Bible Discipleship Quotes

#1. Any serious reading of the Bible means personal involvement in it, not symbol mental agreement with abstract propositions. And involvement is dangerous, because it leaves one open to unforeseen conclusions. - Author: Megan McKenna

#2. He (the Bible study leader) is blessed with a light touch and a firm hand. - Author: John Kasich

#3. The Bible strongly encourages us to get involved in discipleship. - Author: Jim George

#4. The Bible tells us that the small groups in New Testament times pursued the biblical purposes of fellowship, discipleship, ministry, evangelism, and worship. - Author: Steve Gladen

#5. Our minds must be set always to seek the will of the Lord. Following the progressive discipline revealed through the Bible will result in a walk of obedience to God. - Author: Billy Graham

#6. I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup. - Author: Spalding Gray

#7. Learning is the heart of discipleship. You can't just take up your cross daily. You need to take up the Bible every day. - Author: Mark Batterson

#8. Exercise and proper eating habits are very important, since the Bible says that the body is God's holy temple, but I don't think that superbodies equate with committed Christian discipleship. Some of the greatest saints I've known have been those with physical infirmities. - Author: Billy Graham

#9. In New Orleans, no matter how much money you had in the bank, you looked on poverty every day. - Author: Dan Baum

#10. Part of the challenge of innovation is coming up with the problem to solve, not just its solution. - Author: Scott Berkun

#11. I found myself speaking more slowly (in an attempt to obey the Bible in speech), as if I was speaking French instead of English. - Author: A. J. Jacobs

#12. We put up a kind of spiritual firewall and make a conscious effort to shut out the headlines, because our (Bible) discussions are meant to be timeless. - Author: John Kasich

#13. The author describes a previous Bible study with a lot of turnover as "not so much together as in each other's midst. - Author: John Kasich

#14. Wright's building made it socially and culturally acceptable for an architect to design a highly expressive, intensely personal museum. In this sense almost every museum of our time is a child of the Guggenheim. - Author: Paul Goldberger

#15. To many, The Bible is a form of verbal wallpaper, pleasant enough in the background, but he stop thinking about it after you have lived in the house for a few weeks. - Author: N. T. Wright

#16. If I must die, then I will die for the ones I love, for my compassion will be passed onto them and they will have the ability to do the same. That's what makes love so powerful. - Author: Serena Winter

#17. You know your Bible too well and life too little. - Author: Richard Llewellyn

#18. Never question the size of Ice Cube's balls! - Author: Ice Cube

#19. You'd think God would come right out and tell us what to do in the Bible, but He doesn't. He mostly tells stories, and He rarely stops the story to say what the point is. He just lets the characters and conflict hang in the air like smoke. - Author: Donald Miller

#20. History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize their ignorance as a political or religious dogma - Author: Aldous Huxley

#21. John D Rockefeller read his Bible religiously, but kept his ledger in a different drawer. - Author: H.W. Brands

#22. Without the new birth, all the doctrinal and liturgical work in the world is just the reorganization of dead materials, instead of what it is described in the Bible as being, which is the organization and discipleship of living materials. - Author: Douglas Wilson

#23. God's Word is the living seed that brings new birth. It is the milk that nurtures the new life of a young Christian and the meat that builds the muscle of a mature believer. - Author: Colin S. Smith

#24. The Bible provocatively evokes desire. - Author: Jen Pollock Michel

#25. 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. - Author: Russell D. Moore

#26. The way to transmute the pain of life is to reveal the wounded side of things, evil, even, and then place the wound inside of sacred space. The Bible is about naming, facing, and then forgiving the wounds of history. - Author: Richard Rohr

#27. We learn the language of prayer by immersing ourselves in the language that God uses to reveal Himself to us. - Author: Eugene H. Peterson

#28. I cannot read God's mind, however I can read God's Word. - Author: R.C. Sproul

#29. Before I was an actor I was an apprentice jockey, and now I'm out there racing against boys, sort of the spokesperson for people over 50 that they can do it. - Author: Davy Jones

#30. A continual diet of the Word satisfies, and it builds an appetite for more. - Author: James MacDonald

#31. Just as at sea those who are carried away from the direction of the harbor bring themselves back on course by a clear sign, on seeing a tall beacon light or some mountain peak coming into view, so Scripture may guide those adrift on the sea of the life back into the harbor of the divine will. - Author: Gregory Of Nyssa

#32. Small groups are the place to push past Bible knowledge and on to life application so that we can see people's lives transform more and more into the image of Christ. - Author: James MacDonald

#33. I knew Knotcher was trying to push my buttons. Unfortunately, he'd pushed the big red one first. - Author: Ernest Cline

#34. It is this personal knowledge that is the basis of discipleship, and it involves more than reading the Bible, memorizing Scripture, and praying. It is intimately walking in communion with the Father through living, loving, and spending time with God. - Author: Robby Gallaty