Discipleship Quotes

Mohr was one of the most talented people on the staff of Time, in print as well as in person—the two are often different.

~ David Halberstam

A missionary deals with all the important people of the community, but he is never really one of them.

~ Henry R. Luce

The world doesn’t judge us by our theology, it judges us by our behavior. The validity of Scripture in the world’s view is determined by how it affects us.

~ John F. Macarthur Jr.

He could tune her, bringing out her better instincts and filtering out her lesser ones.

~ David Halberstam

The faster the motion, the less time to think. Fuselage journalism, Hugh Sidey of Time later called it.

~ David Halberstam

Online life is so delicious because it is socializing with almost no friction.

~ David Brooks

Morning dawns when the grace overcomes nature.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The more the world commits to programs for poverty and education, the greater the gap for those with intellectual disabilities. That’s because money goes where results are quick and quantifiable, which is not likely for people with intellectual disabilities.

~ Lawrence Downes

the sculpting of the brain’s circuitry during this period of brain growth depends to a great degree on what a child experiences day-to-day.

~ Lisa Lantieri

the real tests of life can come a child’s way at any moment

~ Lisa Lantieri

although the stress response was involuntary, the relaxation response required practice.[6]

~ Linda Lantieri

The only way to reduce ugliness in the world is to reduce it in yourself

~ Bayard Rustin

Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.

~ Edith Hamilton

It takes a long time to grow an old friend, so I figure I better get moving.

~ Matt Labash

Not every story started off big enough to notice.

~ Tom Clancy

When an actor reaches down into his emotional well and pulls up a deeply personal response, the audience can sense something special is going on. They may not know exactly what they're seeing, but they recognize it as authentic.

~ Martin Sheen

Never base motivation or fear, entirely.

~ Peter Heather

The line between spontaneity and stupidity can be very thin.

~ Martin Sheen

There is nothing Christ dislikes more than for His people to make a showpiece of Him and not to use Him.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Unlike most politicians who follow their audience, (Robert) Kennedy tried to lead his.

~ Thurston Clarke

The struggle against the weakness in yourself is never a solitary struggle. No person can achieve self-mastery or his or her own.

~ David Brooks

Do your best, and your best will be growing better.

~ Emma Willard

you turn into a shrewd tactician, making a series of cautious semicommitments without really surrendering to some larger purpose. You lose the ability to say a hundred noes for the sake of one overwhelming and fulfilling yes.

~ David Brooks

God never encourages self-reliance.

~ Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

Kids don't always stop to judge or analyze a new experience unless the adults around them react strongly. Otherwise, they just take in the experience and move on to the next one.

~ Martin Sheen

Now, what happens if you eliminate anything from the Bible that offends your sensibility and crosses your will? If you pick and choose what you want to believe and reject the rest, how will you ever have a God who can contradict you? You won't! You'll have ...A God, essentially, of your own making, and not a God with whom you can have a relationship and genuine interaction. Only if your God can say things that outrage you and make you struggle (as in a real friendship or marriage!) will you know that you have gotten hold of a real God and not a figment of your imagination. So an authoritative Bible is not the enemy of a personal relationship with God. It is the precondition for it.

~ Timothy J. Keller

It took him (Washington) more than a year to gain control over his own aggressive instincts.

~ Joseph J. Ellis

It’s easy to give God a list of excuses for not feeling worthy or as capable as someone else, in our service to him. The problem is that God doesn’t call those who are unprepared or incapable. He calls those who have the talent and ability to serve. He has it all planned out for us. Our challenge is to accept his calling and move out in faith believing in his promises of help and support.

~ Diane Goold

True love is generative. It is the only kind that makes more of itself as it goes along.

~ Timothy J. Keller

We are to be generous not just in the results of our work, but also IN our work.

~ Matt Perman

If a church is good at making disciples it will be good at making leaders because in the end, a good spiritual formation plan will lead to an accelerated spiritual multiplication.

~ Gary Rohrmayer

The only way your child will grow out of their dependency into self-sufficient adults is for you to essentially abandon your own independence for 20 years or so.

~ Timothy J. Keller

When religion becomes so involved in a future good over yonder that it forgets the present evils over here it is as dry as dust religion and needs to be condemned.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

The God of the universe--the creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor--loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. And what is our typical response? We go to church, sing songs, and try not to cuss.

~ Francis Chan

It is a wicked sophistry to justify the worldliness of the Church by the cross of Christ.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Tragedy cannot take place around a type. Suffering is the most individualizing thing on earth.

~ Edith Hamilton

On Christ's attitude toward His disciples: If I gave away My big all to get to you, can you give away your little all to follow Me?

~ Timothy J. Keller

wonderful people are made, not born – that the people I admired had achieved an unfakeable inner virtue, built slowly from specific moral and spiritual accomplishments.

~ David Brooks

A question is far more subversive, biblically, than a statement.

~ Os Guinness

Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.

~ Richard J. Foster