Discipleship Quotes

The essence of a mature human being in religious terms is the ability to see, to be aware of others' suffering and to be touched by it.

~ Megan Mckenna

There are two choices: to be human, made in the image of God, with Jesus; warp to be in human, consumed with greed and on aware of the pain that is inflicted upon others. Put in simple options, it is to be human and forgive, make peace in spite of all hatred, or to be in human and kill, dividing the spoils. To be dead before you die.

~ Megan Mckenna

The heart of a Christian, who believes and feels, cannot pass the hardships and deprivations of the poor without helping them.

~ Louis Guanella

We have the spotless Lamb of God bound up in a human body. This is the One who loved us so much that He was willing to reduce Himself to a human egg. The Immaculate Conception was not just about the epitome of love and grace, it was about the willingness of the Son to travel the journey of the human experience.

~ Don Wilton

I hated the flashcards and I hated the multiplication tables, but I did enjoy the fact that my dad took time out of his schedule to help me in the areas in which I needed it.

~ Sara Dormon

Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.

~ Richard Rohr

We do not handle suffering. Suffering handles us.

~ Richard Rohr

Your current situation and workplace are your personal mission field. Why? Because you can reach people a church can't. You're on the front lines!

~ Jarrid Wilson

Don't sweat the small stuff doesn't work with parenting small children. They only work in small stuff. They aren't making company decisions. They are deciding whether to use a crayon on the wall. – Bill Klein

~ The Little Couple

Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.

~ Harold Bloom

The president notices that when he takes off his coat to dig, people take more notice of the visual than they did his preceding remarks.

~ Paul C. Nagel

He must become an apprentice to ordinary life.

~ Paul C. Nagel

He wasn't an especially charismatic or commanding individual, but what he lacked in personality he emphatically made up for in diligence.

~ Dan Jones

A husband's work as provider will be so difficult that it can only be fulfilled in the power of the Spirit and a transformed life.

~ John F. Macarthur Jr.

Christians ought to have a different approach to business. As believers, we should view work as both service and a form of worship.

~ Charles W. Colson

Our task is to carry the Lord's peace into every situation, into every duty.

~ Davis Bunn

Shoddy work is not just shoddy work. It's a failure of love.

~ Matt Perman

Cause every task of your day to be a sacred ministry to the Lord. however mundane your duties, for you they are a sacrament.

~ Richard J. Foster

watch out for schools that promise your kids will experience success. I'm teaching Plato's Dialogues these days, and I noticed that Socrates never let his students experience success. Socrates won the argument every time.

~ David Kahn

The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

~ Abraham Lincoln

The unavoidable harshness of life surprised none of them, for they were Christians one and all, believing that they inhabited a fallen world, albeit one filled with God's grace.

~ Philip Zaleski

The idyll ended, as idylls must.

~ Philip Zaleski

Thy faith never looks so grand in summer weather as it does in winter?

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Sometimes the imagination could be even crueler than the bone saw.

~ Robert Kurson

Paul looked down at the hand that had known pain, and then up to the Reverend Mother. The sound of her voice contained a difference than from any other voicing his experience. The words were outlined in brilliance. There was an edge to them.

~ Frank Herbert

Pain is holy ground in a person's life.

~ Jason Gray

King was a transformed person. Evil was no longer a theory.

~ Troy Jackson

Survivor is not a label you choose for yourself.

~ Harry Smith

At Gethsemane: Jesus is subordinating His loudest desires to His deepest desires.

~ Timothy J. Keller

Resurrection hope turned those who believed it into a counter-empire, an alternative society that knew the worst that tyrants could do and knew that the true God had the answer.

~ Bible Review

People who have been initiated broke through in what felt like breaking down.

~ Richard Rohr

You've been told that you're broken, that you're damaged goods and should be labeled victims. I don't buy it. The truth, instead, is that you are the only folks with the skills, determination, and values to ensure American dominance in this chaotic world.

~ James Mattis

Hurt is a great teacher, maybe the greatest of all.

~ Pat Conroy

Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won where the way leads to the cross.

~ Megan Mckenna

Faith is an action. He (one criminal on the cross) puts himself one step lower than where he was, sharing Jesus' place of poverty, insecurity, and the focus of rage. Remember me. And he will be remembered, because of his association with the Crucified One.

~ Megan Mckenna

Who are we aligning ourselves with? Are we aligning ourselves with the presence of God as it is abused, broken, bleeding, and mocked and scorned even now in this world? Do we take that one step down, risking insecurity, violence, guilt by association, to stand beside those who are both victim and accused, and public sinner – criminal and despised in society?

~ Megan Mckenna

Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.

~ Elisabeth Elliot

What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a capacity for faithfulness. Buffeted by the fickle winds of failure, battered by their own unruly emotions, and bruised by rejection and ridicule, authentic disciples may have stumbled and frequently fallen, endured lapses and relapses, gotten handcuffed to the fleshpots and wandered into a far county. Yet, they kept coming back to Jesus.

~ Brennan Manning

The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.

~ John Piper

Living according to God's standards is an acquired taste.

~ Rosaria Champagne Butterfield