Discipleship Quotes

Drivers should not drive more than a minute without having a (purposefully-designed) curve.

~ Tom Vanderbilt

Accept suffering as a part of God's tenderizing process.

~ John F. Macarthur Jr.

To nurture your career, it makes sense to cultivate your strengths. To nurture your moral core, it is necessary to confront your weaknesses.

~ David Brooks

You can’t build rich lives simply by reading sermons or following abstract rules. Example is the best teacher. Moral improvement occurs most reliably when the heart is warmed

~ David Brooks

The inner struggle against one’s own weaknesses is the central drama of life.

~ David Brooks

After a sharp inward struggle, he concluded to stay and see it out. He should despise himself, more than he cared to face, if he gave in now.

~ Thomas Hughes

Courage was not something one picked out of the air. It was something like a bank account. You could withdraw only so much before it was necessary to stop, to take the time to make new deposits.

~ Tom Clancy

Character is the main object of education.

~ Mary Wooley

True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.

~ Richard Rohr

Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because one is going to need it. A temptation resisted may become more, not less, fierce.

~ N.t. Wright

If any have more of the government of thee than Christ, or if thou hadst rather live after any other laws than his, if it were at thy choice, thou art not his disciple (331).

~ Richard Baxter

Contentment is not a power that may be exercised naturally, but a science to be acquired gradually.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We lose much consolation by the habit of reading His promises for the whole church, instead of taking them directly home to ourselves.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The cornerstone of the Roman legionnaires' astonishing fighting spirit can be attributed to their training.

~ Peter Heather

No one has ever been deeply changed by an act of the will. The only thing that can re-forge and change a life at its root, is love.

~ Timothy J. Keller

Change from despair to joy he made her extremely beautiful.

~ Margaret Landon

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

~ Sinclair Lewis

Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study.

~ Idries Shah

Pat Conroy embraced his new hometown with the grateful passion of a refugee.

~ William Grimes

The wings of the dove are as soft as they are swift. Gentleness is a sure result of the Sacred Dove's transforming power: hearts touched by His benign influence are meek and lowly henceforth and for ever.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The author emphasizes the importance of self-forgetfulness when his statistics were marred by a bad outing. He forgot all of that outing to such an extent that he quipped, What was my name?

~ Jim Bouton

When meeting criticism, he would regard it not as something to resent but as a thing to be examined, like an interesting beetle. That's a curious view, not uninteresting.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Nietzsche tended to equate the memorable with the painful.

~ Harold Bloom

The author writes that key FDR aide Harry Hopkins was in such poor health near the end of his boss's second term that one observer said he didn't know how Hopkins could possibly report to the president. But, at the onset of war and genuine national emergency, Hopkins was animated with a new sense of purpose.

~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

Prayer is the forerunner of mercy.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Alas! it is but little we have done for our Master's glory. Our winter has lasted all too long. We are as cold as ice when we should feel a summer's glow and bloom with sacred flowers.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A good therapy helps you develop a sense of irony about your life so that when you start to repeat old and unhelpful patterns, something within you says, There you go again; let's call this to a halt. You can do something different. Often the first step toward doing something different is developing the capacity to not act, to stay still and reflect.

~ Sherry Turkle

We have to love technology enough to describe it accurately. And we have to love ourselves enough to confront technology's true effect on us.

~ Sherry Turkle

Are you dedicated to your patient or your ego?

~ M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team

Regular, modest failures are actually essential to many forms of resilience.

~ Andrew Zolli

Weakness is not the problem, but my delusion of my strengths is.

~ Paul David Tripp

Something greater than me was happening. And yet, it was happening to me.

~ Dick Van Dyke

It is not great counts God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

My own spirit, soul, and body are my nearest machinery for sacred service.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

In brokenness comes beauty, divine fragility.

~ Mercyme

The Book that made the nation was destroying the nation.

~ Mark A. Noll

The more broken you are, the more light gets through.

~ Jason Gray

Development is a voluntary process. You need a positive decision to make the right steps, but it starts with introspection.

~ Thomas L. Friedman

We never move on from the cross. We only get a more profound understanding of the cross.

~ C.j. Mahaney

Her characters tend to err when they reject the grubby and complex circumstances of everyday life for abstract and radical notions. They thrive when they work within the rooted spot, the concrete habit, the particular reality of their town and family.

~ David Brooks