Discipleship Quotes

It is the heaven-born instinct of a gracious soul to seek shelter from all ills beneath the wings of Jehovah. A hypocrite, when afflicted by God, resents the infliction, and, like a slave, would run from the Master who has scourged him

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It was well to be Martha and serve, but better to be Lazarus and commune.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I've never found time to indulge more than a single ambition.

~ Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr.

The intensity of the love of the upright is not so much to be judged by what it appears as by what the upright long for. It is our daily lament that we cannot love enough.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

When grace has won the day, the worldling seeks the world to come.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Never was living beauty so enchanting as a dying Saviour.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We ascribe to God. We don't add to Him.

~ John Piper

When we shift from personal purity to personal happiness, we lose biblical hope because we are not focusing on God's agenda, we are focusing on our own. God's agenda is guaranteed on our agenda is not.

~ James Macdonald

And morning came… It still comes. Our God is here, Emmanuel, among us, always coming towards us, always standing behind us, always standing up for us, always standing with us in solidarity in communion asking us to come with Him now as disciple, as follower, as believer, as a friend, as intimate beloved child of God, now and forever.

~ Megan Mckenna

(Pastor Chuck) Smith told his elders in no uncertain terms that if the church had to turn away young people because of bare feet and clothes that they would be better off ripping up the carpet and replacing the pews with steel folding chairs.

~ Larry Eskridge

The idea of waste only comes into our Christianity when we underestimate the worth of our Lord.

~ Watchman Nee

Christian spirituality combines a sense of the awe and majesty of God with a sense of His intimate presence.

~ N.t. Wright

We need both reverence and obedience. If we worship but do not walk in obedience and discipline, we are emotional, lacking self-control and godly character. If we obey God’s commandments but are not true worshipers, we become religious and judgmental. As the Pharisees in Jesus’ day, we may miss the real meaning and purpose, even God Himself.

~ Amy Layne Litzelman

I always have the feeling we are merely fearfully trying to save room for God; I would rather speak of God at the center than at the limits, in strength rather than weakness, and thus in human life and goodness rather than in death and guilt.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In the sympathy of Christ we find a sustaining power.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The Holy Ghost is no temporary gift, He abides with the saints. We have but to seek Him aright, and He will be found of us. He is jealous, but He is pitiful; if He leaves in anger, He returns in mercy. Condescending and tender, He does not weary of us, but awaits to be gracious still.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The Jesus Movement had survived the fad phase and was settling down for the long haul.

~ Larry Eskridge

The soul is torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

~ Augustine Of Hippo

You must teach me the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters.

~ Frank Herbert

We will have to work hard to rest.

~ Kevin Deyoung

Faith enables you to hold on loosely without letting go.

~ John Kasich

I did my best parenting by prayer. I began to speak less to the kids and more to God. It was actually quite relaxing.

~ Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

Jesus had no regard for the lifeboat politics you and I live within every day.

~ Donald Miller

Belief and confusion are not mutually exclusive; I believe that belief gives you the direction in the confusion. But you don't see the full picture. That's the point. That's what faith is. You can't see it. It comes back to instinct. Faith is just up the street. Faith and instinct, you can't just rely on them. You have to beat them up. You have to pummel them to make sure they can withstand it, to make sure they can be trusted.

~ Bono

My cell phone is my only individual zone, just for me.

~ Sherry Turkle

Show me a person in my shoes who is looking for a robot, and I'll show you someone who is looking for a person and can't find one.

~ Sherry Turkle

Who teaches young people to be so exquisitely sensitive to perceived slights, so ready to read affronts into routine events in everyday life? Their teachers no doubt.

~ George F. Will

The end is where we start from. T.S. Eliot

~ Eugene H. Peterson

Workers who can consistently decide with clarity and ease which tasks are most important when under pressure are the most prized in every organization. Highly focused in pressure-cooker situations, they rise to meet the challenges of an opportunity-saturated workplace that demands tough calls at every step.

~ Julie Morgenstern

You can't counter a heroic impulse with a mundane and bourgeois response. You can counter it only with a more compelling heroic vision.

~ David Brooks

I can't say I ever remember getting less than a whole child in my 29 years here.They come in whole and I teach 'em that way.

~ David Kahn

Knowledge (curriculum) and behavior (pedagogy) are embedded in everyone’s core beliefs about the nature of God, humanity, and the world.

~ Abraham Kuyper

This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.

~ Rebecca Goldstein

Jesus' simple poetic words are delivered casually and gently. Jesus prefers to explain a difficult concept over time, never talking down to His followers, patiently letting the words soak in until they understand them fully.

~ Roma Downey

When we concentrate on preaching what people WANT to hear we will only succeed in exciting their flash and depressing their spirit.

~ Olabisi Obideyi

Apprenticeship assumes that knowing a trade not only comes by numbers and outlines but also by watching and inhabiting. Knowing is found in these forms, because teaching is. We teach not only by our words and assignments but also by the manner of our words and the ways we ourselves already embody the assignments we give.

~ Zack Eswine

The author charted the importance of human examples on his spiritual journey, confessing that when harsh and domineering people based their bullying on Christ's authority, he rebelled. But when his wife represented the gracefulness of Christ's character, he was drawn back to know Christ more fully.

~ Don Wilton

you cannot be friends either with boy or man unless you give yourself away in the process, and Mr. Pembroke did not commend this. He, for “personal intercourse,” substituted the safer “personal influence,” and gave his junior hints on the setting of kindly traps, in which the boy does give himself away and reveals his shy delicate thoughts, while the master, intact, commends or corrects them.Originally Rickie had meant to help boys in the anxieties that they undergo when changing into men: at Cambridge he had numbered this among life’s duties. But here is a subject in which we mustinevitably speak as one human being to another, not as one who has authority or the shadow of authority, and for this reason the elder school-master could suggest nothing but a few formulae. Formulae, like kindly traps, were not in Rickie’s line, so he abandoned thesesubjects altogether and confined himself to working hard at what was easy.

~ E.m. Forster

The Bible provocatively evokes desire.

~ Jen Pollock Michel

The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life.

~ Donald Miller