Discipleship Quotes

Lincoln began to emerge from his funk by helping a coworker who looked up to him out of a funk of his own.

~ Richard Brookhiser

The author, at the time a Carter speechwriter in the 1980 campaign, showed visible distress at his boss's performance and was warned by a friend in the traveling press, lest he become the story.

~ Chris Matthews

Since we never get everything we want or need from our families, we look for sufficiency in surrogates.

~ Richard Brookhiser

With a more expansive stretch, there’s a better chance that I’ll be around at the precise, random moment when one of my nephews drops his guard and solicits my advice about something private. Or when one of my nieces will need someone other than her parents to tell her that she’s smart and beautiful.

~ Frank Bruni

It doesn't get any easier. You have to stay close to the people you trust so they can put you back together again.

~ Girl Meets World

Be wise and attend to obeying. Let Christ manage the providing.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

She noticed, as an exceptional woman would, that her stepson was exceptional.

~ Richard Brookhiser

The lightheaded and the fashionable are always willing to shed tears for distant underdogs.

~ Richard Brookhiser

John D Rockefeller read his Bible religiously, but kept his ledger in a different drawer.

~ H.w. Brands

What's a man worth without love ? $.89 worth of chemicals. Hawkeye Pierce

~ M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team

Peace between good and evil is an impossibility; the very pretence of it would, in fact, be the triumph of the powers of darkness.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Far from a source of suffering, their adopted faith had been a source of power.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

When God does not answer His children according to the letter, He does so according to the spirit. If thou askest for coarse meal, wilt thou be angered because He gives thee the finest flour? If thou seekest bodily health, shouldst thou complain if instead thereof He makes thy sickness turn to the healing of spiritual maladies?

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

He was cross-examining my subconscious .

~ Ransom Riggs

You can leave the Word of God to wound and kill it need not be yourselves cutting in phrase in manner.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

No heart is as whole as a broken heart, and no faith is as solid as a wounded faith. Elie Wiesel

~ John Ortberg

Better abolish pulpits then to appoint men who have no experiential knowledge of what they teach.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The minister is the parish clock. Many people take their time from him.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Intersections are crash magnets.

~ Tom Vanderbilt

It is not a brave thing to trust God. To true believers, it is a sweet necessity.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It is a pity that we cannot persuade all ministers to be men, for it is hard to see how other was they can be truly men of God.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Dream not that worldlings will admire you, or that the more holy and the more Christ-like you are, the more peaceably people will act towards you. They prized not the polished gem, how should they value the jewel in the rough?

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

That which man doth, unaided by divine strength, God can never own. The mere fruits of the earth He casteth away

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

One Cardinal entered his cathedral for the first time at his funeral.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Let our liberty be practically exhibited by serving the Lord with gratitude and delight.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Leviathan laughs at the javelin, but he trembles at prayer. Sword and spear need furbishing, but prayer never rusts, and when we think it most blunt it cuts the best. Prayer is an open door which none can shut. Devils may surround you on all sides, but the way upward is always open.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Mentors have a way of seeing more of our faults that we would like. It's the only way we grow.

~ George Lucas

The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

~ Joseph Campbell

Tomorrow's freedom is today's surrender.

~ Sons And Daughters

Mythology is to relate found truth to the living of a life.

~ Joseph Campbell

To give to others is but sowing seed for ourselves.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Backward we are naturally to all good things, and it is a lesson of grace to learn to go forward in the ways of God.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The imitation of Christ is the joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.

~ Joseph Campbell

Don't make peace with the sin in your life.

~ John Piper

The further you go, the more you're going to need the people you started with.

~ Code Black

We entertain God's Truth not as a guest but as master of the house.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

In the earliest days of World War II when London was undergoing the blitz but the United States had not yet been drawn into the hostilities, the US ambassador walked the streets during the hottest of the bombing and ask people at every level of British society what he could do to help. What a picture of our role as ambassadors of Christ's coming Kingdom!

~ Lynne Olson

It was the responsibility of a senior fireman to teach as well as to do.

~ David Halberstam

A student is engaging, attentive, notes details, and shows effort in learning.

~ Sandra M. Michelle

Spend some personal time with Jesus and he will reveal himself to you on a deeper level.

~ Sandra M. Michelle