michael Frost

To be in Jesus' easy yoke is an easy way of doing hard things. (p. 202)

~ Bill Gaultiere

Jesus has to become real to us. We need to court him and get to know him better. Go on some dates with the Lord.

~ Sandra M. Michelle

Your commitment to Jesus is a beautiful thing, but it will eventually dwindle down, unless you fully understand His commitment to you.

~ Carlos A. Rodriguez

He (Peter) doesn't know if he's looking into the eyes of a madman, or the eyes of a King.

~ Roma Downey

Jesus said his disciples would be known for their love, not for their placards of protest and angry letters to the editor.

~ Brian Zahnd

There is a kind of listening with half an ear that presumes already to know what the other person has to say. It is an impatient, inattentive listening, that despises the brother and is only waiting for a chance to speak and thus get rid of the other person. This is no fulfillment of our obligation, and it is certain that here too our attitude toward our brother only reflects our relationship to God. It is little wonder that we are no longer capable of the greatest service of listening that God has committed to us, that of hearing our brother's confession, if we refuse to give ear to our brother on lesser subjects. Secular education today is aware that often a person can be helped merely by having someone who will listen to him seriously, and upon this insight it has constructed its own soul therapy, which has attracted great numbers of people, including Christians. But Christians have forgotten that the ministry of listening has been committed to them by Him who is Himself the great listener and whose work they should share. We should listen with the ears of God that we may speak the Word of God.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Jesus loved manhood so much, that He delighted to honour it; and since it is a high honour, and indeed, the greatest dignity of manhood, that Jesus is the Son of man

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We find it difficult to distinguish between spiritual combatants… and their hostages.

~ Russell D. Moore

So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold those opinions about.

~ Stephen L. Carter

Martin Luther used to say temptation is the best teacher for a minister.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It is only when you suffer that you truly understand.

~ Jules Verne

It is not loving to impose our own grid onto others. We need to understand their situation and their needs accurately, and this comes from listening to them, not coming in with our own assumptions.

~ Matt Perman

The moral crisis she'd just gone through made her feel indulgent toward the faults, the delinquencies of others. How thoroughly a human being can be buffeted and over-mastered by fate had been borne in upon her with appalling force.

~ Emmuska Orczy

He keeps his voice kindly but remote. A cross between a pedagogue, soothsayer, and a benevolent uncle – that should be his tone.

~ Margaret Atwood

You can unlock spiritual things only from within.

~ Richard Rohr

When the range and depth of the suffering of others and what we do to one another no longer bothers us, nor moves us to remedy the situation and stop the pain, then we have lost a part of our own humanity, our own soul.

~ Megan Mckenna