Discipleship Quotes

Sometimes a citizenry should not simply be good. You have to leave space for dissent, real dissent.

~ Sherry Turkle

Rapture is costly, it usually means you are overlooking consequences.

~ Sherry Turkle

Charity fits the economy of scarcity, because it supports the blasphemous myth that the rich are rich because they deserve to be, and their riches are theirs to deal with as they please. With such charity, we are not worthy to tell the story of manna in the wilderness, to pretend to eat together at the Lord’s Supper, or claim the Year of Jubilee as our own.

~ Michael Rhodes

One of the privileges of childhood is that some of the world is mediated by adults.

~ Sherry Turkle

Realtechnik is skeptical about linear progress. It encourages humility, a state of mind in which we are most open to facing problems and reconsidering decisions. It helps us acknowledge costs and recognize the things we hold inviolate.

~ Sherry Turkle

The author says crises tend to reveal the connectivity of systems that had previously been study only in isolation.

~ Andrew Zolli

the heart of a prophet is not his own to bestow.

~ Geraldine Brooks

My prophetic task would be twofold: to stand up to him, and to stand by him. To awaken his conscience, and to salve the pain this would cause him.

~ Erik Larson

He did wrong. He has acknowledged it before the people. He repents it. How many kings have the humility to do that?

~ Geraldine Brooks

You don't need a prophet to tell you to eat.

~ Geraldine Brooks

It's remarkable how very many things there are that a king may not do.

~ Geraldine Brooks

The church is the primary arena in which we learn that glory does not consist in what we do for God but in what God does for us.

~ Eugene H. Peterson

Relationships we complain about nevertheless keep us connected to life.

~ Sherry Turkle

God never loses sight of the treasure which He has placed in our earthen vessels.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Action without prayer thins out into something very exterior. A prayerless life can result in effective action and accomplish magnificent things, but if there is no developed interiority, the action never enters into the depth and intimacy of relationships.

~ Eugene H. Peterson

At the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of Heaven fills those who are quitting the light of Earth.

~ Victor Hugo

When people turn other people into selfobjects, they are trying to turn a person into a kind of spare part.

~ Sherry Turkle

Prayer is a way of language practiced in the presence of God in which we become more than ourselves while remaining ourselves.

~ Eugene H. Peterson

Spontaneities offer one kind of pleasure and taste of sanctity, repetitions another equally pleasurable and holy.

~ Eugene H. Peterson

Having a big family is costly and invasive. As we realize how big our family is in Christ, how our family obligations transcend our artificial boundaries, there ought to be a weightiness to our response to our brothers and sisters in need.

~ Mike Dsane

Challenge quandary thinking, either/or thinking come by moving from the abstract to the concrete. What can we do with the choice actually in front of us?

~ Sherry Turkle

The usefulness of a man or woman of God relies on the ability to remain distinct.

~ Kevin Thoman

He who grows not in the knowledge of Jesus, refuses to be blessed.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Unlike mere action, prayer is not subject to immediate evaluation or verification. If we are addicted to results we will quickly lose interest in prayer.

~ Eugene H. Peterson

Real life applications get tricky when we think about them.

~ Kevin Deyoung

Battling busyness is a community response.

~ Kevin Deyoung

God is a good paymaster, He pays His servants while at work as well as when they have done it

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Amazing tributaries feeding where the rivers will never flow....

~ Jars Of Clay

As we grow into maturity in Christ our distinctiveness is accentuated, not blunted. General directions, useful as they are, don't take into account the details that face us as holiness takes root in the particular social and personal place we are planted.

~ Eugene H. Peterson

He'd made a name for himself out there in the world beyond not just in spite of the distinctly unfashionable persona he presented, but, perhaps, BECAUSE of it.

~ Chris Matthews

When you take your place as the authority figure in your home, your child will feel more safe in the real world, not the screen world.

~ Gary Chapman

Preaching reveals God in action here and now -- for ME.

~ Eugene H. Peterson

There is nothing more common than for people who want to talk about God to lose interest in the people they are talking to.

~ Eugene H. Peterson

We need alert listeners to give dignity to those stretches in our lives when we are not aware of participating in anything we think might be embraced by the kingdom of God.

~ Eugene H. Peterson

We do not become less needy, less dependent when we pray; we become more needy, more dependent, which is to say, more human.

~ Eugene H. Peterson

It is the doom of the Christian church to be always distracted with controversy. John Quincy Adams

~ Paul C. Nagel

It wasn't work. I played myself.

~ Dick Van Dyke

The author attributes part of the Carter-Reagan divide to their respective attitudes toward the city from which they governed. Carter was deeply suspicious of its coziness. Reagan intended to enjoy his temporary home even while delivering it from its reigning ideology.

~ Chris Matthews

Peace is the opposite of dreaming. It’s built slowly and surely through brutal compromises and tiny victories that you don’t even see. It’s a messy business, bringing peace into the world.

~ Bono

Push the needle into some middle range of guarded optimism.

~ Ron Suskind