Good Disciple Quotes

#1. I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

Antonio Porchia

#2. When you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air.

Stephen Covey

#3. 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

#4. Sauvage, sad, silent,
as timid as the sylvan doe,
in her own family
she seemed a strangeling.

Alexander Pushkin

#5. Being a disciple is more than being good: it is about searching for perfection through the love of Jesus Christ.

Michael J. Coyner

#6. The characteristic of a disciple is not that he does good things, but that he is good in his motives, having been made good by the supernatural grace of God.

Oswald Chambers

#7. No seventeenth-century pedagogue would have publicly advised his disciple, as did Erasmus in his Dialogues, on the choice of a good prostitute.

Michel Foucault

#8. Wherever there's bad, there's always good nearby. That's nature's way.

Anya Peters

#9. I have a rule in research: The third time you hear something, it's generally true.

James L. Brooks

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But it was a dangerous path to be walking on as far as having a substantive life. Because the casualty rate at the Venice Film Festival for 18-year-olds? High.

Ethan Hawke

#13. 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

#14. Smartass Disciple: Master, I want to eradicate all corruptions in this world.
Master of Stupidity: Let it be a bit! Otherwise you'll make us jobless for good.

Toba Beta

#15. Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it. What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit their very self?

Melanie Dickerson

#16. Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was my mother's true disciple. She'd taught me that a good man, though elusive, could transform one's whole life once he was caught.

Edmund White

#17. What is a good definition of a disciple of Jesus? Do you agree with the statement, "All disciples are believers, but not all believers are disciples"? Why or why not? Are you a disciple of Jesus? Who is a disciple of Jesus today? Is discipleship optional?

Michael J. Wilkins

#18. No one whose first concern is feeling good can be a disciple. We are called to carry a cross and to glorify God.

Elisabeth Elliot

#19. Mario the Magnificent is Orange! His eyes sparkle with eagerness as he winks at me.

Bill Blais

#20. I would say the difference between 'old Mark' and post-stroke Mark ... is that pre-stroke Mark was a major micromanager. I just don't have the time or inclination to micromanage as much as I used to.

Mark Kirk

#21. Discipline yourself to be a disciple of great works and to do that excellently, you have to wave "bye-bye" to some things and then switch off your inner person not to go near them again!

Israelmore Ayivor

#22. When you have kept yourself isolated, no one relates to you, you have no way of understanding actually who you are.

Sally Field

#23. Good defeats evil most of the times, but sometimes in order to defeat the devil you must first become his disciple

Gaiven Clairmont