Discipleship Quotes

Though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little.

~ Edith Hamilton

The thing you do with a boy it is to show him all the to show. Don't hold nothing back.

~ Flannery O'connor

A Christian understanding of the world sees a child's character not as genetically determined but as shaped to a significant degree by parental discipleship and discipline.

~ Russell D. Moore

Children make theories when they are confused or anxious.

~ Sherry Turkle

The goodness of the mother is written in the gaiety of the child.

~ Victor Hugo

When young people are insecure, they find ways to manufacture love tests – personal metrics to reassure themselves.

~ Sherry Turkle

What makes a mother? Looking at your child and identifying emotion

~ Jennifer Senior

We are partners with our children because we are just like them, dearly loved sinners.

~ Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

The Lord teaches us of His grace and the Gospel through difficult children. We learn what it's like to love like He loved. It is there, in our personal upper room, where we learn to wash the feet of those that are betraying us. It is there, kneeling before our rebellious children, that the real power of God is demonstrated.

~ Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

(Taft's mother's) losing her firstborn had convinced her that children are treasures lent not given and that they may be recalled at any time. Parents, she firmly believed, could never love their children too much.

~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

Imagine what it must be like for teenagers who don't feel they have room to breathe in their own homes. If you are a parent reading this book, you care about your child. If she is quirky, unusual, or nonconformist, ask yourself whether you are doing everything you can to nurture her unusual interests, style, or skills, or whether instead you are directly or subtly pushing her to hide them.

~ Alexandra Robbins

Because we don't know the state of our children's souls, and because they might simply want to please us by praying to be saved, we must continue to give them the Law and encourage them to ask God for faith to believe that He is as good as He says He is.

~ Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

Part of the genius of (Nick) Sabin's system was that he understood that no matter the skill set, he was inheriting vulnerable kids from various backgrounds. For those times when they made poor decisions, as they invariably did, the safety net must be strong as far and wide as possible.

~ Jeff Benedict

Your child may be under more stress than you realize. Remember that situations around to past experiences. Just because you do not see something as a big deal does not mean it is not for your child.

~ Kara G. Durbin

Young children especially need the visual reinforcement of seeing you turn to Scripture for wisdom.

~ Kara G. Durbin

Once you put yourself on the lookout for teachable moments, you'll find them everywhere!

~ Kara G. Durbin

We sucked in atheism with our canned milk.

~ Joy Davidman

The single greatest reason why we are losing a generation is because the home is no longer the place of the transference of the faith. We live in a day of ‘outsourcing’…Today, we have a generation of people that outsource their kids.

~ Tony Evans

Correction badly undertaken creates distance.

~ Kevin Thoman

Last words of his mother to his father: Keep eternity before the children.

~ Dallas Willard

We've taken the lifeblood out of Christianity and put Kool-Aid in its place so that it tastes better to the crowds, and the consequences are catastrophic. ~Follow Me, pg. 7

~ David Platt

God’s Word is the living seed that brings new birth. It is the milk that nurtures the new life of a young Christian and the meat that builds the muscle of a mature believer.

~ Colin S. Smith

Where doest Thou feed Thy flock? In Thy house? I will go, if I may find Thee there. In private prayer? Then I will pray without ceasing. In the Word? Then I will read it diligently. In Thine ordinances? Then I will walk in them with all my heart. Tell me where Thou feedest, for wherever Thou standest as the Shepherd, there will I lie down as a sheep.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We learn the language of prayer by immersing ourselves in the language that God uses to reveal Himself to us.

~ Eugene H. Peterson

Describing the relationship between the biblical witnesses and the theologians who come after, the author challenges that the theologian is not to correct the notebooks of the biblical writers like some high school teacher. Instead, our theology is always subject to what THEY say, as we willingly submit our notebooks for their approval.

~ Karl Barth

I cannot read God's mind, however I can read God's Word.

~ R.c. Sproul

A continual diet of the Word satisfies, and it builds an appetite for more.

~ James Macdonald

(The monks) approach was far less narcissistic and our tends to be. Their goal when reading Scripture was to see Christ in every verse, and not a mirror image of themselves.

~ Donald Miller

You'd think God would come right out and tell us what to do in the Bible, but He doesn't. He mostly tells stories, and He rarely stops the story to say what the point is. He just lets the characters and conflict hang in the air like smoke.

~ Donald Miller

Just as at sea those who are carried away from the direction of the harbor bring themselves back on course by a clear sign, on seeing a tall beacon light or some mountain peak coming into view, so Scripture may guide those adrift on the sea of the life back into the harbor of the divine will.

~ Gregory Of Nyssa

Any serious reading of the Bible means personal involvement in it, not symbol mental agreement with abstract propositions. And involvement is dangerous, because it leaves one open to unforeseen conclusions.

~ Megan Mckenna

The Bible is different because it is the Word of God, by which He speaks to me. Disagreeing with the Bible would be disagreeing with God. So when I read the Bible I want to place myself ‘under’ it. I want to receive the Scripture in such a way that over time, my thinking, feeling, choosing, believing and behaving will be molded by the Word God is speaking into my life. I don’t want to critique the Scriptures; I want them to critique me and change me.

~ Colin S. Smith

To many, The Bible is a form of verbal wallpaper, pleasant enough in the background, but he stop thinking about it after you have lived in the house for a few weeks.

~ N.t. Wright

Because I am not yet living up to what Jesus expects me to be in those red letters in the Bible, I always define myself as somebody who is saved by God's grace and is on his way to becoming a Christian. (...) Being saved is trusting in what Christ did for us, but being Christian is dependent on the way we respond to what he did for us.

~ Tony Campolo

Do we have Your Mark 10:39 faith that You will complete what You have begun in us? Or, do we look at our faltering desires and despair or excuse? Let us, Lord Jesus, hear Your Word over us more clearly and emphatically than we hear our own projections. Our predictions come from walking by sight, and they are SO often wrong that we ought to abandon them out of sheer practicality.

~ Brian Eshleman

No sooner is there a good thing in the world, than a division is necessary.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

In his book The Soul of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois writes about always feeling his twoness-- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; to warring ideals in one dark body.

~ Ron Suskind

I knew that (job) had to be a humbling role for my dad, but he never allowed it to become humiliating work.

~ Jeremy Camp

We are caught in the in between of what we already are what we are yet to be.

~ Tenth Avenue North

Could circumstances possibly change who I forever am in You?

~ Mercyme