Discipleship Quotes

Almost anything at all can be transmuted into a labyrinth.

~ Harold Bloom

Lewis spoke for almost every member when he said, There is no sound I like better than adult male laughter.

~ Philip Zaleski

A writer at the time said, Lincoln means to sink the man in the public officer.

~ Harold Holzer

Pandering candidates often promise that they can make the pain go away.

~ Gail Collins

A faithful dependent, I overlook his folly.

~ Charles Dickens

Christ loved the sons of men before there were sons of men, and me before there was me. If he was going to get tired of me, he would have done so before now.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It is impossible to read this opening paragraph without an involuntary feeling of religious awe, it breathed the very savor of Gospel antiquity. The sincerity of the author heightens his power of language.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

A philosophy that cannot be lived is no philosophy at all.

~ Philip Zaleski

God trains His soldiers, not in tents of ease and luxury, but by turning them out and using them to forced marches and hard service. He makes them ford through streams, and swim through rivers, and climb mountains, and walk many a long mile with heavy knapsacks of sorrow on their backs.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

She had responded to the loss of her husband, to poverty, to disease, and to family cruelty with boldness and ingenuity, by opening herself to others, especially to her children and her Church, pouring into these precious vessels her knowledge, hope, and devotion.

~ Philip Zaleski

This is one of the difficulties and pleasures of studying the Inklings; Christians all, they offer, along with the expected 20th-century psychological explanations for behavior, unexpected spiritual ones.

~ Philip Zaleski

The Inklings were comrades who have been touched by war, who view life through the lens of war, yet who look for hope and found it, in fellowship, where so many other modern writers and intellectuals saw only broken narratives, disfigurement, and despair.

~ Philip Zaleski

Capital is necessary to the cultivation of esthetic value.

~ Harold Bloom

A Christian atmosphere is no protection against preening egos.

~ Philip Zaleski

Topanga: Do I need to know the middle of the story?Corey: Do you want to be proud of her?Topanga: Yes.Corey: Then, no.

~ Girl Meets World

If somebody in your life doesn't think you are a fanatic, you are probably backslidden.

~ David Mcgee

There is a wide distinction between confessing sin as a culprit, and confessing sin as a child. The Father's bosom is the place for penitent confessions.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I had rather mistrust my own capacity than God's justice.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

Christianity tells a big story. It allows us to see our own story in a new way.

~ Alister E. Mcgrath

Increasingly we confused the pursuit of happiness with the pursuit of pleasure.

~ Rick Perlstein

It was too late for he and his father to have an adventure, and NOTHING seemed to have any color anymore.

~ Robert Kurson

What we are taught to seek or shun in prayer, we should equally pursue or avoid in action. Very earnestly, therefore, should we avoid temptation, seeking to walk so guardedly in the path of obedience, that we may never tempt the devil to tempt us.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

People HAVE used me. But it don't matter I don't let it change me. – Mohammed Ali

~ Davis Miller

The obedience which God's children yield to Him must be loving obedience. Do not go about the service of God as slaves to their taskmaster's toil, but run in the way of His commands because it is your Father's way.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Will therapy make you feel any better? Not if it's working.

~ Code Black

Focusing on effective leadership without focusing on a willingness to follow is like studying clapping by studying only the left hand.

~ Jonathan Haidt

God's Fatherly prerogative, is a kingly attribute so sweetly veiled in love, that the King's crown is forgotten in the King's face, and His sceptre becomes, not a rod of iron, but a silver sceptre of mercy—the sceptre indeed seems to be forgotten in the tender hand of Him who wields it.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Children are angels in exile, so close to God. They haven't had time to separate from Him.Ali

~ Davis Miller

The purpose of prayer is not for the disciple to give information to God. The purpose of prayer is intimacy with God.

~ David Platt

Making disciples of Jesus is the overflow of the delight in being disciples of Jesus.

~ David Platt

The advantage which disciplined soldiers have over undisciplined hordes follows cheaply from the confidence which each man feels in his comrades. Charles Darwin

~ Jonathan Haidt

A servile spirit you have nothing to do with: you are not a slave, but a child; and now, inasmuch as you are a beloved child, you are bound to obey your Father's faintest wish, the least intimation of His will.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

As you call people to submit to the Person of Christ, you can trust the Spirit of Christ to lead them to salvation.

~ David Platt

Carnal love is the love of table, not of the host.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It is one thing to know what is to come. It is another thing to confront it.

~ Geraldine Brooks

She would know a good thing to do without thinking about it.

~ A.a. Milne

I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.

~ E.m. Forster

Winnie the Pooh finds comfort in counting his pots of honey, and Rabbit finds comfort in knowing where his relations are – even if he doesn't need them at the moment.

~ A.a. Milne

I love the quaint saying of a dying man, who exclaimed, I have no fear of going home; I have sent all before me; God's finger is on the latch of my door, and I am ready for Him to enter.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

He gave himself fully to the penitent life, fasting, praying, confessing his wickedness and execrating himself in public. He became a better man in the small matters of his days, an even better, wiser king in the great matters of state.

~ Geraldine Brooks