Discipleship Quotes

There's no such thing as a mistake, really. It's just an opportunity to do something else.

~ Ralph Steadman

[T]he road to character is built by confronting your own weakness.

~ David Brooks

Bob Dylan's Christianity has been allusive, idiosyncratic, and never the sort to place him on anyone's side in any Kulturkampf.

~ Christopher Caldwell

True service is a lifestyle. It acts from the ingrained patterns of living. It springs spontaneously to meet human need.

~ Richard J. Foster

Radical self-denial gives the feel of adventure. If we forsake all, we even have the chance of glorious martyrdom. But in service, we must experience the many little death of going beyond ourselves. Service banishes us to the mundane, the ordinary, the trivial

~ Richard J. Foster

Frasier (Responding to the suggestion that he undertake the difficult work of closure in a relationship): What you just said about my success made a lot of sense. I tuned you out after that.

~ Frasier Crane

The counselee should be aware that you are not God. Better yet, she should be aware that you are aware that you are not God.

~ James Macdonald

They (Reagan and Kennedy) had some combination of cheerfulness and vulnerability that made them seem like boys on adventure who had become lost in needed a small kindness to get them back on the right path.

~ Scott Farris

If I turn mine eyes upon myself, I find myself a traitor with the rest

~ ;William Shakespeare

I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that it is authentic.

~ Richard Rohr

A major element in Lincoln's greatness was the way in which he could hold a strong moral position without the usual accompaniment of self-righteousness.

~ Elton Trueblood

You will only learn in a fight how much you've got to learn.

~ Richard Llewellyn

What kind of ministry is that, just talking to people? Criticism directed at Francis Schaeffer's plan to open an obscure spot in the Swiss Alps to those who came with questions.

~ Nancy Pearcey

Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

What could make a man stands taller than a newborn son?

~ Beth Moore

They chose to regard it as a miraculous preservation.

~ E.m. Forster

The fight for joy is first and always a fight to see.

~ John Piper

The power of the bleeding love of God is stronger than the power of Caesar, of the law, of Mars, Mammon, Aphrodite and the rest. This is the point that Paul grasped. And that is the reason for the Colossians' gratitude. The battle has been won.

~ N.t. Wright

True spirituality is not taught, it's caught. Once our sails have been unfurled to the Spirit, henceforth our motivation for the journey toward holiness and wholeness is immense gratitude.

~ Richard Rohr

If God declares that all is well, ten thousand devils may declare it to be ill, but we laugh them all to scorn. Blessed be God for a faith which enables us to believe God when the creatures contradict Him.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

To a great extent in spiritual things we get what we expect of the Lord. Faith alone can bring us to see Jesus.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

No man is considered just and virtuous who does not know whence he came and wither he is going. – Napoleon

~ Andrew Roberts

Any journalist who holds the office writes in a straitjacket.

~ Harold Holzer

I work pretty hard for a sufficient living, and therefore – yes, I do well.

~ Charles Dickens

Who can be astonished at anything, when he has once been astonished at the manger and the cross? What is there wonderful left after one has seen the Saviour?

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The 20th century, the author observes, fostered the idea that fulfillment is possible on Earth.

~ Jennifer Senior

We put up a kind of spiritual firewall and make a conscious effort to shut out the headlines, because our (Bible) discussions are meant to be timeless.

~ John Kasich

It is easy to get faith into our heads. It is hard to get faith into our bloodstream.

~ R.c. Sproul

If you knew how the journey was going to end, you could afford to be patient along the path.

~ Joseph J. Ellis

You don't realize your story is changing you until you look back.

~ Donald Miller

When the convert emerges from the water, the world seems changed. The world has not changed, it is always wonderful and horrible, iniquitous and filled with beauty. But now, after baptism, the eyes that see the world have changed.

~ Liturgy Training Publications

Much of our understanding of God's action in outlying is achieved in hindsight. When a particular crisis or event in our life has passed we cry out in astonishment like Jacob, The Lord is in this place and I never knew it.

~ Sheila Cassidy

His eyes touched lightly, and passed on.

~ Davis Bunn

Chaucer, like Homer, writes about a journey, but as a Christian he has a different goal. Homer wanted to go home, but Chaucer's pilgrims want a place of man's true home: paradise

~ John Mark Reynolds

There is nothing quite as destructive to the gospel of Jesus Christ as the use of language that dismisses the way Jesus talks and prays and takes up instead the rhetoric of smiling salesmanship or vicious invective.

~ Eugene H. Peterson

I found myself speaking more slowly (in an attempt to obey the Bible in speech), as if I was speaking French instead of English.

~ A.j. Jacobs

G-rated language is making me a less angry person. Behavior shapes emotion.

~ A.j. Jacobs

Tell someone to do something, and you change their life–for a day; tell someone a story and you change their life.

~ N.t. Wright

A brother's sympathy is more precious than an angel's embassy.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

He had a courtly way of exclaiming over whatever was exclaimable in people – especially kids.

~ Susan Cain