Discipleship Quotes

Jesus, Willard says, “does not call us to do what he did, but to be as he was, permeated with love. Then the doing of what he did and said becomes the natural expression of who we are in him.

~ Dallas Willard

Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.

~ Richard Rohr

The Bible Belt is collapsing. The world of nominal, cultural Christianity that took the American dream and added Jesus to it in order to say, 'you can have everything you ever wanted and Heaven too,' is soon to be gone. Good riddance.

~ Russell D. Moore

You cannot force people to walk with God. You cannot force them to repent. All you can do is live with integrity and invite them to do so as well. Take things a step at a time. Give them consequences when they refuse to deal with serious issues, and pray. Pray like the dickens. Pray every step of the way.

~ John Eldredge

Evangelism cant be our focus! We must not stop sharing the good news, but here’s the deal, here’s the wonderful thing, it gets done along the way as you do discipleship. Great commission is just about going to disciple the nations and you know what happens... as you disciple them evangelism takes place, because it’s done in the context of discipleship.Here’s the issue: We have to reframe evangelism within the context of discipleship

~ Alan Hirsch

God's word tells us that righteousness is a gift; it cannot be earned. But godliness is not a gift. We must pay a price to touch godliness through a daily decision to die to self and embrace the cross. God calls us to learn godliness in the classroom of life among people as we sit on airplanes and buses, walk among our neighbors and labor at our factories or desks.

~ K.p. Yohannan

Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.

~ T.h. White

Let us live not only to serve God ourselves, let us live to help our children and their children live for God.

~ Dillon Burroughs

Religious leaders who continue mechanically to expound the Scriptures without regard to the current religious situation are no better than the scribes and lawyers of Jesus’ day who faithfully parroted the Law without the remotest notion of what was going on around them spiritually,” wrote Tozer. “They fed the same diet to all and seemed wholly unaware that there was such a thing as meat in due season.

~ A.w. Tozer

As frustrating as the battle for purity must be, I suppose it's easier if you've got company.

~ Kevin Roose

God's way leads always into trial, so far as sight and sense are concerned. Nature always will be tried in God's ways.

~ Answers To Prayer

The years have simply reconciled us to the fact that we are all here for the transformation.

~ John Eldredge

Kings can only use their best tools.

~ T.h. White

I do not politicize Christianity nor my discipleship as Jesus did not politicize either His divinity nor his humanity.

~ R. Alan Woods

The Must be worthless by our estimation or keep us enslaved by an intemperate love of it.

~ John Calvin

In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.

~ Nancy Pearcey

To love with expectations is, in the end, an oppressive, driven thing, and people know it when they receive it.

~ Mark Galli

So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

...there is still a need for those of us nestled deep within the Christian bubble to look beyond the status quo and critically assess the degree to which we are really living biblically.

~ Francis Chan

If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed.... In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal.

~ George Whitefield

It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus, to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.

~ Oswald Chambers

If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If we are cut loose from the anchor of God's Word, we will not be free. We will be slaves of personal passions and popular trends.

~ John Piper

The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God’s Word.

~ Oswald Chambers

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature into an understanding of God’s will more quickly than others because they obey more readily; they more readily sacrifice the life of nature to the will of God.

~ Oswald Chambers

God is not preparing you for anything, obedience is its own end in the purpose of God, be faithful to Him.

~ Oswald Chambers

The figure of the crucified invalidates all thought which takes success for its standard.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

You can either be god of certain areas of your life, or let Me be God of your whole life.

~ The Skit Guys

My life is too short, and God’s work is too great for me to think of making a home for myself in this world.

~ George Eliot

The test of mountain-top experiences, of mysticism, of visions of God and of solitariness is when you are “in the soup” of actual circumstances.

~ Oswald Chambers

The call of God is a call according to the nature of God; where we go in obedience to that call depends entirely on the providential circumstances which God engineers, and is not of any moment. The danger is to fit the call of God into the idea of our own discernment and say, “God called me there.” If we say so and stick to it, then it is good-bye to the development of the life of God in us.

~ Oswald Chambers

Giving up everything must mean giving over everything to kingdom purposes, surrendering everything to further the one central cause, loosening our grip on everything. For some of us, this may mean ridding ourselves of most of our possessions. But for all of us it should mean dedicating everything we retain to further the kingdom. (For true disciples, however, it cannot mean hoarding or using kingdom assets self-indulgently.)

~ Randy Alcorn

The one single use of things which we call our own is that they might be his who hath need of them.

~ Thomas Hughes

Don't get me wrong, I like NASCAR and shopping at Nordstrom's, but discipleship is intrinsic as a lifestyle.~R. Alan Woods [2013]

~ R. Alan Woods

There are no shortcuts to maturity in discipleship; it was, is, and always will be learned over time and under pressure walking in union with Christ.~R. Alan Woods [2013]

~ R. Alan Woods

[God says] Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend - it must transcend all comprehension. Plunge into the deep waters beyond your own comprehension, and I will help you to comprehend even as I do. Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge. My comprehension transcends yours.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The cross where Jesus died became also the cross where His apostle died. The loss, the rejection, the shame, belong both to Christ and to all who in very truth are His. the cross that saves them also slays them, and anything short of this is a pseudo-faith and not true faith at all.

~ A.w. Tozer

Individually the disciple and friend of Jesus who has learned to work shoulder to shoulder with his or her Lord stands in this world as a point of contact between heaven and earth, a kind of Jacob’s ladder by which the angels of God may ascend from and descend into human life. Thus the disciple stands as an envoy or a receiver by which the kingdom of God is conveyed into every quarter of human affairs.

~ Dallas Willard

Let not him who accepts light in an instant despise him who gropes months in shadows.

~ Elisabeth Elliot

Any religious person who says he does not really need human friends because God is his Friend is calling God a liar because He's the One Who says we also need human friends.

~ Mark Driscoll