Top 54 Christian Discipleship Quotes
#1. Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth! Authentic Christian discipleship is marked by a sense of wonder. We stand before the God we know and love as a friend, the vastness of his creation, and the beauty of our Christian faith.
Pope Benedict XVI
#2. Joy is not a requirement of Christian discipleship, it is a consequence. It is not what we have to acquire in order to experience life in Christ; it is what comes to us when we are walking in the way of faith and obedience.
Eugene H. Peterson
#3. At every step of our Christian development and in every sphere of our Christian discipleship, pride is the greatest enemy and humility our greatest friend.
John Stott
#4. Nothing is more important for mature Christian discipleship than a fresh, clear, true vision of the authentic Jesus.
John R.W. Stott
#5. The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.
Billy Graham
#6. 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.
Billy Graham
#7. Sing these songs, and they will renew you from head to toe, from heart to mind. Pray these poems, and they will sustain you on the long, hard but exhilarating road of Christian discipleship.
N. T. Wright
#8. Evolution works through this principle: the survival of the fittest. One of the essential elements of Christian discipleship demands that we work for this principle: the survival of the weakest and the gentlest.
Ronald Rolheiser
#9. Live Like a Narnian: Christian Discipleship in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles
N.D. Wilson
#10. Christian discipleship does not involve the abandonment of any innocent enjoyment. Any diversion or amusement which we can use so as to receive pleasure and enjoyment to ourselves, and do no harm to others, we are perfectly free to use ...
Washington Gladden
#11. 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
#12. After the original rapture of conversion had settled in, (Bob) Dylan backed away from his obviously Christian lyrics and returned to his more metaphorical use of language.
Ron Jacobs
#13. Sometimes the right thing to do will cost us our greatest sacrifices, but the rewards will always outweigh our losses
Robin M. Bertram
#14. Your job is to abide in my pasture
Eating sweet grass and drinking pure water,
And sharing both with others -
That is a lamb's business.
Jessica Coupe
#15. We need to shed our unearthly and nonsocial and idealistic and romantic and uber-spiritual visions of kingdom and get back to what Jesus meant. By kingdom, Jesus means: God's Dream Society on earth, spreading out from the land of Israel to encompass the whole world.
Scot McKnight
#16. Christianity is a journey not a destination
John Spencer
#17. We can actually live out the trials and temptations of the day before they come. We can in prayer deal with all our unrighteous aspirations, selfishness, perverse inclinations, impatience, anger, procrastination. This is a form of spiritual creation.
Stephen Covey
#18. It is possible to feel angered by the compromises all around us, while remaining apathetic to the compromises inside us.
Stephen Davey
#19. Get evangelical Christian made them receptive to the possibility of redemption in the here and now.
George F. Will
#20. In our faith we follow in someone's steps. In our faith we leave footprints to guide others. It's the principle of discipleship
Max Lucado
#21. 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
#22. We've taken the lifeblood out of Christianity and put Kool-Aid in its place so that it tastes better to the crowds, and the consequences are catastrophic. ~Follow Me, pg. 7
David Platt
#23. It is the doom of the Christian church to be always distracted with controversy. John Quincy Adams
Paul C. Nagel
#24. The Christian life does not just evolve. It also requires specific decisions and public commitments to deepen our faith and obedience.
Mark Galli
#25. Jesus has to become real to us. We need to court him and get to know him better. Go on some dates with the Lord.
Sandra M. Michelle
#26. 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
#27. A Christian's duty, Lewis believed, is not simply to tolerate "X" but to make life with "X" an occasion to work on one's own character flaws.
Philip Zaleski
#28. Christian spirituality combines a sense of the awe and majesty of God with a sense of His intimate presence.
N. T. Wright
#29. Zero preparation gives zero results. 0x0= 0
Jonah Books
#30. Your footsteps will have more to say about your spiritual life than knowledge attained.
Ricky Maye
#31. We have taken the holistic message preached in the Old Testament and New Testaments and reduced our message to the entry point into the Kingdom.
Landa Cope
#32. The author offers Paul Tripp's analogy that most of the strategies for growth in the Christian life amounts to stapling live roses on a dead bush.
J.D. Greear
#33. Run your race. It's the only one that will count in eternity.
Robin M. Bertram
#34. Let us simplify our lives a little, let us make the changes necessary to focus on the simple, humble path of Christian
discipleship.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#35. The heart of a Christian, who believes and feels, cannot pass the hardships and deprivations of the poor without helping them.
Louis Guanella
#36. Discipleship and spiritual formation are less about erecting an edifice of knowledge than they are a matter of developing a Christian know-how that intuitively understands the world in light of the Gospel.
James K.A. Smith
#38. [Mary] says her memories
Will help those of us
Newly come to our Lord's mercy,
To live in His light.
Jessica Coupe
#39. A healthy Christian life cannot be stitched together from a series of disjointed mountain-top experiences. We need a Christian spirituality that endures the shadowy, low-lying valleys and the rocky slopes in between all those glorious summits.
Andrew Byers
#40. 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
#41. 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.
Colin S. Smith
#42. A Christian atmosphere is no protection against preening egos.
Philip Zaleski
#43. Discipleship is a daily discipline; we follow Jesus a step at a time, a day at a time
Warren W. Wiersbe
#44. It is no accident that the words discipline and disciple resemble each other in the English language. The most common word in the Gospels for a Christian is disciple.
Billy Graham
#45. In the time of to Augustine, the conversation in the West mostly had been a Christian reaction to outside ideas. After Augustine, the Great Conversation would be about his ideas for centuries.
John Mark Reynolds
#46. The road that leads to heaven is risky, lonely, and costly in this world, and few are willing to pay the price. Following Jesus involves losing your life-and finding new life in him. Follow Me, pg. 11
David Platt
#47. Are you following Christ's ambitions for your life or expecting Him to help you reach yours?
Stephen Davey
#48. A Christian understanding of the world sees a child's character not as genetically determined but as shaped to a significant degree by parental discipleship and discipline.
Russell D. Moore
#50. Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.
Oswald Chambers
#51. Followers of Jesus do well to spend more time engaging him than explaining him.
Ron Brackin
#52. Discipleship for resident aliens, or exiles, is different from discipleship in a culture in which the Christian faith is assumed and the goal is to draw people back into something the culture already tells them they should do.
Timothy Keller
#53. Chaucer, like Homer, writes about a journey, but as a Christian he has a different goal. Homer wanted to go home, but Chaucer's pilgrims want a place of man's true home: paradise
John Mark Reynolds
#54. The Christian life doesn't work because we are such great followers. It works because Christ is such a great Leader.
David McGee
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