Discipleship Quotes

Lee was a born pedagogue, never happier than when his children were learning to do something the right way. It is a testament to Lee's affection and patience that his children did not rebel. In fact, they appear to have thrived.

~ Michael Korda

While he was conscious of improving at every stroke, he did not feel that the other was asserting any superiority over him; and so, though more humble than at the most disastrous period of his downward voyage, he was getting into a better temper every minute.

~ Thomas Hughes

Find the good, and praise it.

~ Alex Haley

Shanahan (the head coach) doesn't allow failure to take root.

~ Stefan Fatsis

I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it.

~ John Updike

I suppose it's unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C.S.) Lewis does, what I feel is a craftsman's joy at the sight of a superior performance.

~ Joy Davidman

We listened, as all boys in their better moods will listen (ay, and men too for the matter of that), to a man whom we felt to be, with all his heart and soul and strength, striving against whatever was mean and unmanly and unrighteous in our little world. It was not the cold, clear voice of one giving advice and warning from serene heights to those who were struggling and sinning below, but the warm, living voice of one who was fighting for us and by our sides, and calling on us to help him and ourselves and one another.

~ Thomas Hughes

Do what you are doing. Monastic motto

~ Rick Perlstein

The whitest robes, unless their purity be preserved by divine grace, will be defiled by the blackest spots.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Trying to know God and serve Him before we come to love Him is exhausting.

~ Beth Moore

She had been carried away by the need to defend herself.

~ Stephen L. Carter

The nobility of England would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. But you'll labor like scholars over a bulldog's pedigree.

~ Robert Bolt

I found myself with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause.

~ Charles Dickens

If thou rememberest that thou art going to heaven, thou wilt not sleep on the road. If thou thinkest that hell is behind thee, and the devil pursuing thee, thou wilt not loiter.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

There is a rich literature on how to break out of quandary thinking. It suggests that sometimes it helps to turn from the abstract to the concrete.

~ Sherry Turkle

Prayer is listening.

~ Søren Kierkegaard

Be fervent in God, and let nothing grieve you, whatever you encounter.

~ Hadewijch

Being that 'reason is not antithetical to faith' (Woods) and that Pentecost established the Reality of super-nature (Lewis) and that 'theology matters' (Wimber), then 'empowered evangelicalism' (Nathan) is the natural expression of discipleship.~R. Alan Woods [2013]

~ R. Alan Woods

Help our response, Lord, not to be, WHAT are You doing?! Instead, give us the perspective to ask, Lord, what would You teach?

~ Brian Eshleman

When it comes to doing something about what is wrong in the world, Jesus is best known for his fondness for the minute, the invisible, the quiet, the slow – yeast, salt, seeds, light. And manure.

~ Eugene H. Peterson

The Atreides are known to start late getting there growth.

~ Frank Herbert

Better to wait actively than passively.

~ Stephen L. Carter

It takes courage to seek God, and courage to wait for His reply.

~ John Eldredge

All of life comes in seed form – not as monuments.

~ Amy Layne Litzelman

Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only deceived; the fruit that seemed so precious is still green on the inside, and disrespected hands ungratefully toss aside what has so disappointed them.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

You cannot have a moral holiday and remain moral, nor can you have a spiritual holiday and remain spiritual. God wants you to be entirely his, and this means that you have to watch to keep yourself fit. It takes a tremendous amount of time. Some of us expect to “clear the numberless ascensions”* in about two minutes.

~ Oswald Chambers

We would like a church that again asserts that God, not nations, rules the world, that the boundaries of God's kingdom transcend those of Caesar, and that the main political task of the church is the formation of people who see clearly the cost of discipleship and are willing to pay the price.

~ Stanley Hauerwas

If colleges are going to justify themselves, they are going to have to thrive at those things that require physical proximity. That includes moral and spiritual development. Very few of us cultivate our souls as hermits. We do it through small groups and relationships and in social contexts.

~ David Brooks

Like the hub of a wheel, the church’s corporate life is an extension of the good news that God was in Christ reconciling the whole world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them.

~ Harold L. Senkbeil

Being a “Christian” – a word used only three times in the New Testament – is not Jesus’ goal for his people. But the making of a community of revolutionary followers or “disciples” – a word used nearly three hundred times in the New Testament – seems to be exactly the goal. The church must return to these roots. The church must become a way of life, an alternative lifestyle, a counter-community of Christ-followers. Church must once again become a people who are on “The Way” formed by the words and way of Jesus.

~ Ronnie Mcbrayer

Jesus did not command us to develop leaders. He commanded us to make disciples. The world develops leaders, the Church disciples them. The two are not the same.

~ John Paul Warren

Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Romance depends upon imperfect knowledge.

~ Harold Bloom

Terror and rapture to Emily Dickinson are alternative words for transport.

~ Harold Bloom

Only he who cries out for the persecuted Jews can sing Gregorian chants. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

~ Jen Pollock Michel

J.R.R. Tolkien told a questioning correspondent, life's purpose is to know, praise, and thank God.

~ Philip Zaleski

I’m feeling very thin and vulnerable, in a good way.

~ Amy Layne Litzelman

If I can hold God's attention, I can hold the world's..

~ Dolly Parton

We are hardwired for glory because we are hardwired for God.

~ Paul David Tripp

The more loftily we see Christ enthroned, and the more lowly we are when bowing before the foot of the throne, the more truly shall we be prepared to act our part towards Him.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon