Discipleship Quotes

Nothing but the infinite can ever satisfy me; I am such a great sinner that I must have infinite merit to wash my sin away; but we have had our sin removed, and found that there was merit to spare; we have had our hunger relieved at the feast of sacred love

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Down deep in His innermost soul Christ carried an inexhaustible treasury of refined and heavenly joy.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Being self-owned is a state of mind.

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Blessing and obedience do comfortably and mysteriously coexist.

~ Jen Pollock Michel

In Martin Luther's life and behavior is very courteous and friendly, and there is nothing of the stern stoic or grumpy fellow about him. He can adjust to all occasions. In social gathering he is gay, witty, ever full of joy, always has a bright and happy face, no matter how seriously his adversaries threatening him. One can see that God's strength is within him. – Petrus Mosellanus

~ Andrew Pettegree

Holy desire can be learned. All prayer is part work and part rest.

~ Jen Pollock Michel

Kingdom is a signpost to the holy.

~ Jen Pollock Michel

Our small group is committed to getting the biblical text under our skin.

~ Jen Pollock Michel

After her initial conversion as a teenager, the author writes, I was sent back into a world that no longer looked familiar to me. I had to relearn how to do everything.

~ Jen Pollock Michel

Just do the right thing for the next 15 minutes. And Dugger's guideline for dealing with infidelity and transition one step at a time.

~ Counting On

I didn't know how faith felt when it grew incrementally.

~ Jen Pollock Michel

God is the I AM that I AM not the I AM that we wish.

~ Jen Pollock Michel

Struggle is a prerequisite to surrender.

~ Jen Pollock Michel

According to Aquinas, effort may not be the best measure of our virtue.

~ Jen Pollock Michel

Like many men who experience fatherhood relatively late in life, Martin Luther was a devoted parent. Luther wrote his children letters of touching intensity, patiently converting the joys of the Christian life into a language of storytelling fit for the very young. A home with children brought out the best in Luther in a way that theological disputation patently did not.

~ Andrew Pettegree

I experienced the Church to be this refuge within and beyond myself.

~ James Finley

He was the perfect soldier: he went where you sent him, and stayed where you put him, and had no idea of his own to keep him from doing exactly what you told him.

~ Dashiell Hammett

Images of the Holy easily become holy images -- sacrosanct. My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself. He is the great iconoclast. Could we not almost say that this shattering is one of the marks His presence? The Incarnation is the supreme example, it leads all previous idea of the Messiah in ruins.

~ C.s. Lewis

I had rather have God for my banker than all the Rothschilds.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The author cites researcher David Howard's idea of post-traumatic growth. Howard contends that some individuals faced with a traumatic event actually develop new strength.

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Humility is the earmark of God's genuine servant.

~ Beth Moore

We need heroes who'll inspire us so that maybe next time we'll dig a little deeper and find our best self.

~ Madam Secretary

So highly revered was commingle, that the Jews called him the beauty of the Law.

~ Beth Moore

Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: Learn from socialism, but don't join it.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Someone suddenly had direct, unabashed access to my heart.

~ Beth Moore

Dost thou want another eye beside that of Him who sees every secret thing?

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

He believed interim reforms were necessary in order to fix the worker for his destiny.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Try to resist copying a blueprint from another person's ministry.

~ Beth Moore

Even though Paul knew farewells were inevitable, he still formed deep relationships.

~ Beth Moore

Salvation is a gift. Godliness is the pursuit.

~ Beth Moore

Almightiness and wisdom combined will make no failures.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The affair made men feel larger than life.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out air-quality. He knew it already. It was I who did. In this trial He makes us occupy the dock, the witness box, and the day all at once. He always knew that my temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize that fact was to knock it down.

~ C.s. Lewis

Obedience appears to me more and more the whole business of life, the only road to love and peace.

~ Philip Zaleski

Fidelity in marriage requires self-will and self-denial.

~ Philip Zaleski

Shame and suffering, as St. Bernard says, are the two ladder-uprights which are set up to heaven, and between those two uprights are the rungs of all virtues fixed, by which one climbs to the joy of heaven… In these two things, in which is all penance, rejoice and be glad, for in return for these, twofold blisses are prepared: in return for shame honour; in return for suffering, delight and rest without end.

~ Philip Zaleski

A Christian's duty, Lewis believed, is not simply to tolerate X but to make life with X an occasion to work on one's own character flaws.

~ Philip Zaleski

It's not easy being a missionary, even with the key to the cosmos in your hand.

~ Philip Zaleski

The teacher-student relationship evaporated, replaced by a rich and lively exchange of equals.

~ Philip Zaleski

He would henceforth worship and defend the very reason for Joy, the Almighty Maker of Joy.

~ Philip Zaleski