Discipleship Quotes

The onslaught of scruples is a problem well attested in the spiritual life, especially among the young, where religious observances must be done perfectly to achieve a certain result.

~ Philip Zaleski

I had escaped the snare of certitude that I welcomed so avidly at first and entered, via the name of Jesus, the wide and comprehensive company of Jesus.

~ Eugene H. Peterson

He's not a safe safe or a tame God, securely lodged behind the bars of a distant Heaven; He has the most annoying manner of showing up when we least want Him; of confronting us in the strangest ways.

~ Thomas Merton

There is no balm in Gilead, but there is balm in God. There is no physician among the creatures, but the Creator is Jehovah-rophi.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be given) certain things for which youth craves – the chance for self-sacrifice for an ideal.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Jesus lived in occupied territory, in poverty and misery, and his stories and preaching are all about food, land, liberation from bondage and servitude and get. He preached about providing for those who lacked the most and were considered expendable, as the birds of the air, and yet in Jesus' eyes were where one found the treasure of heaven, here, now, on earth.

~ Megan Mckenna

Exercise and proper eating habits are very important, since the Bible says that the body is God’s holy temple, but I don’t think that superbodies equate with committed Christian discipleship. Some of the greatest saints I’ve known have been those with physical infirmities.

~ Billy Graham

Let us always remember that Christ calls men and women not only to trust Him as Savior, but also to follow Him as Lord. That call to discipleship must be part of our message if we are to be faithful to Him.

~ Billy Graham

To be a disciple is to be committed to Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord and committed to following Him every day. To be a disciple is also to be disciplined in our bodies, minds, and souls.

~ Billy Graham

Our minds must be set always to seek the will of the Lord. Following the progressive discipline revealed through the Bible will result in a walk of obedience to God.

~ Billy Graham

God does not discipline us to subdue us but to condition us for a life of usefulness and blessedness. In His wisdom, He knows that an uncontrolled life is an unhappy life, so He puts reins on our wayward souls that they may be directed into the paths of righteousness.

~ Billy Graham

It is no accident that the words discipline and disciple resemble each other in the English language. The most common word in the Gospels for a Christian is disciple.

~ Billy Graham

Christ never told his disciples that they would get an Academy Award for their performances, but He did tell them to expect to have troubles.

~ Billy Graham

Jesus Christ spoke frankly to His disciples concerning the future . . .In unmistakable language He told them that discipleship means a life of self-denial, and the bearing of a cross.

~ Billy Graham

Many Christians want the benefits of their belief, but they hesitate at the cost of discipleship.

~ Billy Graham

To be a disciple of Jesus means to learn from Him, to follow Him. The cost may be high.

~ Billy Graham

We are commissioned to make disciples, to bring them into the same direct relationship with Christ as those who left their nets and their fishing boats to become “fishers of men.

~ Billy Graham

Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of the church

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Every moment thou waitest does but increase thy misery, thine attempts to plume thyself and make thyself fit for Jesus are all vanity.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The only way to be productive is to realize we don't HAVE TO be productive. Our goal is to PLEASE God, not APPEASE God.

~ Matt Perman

We have created a culture of leadership development in the Church at the expense of ignore the ministry of the Church to making disciples.

~ John Paul Warren

I take account of my life and find that I have lived a lot and learned very little.

~ Pat Conroy

I liked to put young and old in the same room, because they would certainly have different takes on the same problem.

~ Antonio J. Méndez

Lewis is like a gateway, making the riches of Deep Church more accessible.

~ Alister E. Mcgrath

Prison does not silence ideas whose time has come.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to receive a flow of telegrams alternating news of a British victory by sea and a British victory by land.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

In the context of today, this WAS heroism.

~ John Howard Griffin

This is not an issue of geography. He IS of two worlds wherever he goes.

~ Ron Suskind

The first 10 days of a cattle drive were the most critical, as a stampede was most likely when the cattle were closest to their habitual home.

~ H.w. Brands

We will go no place where we cannot take our Master with us. While others take their liberty to sin, We will not renounce our liberty to rebuke and confront them.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

How to teach again what has been taught correctly it incorrectly 1000 thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is the hero's ultimate difficult task. How to render back into light-world language the speech-defying pronouncements of the dark? Many failures attest to the difficulties of this life-affirmative threshold.

~ Joseph Campbell

I'm Jewish in the way Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.

~ A.j. Jacobs

The formal definition of impact is a forcible contact between two things, and God has designed our lives for a collision course with the world.

~ David Platt

How vigilant we must be to ensure that we don’t allow our impression of Jesus to be held captive by the prevailing mores of our secular culture! Rather, it is essential that we continue to return to the Gospels to ensure that the reverse occurs: to allow Jesus to hold our hearts and imaginations captive in response to the dominant thinking of our time. For exiles trying to live faithfully within the host empire of post-Christendom, the Gospel stories are our most dangerous memories. They continue to fire our imaginations and remind us that it’s possible to thrive on foreign soil while serving Yahweh, but it’s the kind of thriving that often rejects popular wisdom. These stories are the standard by which we judge all other stories, all other descriptors of life today. If, after reading these dangerous biblical stories, you can’t imagine Jesus the Messiah as a televangelist, strutting around on stage in a flashy suit, playing it up for the cameras, then you are forced to reject this image and seek another mode of being Christ today.

~ Michael Frost

Fixate on whole cultures, not specific pieces of poverty. No specific intervention is going to turn around the life of a child or an adult in any consistent way, but if you can surround a person with a new culture, and different web of relationships, then they will absorb new habits of thought and behavior in ways you will never be able to measure or understand. And if you do surround that person with a new, enriching culture, then you had better keep surrounding them with it, because if they slip back into a different culture, and most of the gains will fade away.

~ David Brooks

Perhaps, she had dreamed, she would teach some future King, shaping his child mind for a new and better world.

~ Margaret Landon

The mother was conflicted between what she knows that what's possible.

~ Brooke Hauser

Jesus was trying to present value of a life of vulnerability in which one would have practical and needed experience of the same. It would be a life without baggage, so one would learn to accept others and their culture instead of always carrying along our own country's assumptions and calling them the Gospel.

~ Richard Rohr

I'm the only English thing they can vent their anger on.

~ Harold Holzer

If we cannot all FEEL alike, we can all FEED alike on the Bread Life.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon