Discipleship Quotes

When we get to Heaven, we can try a monarchy, perhaps. John Hay

~ John Taliaferro

When you cannot use your sword you may take to the weapon of all-prayer. Your powder may be damp, your bow-string may be relaxed, but the weapon of all-prayer need never be out of order.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I should not mistake her calm probing for the absence of anger.

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

Are you following Christ's ambitions for your life or expecting Him to help you reach yours?

~ Stephen Davey

Desire for and delight in God's Word are inseparable.

~ John Piper

Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them or what we are here for.

~ David Brooks

My job is not to get between YOU and God. My job is to put your hand IN God's hand.

~ David Mcgee

The person who asks a lot of questions has room for their faith to grow.

~ David Mcgee

The seed of acceptable devotion must come from heaven's storehouse. Only the prayer which comes from God can go to God.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

That's the whole point of being 20. You could be a lot of things. I am much older than you are. I AM things.

~ Frasier

Why do we calculate our forces, and consult with flesh and blood to our grievous wounding? Jehovah has power enough without borrowing from our puny arm.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The Church, like her head, has a glory, but it is concealed from carnal eyes, for the time of her breaking forth in all her splendour is not yet come.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Salvation is the creation of new desires, not just new goodies.

~ John Piper

Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.

~ C.s. Lewis

Is God giving you victory this day, if not this whole day, how about this very minute?

~ Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

A book isn't worth reading if it's not worth discussing.

~ Rick Holland

The insights given by a great professor are a privilege to receive. To be a teacher, by contrast, calls for more ingenuity and patience; it is the canny art of coaxing insights out of the students themselves.

~ Caitlin Keiper

The narrator refers to a character as an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them.

~ Pearl S. Buck

The author describes the critic within us as adults as the selves who live too much in their heads rather than their bodies, who are burdened with too much knowledge about how the world works rather than excited about how it could work or should, who are afraid of being judged and not being loved. Most adults do not live in a world of forgiveness and unconditional love, unless, that is, they have small children.

~ Jennifer Senior

Make wisdom human to the adolescent mind.

~ Will Durant

A family that never embraces life's risks never really lives.

~ Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

The more God-centered our worship practices, the more mercy-centered our life.

~ Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

it’s helpful to focus your child’s attention on the present moment by deciding together on one thing you may particularly look for.

~ Linda Lantieri

The author sees Luke's loyalty to the apostle Paul depicted architecturally in the great church at Rome known as St. Paul Outside the Walls. There, a statue of Luke holding a writing stylus commemorates not only his work as a Gospel author but his faithfulness to Paul.

~ Bryan Litfin

Your children are going through life with their eyes closed, so YOU'RE the one who has to steer.

~ Jennifer Senior

Explaining a professor's emphasis on teaching over research: She traded clinical questions with determinable answers for perennial questions with inexhaustible answers.

~ Caitlin Keiper

The author describes a previous Bible study with a lot of turnover as not so much together as in each other's midst.

~ John Kasich

He (the Bible study leader) is blessed with a light touch and a firm hand.

~ John Kasich

It is possible to feel angered by the compromises all around us, while remaining apathetic to the compromises inside us.

~ Stephen Davey

A cross centered life is made up of Christ centered days.

~ C.j. Mahaney

We reign over the united kingdom of time and eternity

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Innovators view failure not as a fatal character flaw but as a learning experience.

~ Jason Jennings

pessimists see people as liabilities to manage, as burdens or threats that we must minimize.

~ Arthur C. Brooks

He was so much the humblest one that Wendy was especially gentle with him.

~ J.m. Barrie

In the old days, it had been talent and style and brilliance and now it was more and more productivity.

~ David Halberstam

I want a faith that's so alive, it can be seen. I want a hope that cannot hide, even when I'm weak.

~ Building 429

Williams had a very shrewd sense of how much heat the organism could take at any given time

~ David Halberstam

It is ill to offer God one duty stained with the blood of another.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

He was perceived to be intellectually promiscuous, a little too eager to please all groups.

~ David Halberstam

Even in a hostile press conference with hostile questions there was drama, and he could benefit from the drama and the hostility. He mastered the greatest art of television, appearing to be spontaneous without in fact being spontaneous.

~ David Halberstam