Top 100 Disciple Quotes
#2. This is a gathering of Lovers.
In this gathering
there is no high, no low,
no smart, no ignorant,
no special assembly,
no grand discourse,
no proper schooling required.
There is no master,
no disciple.
Rumi
#3. Smartass Disciple: Master, that guy's teaching is somehow annoying me.
Master of Stupidity: Only as long as you stay tuned for pissed-off channel.
Toba Beta
#4. Smartass Disciple: Master, how do I know that I am not dreaming right now ?
Master of Stupidity: You don't. Only those who see you're dreaming can tell it.
Toba Beta
#5. I have many deep thoughts in God, but I take my own measure, lest I perish by boasting ... For I myself, though I am in chains and can comprehend heavenly things, the ranks of the angels and the hierarchy of principalities, things visible and invisible, for all this I am not yet a disciple.
Ignatius Of Antioch
#6. I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.
Antonio Porchia
#7. Smartass Disciple: Master, we should not spend our time to low life like them.
Master of Stupidity: If I don't, then how should I lead men like you to be wiser?
Toba Beta
#8. Unholy soldier, disciple of sin, what kind of mind are you living in?
Ozzy Osbourne
#9. A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.
Aristotle.
#10. I found out the hard way that if we don't disciple people, the culture sure will.
Alan Hirsch
#11. And he has the teacher's fear of being surpassed by the student, the master's dread of having the disciple discredit his work. (Not that I am in any real sense Nemur's student or disciple as Burt is.) I guess Nemur's fear of being revealed as a man walking on stilts among giants is understandable.
Daniel Keyes
#12. Praised be St John, the glorified of God! Lord, grant me the prayers of St John, disciple and friend whom thou lovest, apostle of love. Thy love, forever, eternal, that my faith may become as complete, as flaming and tranquil, as his, and pierce as deep and speak as simply in the spirit.
Eric Milner-White
#13. Smartass Disciple: If there were two masters, which one should I listen to?
Master of Stupidity: Use the ears to the one who looks so stupid, eyes to else.
Toba Beta
#14. When a fully qualified Mahayana disciple relies completely upon a fully qualified Mahayana Spiritual Guide the attainment of enlightenment is easy.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
#15. Irenaeus, very disciple of the apostle John, wrote: "The glory of God is the human being fully alive and the life of the human consists in beholding God" (emphasis added).
Ann Voskamp
#16. A disciple can be forgiven if he does not have great mental ability. He can be forgiven also if he does not display outstanding physical prowess. But no disciple can be excused if he does not have zeal. If his heart is not aflame with a red-hot passion for the Savior, he stands condemned.
William MacDonald
#17. A lifelong disciple of Lord Chesterfield's maxim that a gentleman was free to do anything he pleased as long as he did it with style.
Joseph J. Ellis
#18. Smartass Disciple: Master, if you are so good, can you drive a car with your eyes closed?
Master of Stupidity: Thou shall not break the rules of drive safely.
Thou shall not tempt the police as well.
Toba Beta
#19. Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern which have come under my observation, none appears to me so pure as that of Jesus ... I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus.
Thomas Jefferson
#20. Smartass Disciple: Please teach me about the truth, master.
Master of Stupidity: Hmmm ... tell me about your sexperience!
Toba Beta
#21. The church is not an audience of spectators; we are a fellowship of disciple-makers
David Platt
#22. The first important act of self-denial for 21st-century followers of Jesus may be to say no to being too busy to be a disciple.
Thomas Oord
#23. The desire that comes into a disciple is not one of doing anything for Jesus, but of being a perfect delight to Him. The
Oswald Chambers
#24. If you want to learn the craft of war, ponder over this book. The teacher is as a needle, the disciple is as thread. You must practice constantly.
Miyamoto Musashi
#25. It is one thing being disciplined to plan and it is another thing being a disciple of great work. Be your own disciplinarian.
Israelmore Ayivor
#26. I am a disciple of the philosopher Dionysus, and I would prefer to be even a satyr than a saint.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#27. Being a disciple of Jesus Christ is not an effort of once a week or once a day. It is an effort of once and for all.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#28. It isn't a matter of liking Jesus. Of course I do. It's a matter of following him. This is the decision for which I cannot shift responsibility to others. It is mine to make, and only I can make it. Admirer? Or disciple?
Ken Untener
#29. A true disciple inquires not whether a fact is agreeable to his own reason.His pride has yielded to the divine testimony.
Adoniram Judson
#30. I'm a disciple of the Tao of Peter Parker, obviously,
Jim Butcher
#31. The disposition to give a cup of cold water to a disciple is a far nobler property than the finest intellect. Satan has a fine intellect, but not the image of God.
William Dean Howells
#32. It is biblically, spiritually, and practically impossible to be a disciple of Christ apart from total devotion to a family of Christians.
David Platt
#33. Religion itself is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better.
William Penn
#34. A disciple: I am worried about human suffering all over the world. What is the solution?Spiritual leader: The solution to our miseries lie within central atom of our being, 'I'. Once this central atom transcends to 'WE', human sufferings can be resolved.
Santosh Kalwar
#35. When you are loved well, you want more of it. The only reason I believe anyone would not desire to be a disciple of Christ is because they fail to realize just how well loved they are by him. How could you not want to be with someone who loves you well?
Sandra M. Michelle
#36. How we use our money is the clearest outside indicator of what we really believe ... If someone is a true disciple of Jesus Christ, the evidence will be found in that person's everyday life - including his or her use of money.
Larry Burkett
#37. Even a pandit comes to grief by giving instruction to a foolish disciple, by maintaining a wicked wife, and by excessive familiarity with the miserable.
Chanakya
#38. Just as Dr. King was a disciple of Gandhi and Christ, we must now be Dr. King's disciples.
Dr. King challenged us to work for a greater humanity. I only hope that we are worthy of his challenge.
Cesar Chavez
#39. Loving others in a biblical manner involves your thoughts, words, and actions and is a sign of your being a disciple of Christ. Loving others biblically is dependent on your commitment to the Lord Jesus Christ and is not dependent on people, circumstances, or your feelings.
John C. Broger
#40. Smartass Disciple: Master, where is exactly the edge of this universe ?
Master of Stupidity: Edge is wherever the absence of universal gravity.
Toba Beta
#41. Smartass Disciple: Master, I don't need a fairytale.I need you to tell me the truth.
Master of Stupidity: It is not funny if you just found it. No drama if no lost at first.
Toba Beta
#42. Jesus didn't really die-someone gave him a long drug that made him look like dead, and he revived in the tomb. Answer: Roman soldiers knew how to kill people, and no disciple would have been fooled by a half-drugged, beat-up Jesus into thinking he'd defeated death and inaugurated the kingdom.
N. T. Wright
#43. And Pythagoras is reported to have been a disciple of Sonches the Egyptian arch-prophet; and Plato, of Sechnuphis of Heliopolis; and Eudoxus, of Cnidius of Konuphis, who was also an Egyptian.
[Stromata, 1.15]
Clement Of Alexandria
#44. Indiana was such a devout disciple of Shakti that she had once considered taking her name until her father, Blake Jackson, managed to convince her that a Hindu goddess's name was not appropriate for a tall, voluptuous blond American with the looks of an inflatable doll.
Isabel Allende
#45. Said a disciple, 'I don't trade my love for money.'
Said the Master, 'isn't itas bad - or worse - that you trade it for love?
Anthony De Mello
#46. The purpose of prayer is not for the disciple to give information to God. The purpose of prayer is intimacy with God.
David Platt
#47. There is a vast difference between devotion to a person and devotion to principles or to a cause. Our Lord never proclaimed a cause- He proclaimed personal devotion to Himself. To be a disciple is to be a devoted bondservant motivated by love for the Lord Jesus.
Oswald Chambers
#48. [I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines.
Charles Lindbergh
#49. Smartass Disciple: But, you said that it's the truth??
Master of Stupidity: O Yes. That is yesterday's truth.
Toba Beta
#50. The learned has grieve by instructing foolish disciple surely,
As a wicked wife or with the wretched having familiarity.
[4] 1.4 Chanakya
Munindra Misra
#51. Smartass Disciple: Master, you keep preaching the truth. They don't listen.
Master of Stupidity: Oh that's not bad. That attitude keeps us in the business.
Toba Beta
#52. If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
Francis Chan
#53. When we look at what we have to offer - our skills, gifts, and desires - before asking what is needed of us, we are putting the cart before the horse, or the gifts before the call. The question a disciple must first ask is not, "What am I good at?" but rather, "What is required of me?
Jeff Goins
#54. In the 56 years I have been a disciple of and in union with Jesus Christ and in my opinion, John Wimber was the most authentic, humble, accessible, and anointed 'Christ-like' man I have ever known."
~R. Alan Woods [2013]
R. Alan Woods
#55. ACT9.36 Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did.
Anonymous
#56. I'm out to take the Bible, create disciples who make disciples, disciple cycles ...
LeCrae
#57. But making disciples is far more than a program. It is the mission of our lives. It defines us. A disciple is a disciple maker.
Francis Chan
#59. A disciple was one day recalling how Buddha , Jesus , Mohammed were branded as rebels and heretics by their contemporaries. Said the Master, Nobody can be said to have attained the pinnacle of Truth until a thousand sincere people have denounced him for blasphemy .
Anthony De Mello
#60. Our Lord mentions may be a competitive relationship. I may prefer to belong to my mother, or to my wife, or to myself; then says Jesus, you cannot be My disciple. This does not mean I will not be saved, but it does mean that I cannot be "His.
Oswald Chambers
#61. The church tastes true delight, and the world only samples a counterfeit. Pastors cannot help but pull off the mask of worldly thinking and harmful societal developments as they preach and teach and disciple.
Owen Strachan
#62. We've invented a thousand shades of gray, devising a comfortable Christian existence we can all live with - super awesome, except the Bible doesn't support it. According to Scripture, no real disciple serves God while addicted to the dollar. There
Jen Hatmaker
#63. After he has been following Christ for a long time, the disciple of Jesus will be asked, "Lacked ye anything?" and he will answer "Nothing, Lord." How could he when he knows that despite hunger and nakedness, persecution and danger, the Lord is always at his side?
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#64. There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#65. Smartass Disciple: Master, tell me what is it beyond this universe ?
Master of Stupidity: No 'space' in no 'gravity'. No 'thing' in spaceless.
Toba Beta
#66. A disciple is an asshole looking for a human being to attach itself to.
Robert Anton Wilson
#67. The disciple is not hankering for knowledge; he wants to see, not to know. He wants to be. He is no longer interested in having more knowledge; he wants to have more being.
Rajneesh
#68. Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
Stephen Hawking
#69. It's absolutely absurd to say you are a disciple of Jesus Christ yet not bear the fruit of Jesus Christ.
Paul Washer
#70. I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.
Michael Connelly
#71. This extremely shocking and utterly revolutionary call is the essence of what it means to be a disciple of Jesus: we are not called to simply believe certain points or observe certain practices, but ultimately to cling to the person of Christ as life itself.
David Platt
#72. When we live habitually with the wicked, we become necessarily either their victim or their disciple; when we associate, on the contrary, with virtuous men, we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or, at least, lose every day something of our faults.
Charles Caleb Colton
#73. A disciple, in his reverence for the Master, looked upon him as God incarnate. "Tell me, O Master," he said, "why you have come into this world." "To teach fools like you to stop wasting their time worshiping Masters.
Anthony De Mello
#74. The real guru is the pure intellect within; and the purified, deeply aspiring mind is the disciple.
Chinmayananda Saraswati
#75. Jesus did not send us to declare the gospel only where people are responsive or where our witness is welcome. He did not expect us to be on mission to disciple peoples only where there is no danger or risk involved. He was unequivocal in His mandate to disciple the nations (peoples) - all of them!
Ed Stetzer
#76. Every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for master-ship.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#77. The only option to avoid war is the departure of the number one warmonger in the world US President George W Bush. His policy has brought disaster to the United States. This crazy man should go and also his subject, disciple and follower UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Naji Sabri
#78. If the heart is devoted to the mirage of the world, to the creature instead of the Creator, the disciple is lost ... However urgently Jesus may call us, His call fails to find access to our hearts ... for they have already been given to another.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#79. You are only a disciple because your eyes are closed. The day you open them you will see there is nothing you can learn from me or anyone.
Anthony De Mello
#80. Smartass Disciple: Master, what did you do to earn wisdom ?
Master of Stupidity: Well, I forget. Shit happened, life goes on.
Toba Beta
#81. Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun.
Gail Sheehy
#82. Smartass Disciple: Master, I want to be the better me by forgetting my past.
Master of Stupidity: If you just forget it, how would you measure you're better?
Toba Beta
#83. It will always be true that the wisest course for the disciple is...to abide solely by the Word of God in all simplicity.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#84. Smartass Disciple: Master, what is the secret recipe of your happiness?
Master of Stupidity: If I tell you, there is nobody left to be made fun of.
Toba Beta
#85. May I not safely credit her assertions? Will it not be easy for me to forget her sex, and still consider her as my Friend and my disciple? Surely her love is as pure as She describes. Had it been the offspring of mere licentiousness, would She so long have concealed it in her own bosom?
Matthew Lewis
#86. Mary Magdalene beat her breast and sobbed, The beloved disciple turned to stone, But where the silent Mother stood, there No one glanced and no one would have dared.
Anna Akhmatova
#87. Listen, friends," said the disciple confidently, " [ ... ] I didn't have a friend in the world. Do you know what it's like not to have a friend in the world?"
"It ain't no worsen havinum that would put a knife in your back when you wasn't looking," the older man said, barely parting his lips.
Flannery O'Connor
#88. Smartass Disciple: Master, I believe that the truth will prevail at the end.
Master of Stupidity: No 'the end' for the truth. 'Prevail' is something else.
Toba Beta
#89. Smartass Disciple: Master, why there was no second chance in garden of eden?
Master of Stupidity: Of course. Perhaps, human can only enjoy one-time virginity.
Toba Beta
#90. The Jesus Creed teaches us that a disciple's responsibility is to love God by following Jesus. You only follow someone else when your own lights or sense of direction are not good enough.
Scot McKnight
#91. For chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardour of a lover, the humility of a disciple.
H. Russell Wakefield
#92. A man is born gentle and weak. At death, he is hard and stiff. Green plants are tender and filled with sap. At death, they are withered and dry. Therefore, the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death, and the gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.
Laozi
#93. Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences.
Daniel J. Siegel
#94. The disciple is rich not in possessions, but in personal identity.
Oswald Chambers
#95. Seek other people's advice, but don't take orders. And don't take 100% of anyone's advice. Make sure every decision you make is a product of your own conclusion. Be a student, not a disciple.
Jim Rohn
#96. ...An ethnically heterogeneous society without a unifying hero is bound to be torn apart by internal strife. Only a man capable of bringing about a workable consensus between the diverse people is truly a hero. Such a man has to be a true disciple of peace, unity, solidarity and justice.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#97. Now, stopping thought is only the beginning. As Brahmananda, who was a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, once remarked: The inner life begins with samadhi. This is an awesome thought, I realize, for the average person who meditates, that it could begin with samadhi.
Frederick Lenz
#98. Being a disciple is more than being good: it is about searching for perfection through the love of Jesus Christ.
Michael J. Coyner
#99. That they believe in you does not make them your disciple
Sunday Adelaja
#100. To be a disciple means forsaking everything to follow Jesus, unconditionally, putting our lives completely in His hands. When we say that we want to be His disciple, yet attach a list of conditions, Jesus refuses to accept our terms. His terms involve unconditional surrender.
Richard Stearns
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