Discipleship Quotes

The Resurrection is most clearly needed and most clearly revealed in those communities that are constantly seeking to correct and transform the world through the wisdom and power of the Word of God made flesh in their lives and actions in history.

~ Megan Mckenna

Conversion, constant conversion, is the message of the Gospel.

~ Megan Mckenna

No one ever made more trouble than gentle Jesus meek and mild.

~ James Gillis

The farther you get from the actual historical person of Jesus and His time, the more the church knows about Jesus and understand more deeply the truth of the Scriptures. We know more of the truth of Jesus the Risen Lord and His Word because we have been the recipients of more than 2000 years of faith, of life lived in the power of the Spirit and the Word in our midst. The power of of the presence of the Risen Lord is not static, but dynamic, and growing ever stronger as the kingdom of the earth comes more into its fullness in time and place. It is an awesome thought that calls us to responsibility and gratefulness for having been given the gift from those who have gone before us in faith. It is our privilege and inheritance, which we must be sure to pass on to those who come after us, in forms that are ever richer, more expressive and inclusive of others.

~ Megan Mckenna

Someone once said that Stephen Austin didn't like preachers at all. He swore that one preacher could stir up more trouble than a dozen horse thieves. Matthew's Gospel reminds us that it is the role of a disciple of Jesus to stir up trouble by playing an active, resistant role in the struggle of good and evil, by resisting the ways of the world and its power bases – economic, religious, nationalistic, politic, military – which are most often in direct opposition to the ways of the Kingdom of God and the way of discipleship.

~ Megan Mckenna

The Jesus People experience proved to be a staging area for tens of thousands of young Americans who were making up their mind about marriage, schooling, and careers

~ Larry Eskridge

Edwards’s God was glorious, full of beauty, and seemingly uninterested in making people feel insecure. Edwards was a mystic, a man who didn’t simply write or preach about God, he experienced him.

~ Matthew Paul Turner

To be a man, a boy must see a man.

~ J.r. Moehringer

Our nearness to the king in love is nearness to those who love not the king.

~ William Shakespeare

Christian discipleship is a decision to walk in his ways, steadily and firmly, and then finding that the way integrates all our interests, passions, and gifts, our human needs and eternal aspirations. It is the way of life we were created for.

~ Eugene H. Peterson

The sweet spot is where duty and delight converge.

~ Thomas Mann

If we know our original blessing, we can easily handle our original sin. If we rest in a previous dignity, we can bear insults effortlessly. If you really know your name is on some eternal list, you can let go of the irritations on the small lists of time. Ultimate security allows you to suffer small insecurity without tremendous effort. If you are tethered at some center point, it is amazing how far out you can fly and not get lost.

~ Richard Rohr

Deal mildly with his youth; for young hot colts, being rag's, do rage the more.

~ William Shakespeare

There was no keenness in the eyes; they seemed rather to be shedding love than making observations; they had the liquid look which tells that the mind is full of what it has to give out, rather than impressed by external objects.

~ George Eliot

His Majesty has done absolutely nothing but waste his time darling around eating sweets, contributing to the boy's adolescent chubiness, and to the sense of the country's political drift. Rather than being encouraged to govern, the Shah's courtiers preferred to encourage him in his idleness.

~ Charles Emmerson

You can't grasp the wonderful and keep your feet on the ground.

~ The Afters

[Mary] says her memories Will help those of usNewly come to our Lord’s mercy,To live in His light.

~ Jessica Coupé

Your job is to abide in my pastureEating sweet grass and drinking pure water,And sharing both with others—That is a lamb’s business.

~ Jessica Coupé

Maybe you have been looking for peace for no one but yourself.

~ Building 429

Redemption came as a wave of relief, but then it followed with a burden.

~ Building 429

There's a difference, you know, between faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow. The other one will make you sleep.

~ Rich Mullins

Men need men to keep their edges hot and clean, whereas women keep us warm and soft.

~ Richard Rohr

Mine is to chew on the appropriate texts and make them delectable.

~ Gregory Of Nyssa

You know after any truly initiating experience that you are part of a much bigger whole. Life is not about you henceforward, but you are about life.

~ Richard Rohr

You cannot contain evil by shaming it, or making people feel guilty, but only by revealing it toward it is, and then seeing the good as better.

~ Richard Rohr

Our religious institutions are not giving very many men access to credible encounters with the holy or even with their own wholeness. We largely give men mandates, signposts, scaffolding and appealing images that tend to create religious identity and boundaries, but from the outside.

~ Richard Rohr

If you do not acquire good training in detachment, you may attach to all the wrong things.

~ Richard Rohr

When I am not king, then THE Kingdom has its best chance of breaking through.

~ Richard Rohr

It is hard to hear God, but it is even harder not to hear God. The pain one brings upon oneself by living outside of evident reality is a greater and longer-lasting pain than the brief pain of facing it head on.

~ Richard Rohr

Every missed rite of passage leads to a new rigidification of the personality.

~ Richard Rohr

His Kingship, precisely because it is so broad, so total, is doomed to be rejected by anybody who is still into tribalism, or small belonging systems. We don't really like the big Kingdom if it gets in the way of our smaller kingdoms, and it always does.

~ Richard Rohr

There was (and is) nothing palatable about Jesus Christ of Nazareth to those who love the world and have made their home in it.

~ David D. Flowers

Managing games comes second. Managing people comes first.

~ John Feinstein

the decision to stand unapologetically for the gospel has been tantamount to a new conversion. It brings peace, it dissolves fears, it snaps fingers at ridicule.

~ Elton Trueblood

It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying.

~ Ron Suskind

You think you're a role model, and they (protégés)turn around and tell you you're a negative role model.

~ Judith Rodin

I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher. I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me.

~ Watchman Nee

Life is a mess. And theology must be lived out in the midst of that mess.

~ Charles W. Colson

We have to grow into Scripture, like a young boy inheriting his older brother's clothes and flopping around in them, but he gradually builds out and grows up. Perhaps it's a measure of our maturity when parts of Scripture that we found odd or even repellent suddenly come up in a new light. Our sense is overtaken by a sense of the whole thing, wide, multicolored, and unspeakably powerful.

~ N.t. Wright

I must first have the sense of God's possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.

~ Watchman Nee