Quotes About Disciples

#1. There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

Charles Dickens

#2. They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. The very nature of the gospel is Jesus inviting the disciples on an adventure. To do what they'd never done and go where they'd never gone. Never a dull moment! You cannot follow Jesus and be bored at the same time.

Mark Batterson

#4. Our deepest joy comes from Christ: remaining with him, walking with him, being his disciples.

Pope Francis

#5. We are both disciples of the Louis Jordan song 'What's the Use of Getting Sober (When You're Gonna Get Drunk Again).

C.J. Box

#6. Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.

Charles Caleb Colton

#7. The disciples of a patient Saviour should be patient themselves.

Charles Spurgeon

#8. When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of the Lord.

Pope Francis

#9. God has no superstars! He has only disciples. Disciples are willing to be poured out in an endless stream of God's love.

Osunsakin Adewale

#10. However, he often feels challenged by those whom he teaches the sword. His disciples call him to combat.

Paulo Coelho

#11. Being true to one's duty is a mark of true disciples of the Lord and the children of God. Be valiant in your duty. Stay in step. Do not fail in your most important task, that of keeping your second estate. Be true to your duty, for it will bring you to God.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#12. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, and so are you.

Elie Wiesel

#13. Wall Street does not release its disciples cost-free. First it makes sure they're mental and emotional cripples, and then lets them decide if they still want to leave.

Katya G. Cohen

#14. May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.

Saint Ignatius

#15. It's not important to me to found a school; it's not important to me to have disciples.

John Eaton

#16. Rock n' roll is our religion, and we will continue to lose disciples as we go, but we pick up the fallen flag and keep moving forward, bringing forth the good news that our heroes have helped create, their bodies lost, but their spirits and their good work everlasting.

Steven Van Zandt

#17. Privately, however, He would explain everything to His own disciples.

Anonymous

#18. Jesus said his disciples would be known for their love, not for their placards of protest and angry letters to the editor.

Brian Zahnd

#19. Being a member of a church means realizing that we are responsible for helping the brothers and sisters around us to grow as disciples of Jesus. In the same way, they are responsible for helping us. We desperately need each other in the daily fight to follow Christ in a world that's full of sin.

David Platt

#20. For nearly 2,000 years, most people assumed that the only sources of tradition about Jesus and his disciples were the four gospels in the New Testament.

Elaine Pagels

#21. If Marx came back to life today, he would probably urge his few remaining disciples to devote less time to reading Das Kapital and more time to studying the Internet and the human genome.

Yuval Noah Harari

#22. We have to assess: Are we making disciples along the way as we draw people to our churches?

Ed Stetzer

#23. 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

#24. As disciples of Jesus Christ we have a responsibility to work together with like-minded believers, to raise our voices for what is right.

Robert D. Hales

#25. Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.

Pablo Picasso

#26. I'm out to take the Bible, create disciples who make disciples, disciple cycles ...

LeCrae

#27. When we want decisions more than we want disciples, we get tares instead of true converts and Ichabod, departed glory for the church.

James MacDonald

#28. When Jesus wanted to explain to his disciples what his death was all about, he didn't give them a theory, he gave them a meal.

N. T. Wright

#29. Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?

Dallas Willard

#30. Perhaps the transformation of the disciples of Jesus is the greatest evidence of all for the resurrection.

John R.W. Stott

#31. Mentoring is the last refuge of the older artist. With luck, disciples will keep one's books in print, one's reputation alive.

Michael Dirda

#32. Let's commit ourselves to being true disciples of Jesus Christ. Not mere fair-weather followers, but disciples.

Greg Laurie

#33. Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.' It's the rought waters that train us to e His disciples. He uses the turbulent times I our lives to prepare us for His purposes-if we'll let Him.

Lynn Austin

#34. The most common self-inflicted put-down is 'I am not a pastor-I am just a layperson.' This is all part of a clever satanic scheme to neutralize apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers along with the entire army of disciples, already positioned in the marketplace.

Ed Silvoso

#35. Community is essential when it comes to successfully living out the Christian walk in a day-to-day context. So the math is simple: More community = More disciples Understanding the nature of groups helps you

Ed Stetzer

#36. There were nowhere more docile disciples of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin than the Nazis were.

Ludwig Von Mises

#37. Authentic disciples love God, love people, and reproduce spiritually. These are the marks of Kingdom-minded men and women. They are consumed with love and purpose.

Bo Chancey

#38. It was humanly impossible for the disciples to free themselves from their selfish pursuit of self-exaltation, just as it's impossible for us to free ourselves from the very same sins.

C.J. Mahaney

#39. Even if the disciples had believed in the resurrection of Jesus, it is doubtful they would have generated any following. So long as the body was interred in the tomb, a Christian movement founded on belief in the resurrection of the dead man would have been an impossible folly.

William Lane Craig

#40. There is such a thing as a Pentecost still to the disciples of Jesus; but it comes to him who has forsaken all to follow Jesus only, and in following fully has allowed the Master to reprove and instruct him.

Andrew Murray

#41. Sharing our stories is a vital part of doing life together. The disciples shared their stories and changed the world, not because they were extraordinary men, but because they told about an extraordinary God.

Cindee Snider Re

#42. The founder of any branch must be more ingenious than the common man. However, if his achievement is not carried on by disciples of the same ingenuity, then things will only become formalized and get stuck in a cul-de-sac; whereby breakthrough and progress will be almost impossible.

Bruce Lee

#43. Theology is faith seeking understanding, but understanding is more than theoretical. If we really grasp who and where we are as disciples, we should know how to live out our faith.

Kevin Vanhoozer

#44. 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

#45. The greatest word of Jesus to His disciples is abandon

Oswald Chambers

#46. The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.

Dallas Willard

#47. I urge you to continue your fraternal cooperation with one another in the spirit of the community of Christ's disciples, united in your love for him and in the Gospel that you proclaim.

Pope Benedict XVI

#48. Jesus asked the Father for his disciples' security, sanctity and unity. Jesus still intercedes for us so fervently because we live in a world that is deceived, dangerous, defiled and divided.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#49. Jesus has never slept for an hour while one of His disciples watched and prayed in agony.

Henry Clay Trumbull

#50. I and others may be revolutionaries but we are disciples of Mahatma Gandhi, directly or indirectly, nothing more nothing less.

Ho Chi Minh

#51. The church as a whole has strayed quite far from biblical evangelism; that is, sharing the Gospel in the way that Jesus did, the way the Apostle Paul did, and the rest of the disciples and prophets in Scripture.

Kirk Cameron

#52. Before three thousand people were brought into the church on the day of Pentecost, the disciples had spent fifty days in prayer, fasting, and spiritual travail.

Billy Graham

#53. The most effective way to share the gospel is to live it. When we live like disciples of Christ should live, when we aren't just good but happy to be good, others will be drawn to us.

Sheri L. Dew

#54. As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.

Adam Clarke

#55. Is mathematics doomed to suffer the same fate as other sciences that have split into separate branches? ... Mathematics is, in my opinion, an indivisible whole ... May the new century bring with it ingenious champions and many zealous and enthusiastic disciples.

David Hilbert

#56. Our normal is so subnormal that normal seems radical. To the first-century disciples, normal and radical were synonyms. We've turned them into antonyms.

Mark Batterson

#57. Men and women whose outlook on life is conditioned by the Dow are shrewder on the street than are the disciples on their spiritual journey.

Brennan Manning

#58. Throughout Jesus' ministry, He took time away from the crowds and even His disciples to pray by Himself. Jesus modeled the importance of not only serving God with our actions but of being still and drawing close to God to renew our souls.

David Jeremiah

#59. Imitators? All right! Disciples if you like. But disciples be damned. It's not interesting.

Pablo Picasso

#60. Salvation and sanctification are the work of God's sovereign grace; our work as His disciples is to disciple lives until they are wholly yielded to God.

Oswald Chambers

#61. If the defeated and depressed group of disciples overnight could change into a victorious movement of faith, based only on autosuggestion or self-deception-without a fundamental faith experience-then this would be a much greater miracle than the resurrection itself.

Pinchas Lapide

#62. Maybe the worst failure for a church is success in things that aren't producing reproducing disciples. At

J.D. Greear

#63. If we are truly disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, we will reach out with love and understanding to all of our neighbors at all times.

M. Russell Ballard

#64. The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position.

Josh McDowell

#65. Evangelism is more than simply encouraging decisions for Christ. It is urging people to become disciples - followers - of Jesus Christ. As such, the evangelist has a responsibility to make growth in discipleship possible for those who come to faith under his ministry.

Billy Graham

#66. I'm supposed to share the Lord with people. All of us are disciples on some level. You don't have to be behind the podium to tell a story, connect with people and share the Gospel.

Trai Byers

#67. Far from being a paradox, this invitation is more reasonable than that of our modern gurus, who ask their disciples to imitate them as the great man or woman who imitates no one. Jesus, by contrast, invites us to do what he himself does, to become like him a perfect imitator of God the Father.

Rene Girard

#68. Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict.

Hannah More

#69. We have got to make disciples. Fun nights and pizza nights are not going to sustain us.

Francis Chan

#70. Being a member of a church means so much more than standing next to someone else and singing some songs once a week. Being a member of a church means realizing that we are responsible for helping the brothers and sisters around us to grow as disciples of Jesus.

David Platt

#71. Don't let the whirlwinds drag you down. These are your days - to stand strong as disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Neil L. Andersen

#72. One of the most significant lessons Jesus taught his disciples was to stop looking for God's life in the regimen of rituals and rules. He came not to refurbish religion, but to offer them a relationship.

Jake Colsen

#73. Jesus & his apostles & disciples were all artists

William Blake

#74. Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses

Francis Chan

#75. If we are not one, we are not in the true sense of the word the disciples of the Lord Jesus.

Brigham Young

#76. 6And he said to them, d Do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen; he is not here. See the place where they laid him. 7But go, tell his disciples and Peter that e he is going before you to Galilee. There you will see him, e just as he told you.

Anonymous

#77. What did Jesus tell his disciples? "Heaven is right here in the midst of you."6 In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus makes a prediction that to this day few people have understood.

Eckhart Tolle

#78. Disciples [deep people] are not manufactured wholesale. They are produced one by one, because someone has taken the pains to discipline, to instruct and enlighten, to nurture and train one that is younger.

J. Oswald Sanders

#79. Why only twelve disciples? Go out and get thousands.

Samuel Goldwyn

#80. Devoted disciples of Jesus Christ always have been and always will be valiant missionaries. A missionary is a follower of Christ who testifies of Him as the Redeemer and proclaims the truths of His gospel.

David A. Bednar

#81. Jesus sowed good seeds into the lives of the people He touched. His walk was humble, meek, giving, and forgiving, and He taught His disciples to be the same way.

Monica Johnson

#82. The Son of God told his disciples to baptize "in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" (Matthew 28:19). "Name," note, not "names": the three persons together constitute the one God.

J.I. Packer

#83. There is no substitute for obedience to the commands and demands of the gospel, of doing what we are supposed to do as disciples of Jesus Christ. We can never truly be happy or have great hope unless we follow Heavenly Father's plan for our happiness.

David S. Baxter

#84. Jesus did not come to be right. He came to make disciples.

Andy Stanley

#85. Leaders are readers, disciples want to be taught and everyone has gifts within that need to be coached to excellence.

Wayde Goodall

#86. Jesus prays the Psalms of Israel with his disciples: this element is fundamental for understanding the figure of Jesus, but also for understanding the Psalms themselves, which in him could be said to acquire a new subject, a new mode of presence, and an extension beyond Israel into universality.

Pope Benedict XVI

#87. Pray not only for your disciples but for all who believes in you

Sunday Adelaja

#88. St. Luke again associates St. John with St. Peter in the Acts of the Apostles, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples.

Alfred Noyes

#89. The preaching of the Church truly continues without change and is everywhere the same. It has the testimony of the Prophets and Apostles and all their disciples.

Irenaeus Of Lyons

#90. Only Marxists," Dr. Iggy concluded, opening the door to usher Joe into the chapel room, "still
believe in an objective history. Marxists and a few disciples of Ayn Rand.

Robert Shea

#91. Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him; one doubted Him; one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government?

Richard J. Daley

#92. Before Jesus leads His disciples into suffering, humiliation, disgrace, and disdain, He summons them and shows Himself to them as the Lord in God's glory.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#93. The authority of Plato and Aristotle, of Zeno and Epicurus, still reigned in the schools; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference from one generation of disciples to another, precluded every generous attempt to exercise the powers, or enlarge the limits, of the human mind.

Edward Gibbon

#94. Christ held Himself in His hands when He gave His Body to His disciples saying: 'This is My Body.' No one partakes of this Flesh before he has adored it.

Saint Augustine

#95. A guru trains his disciples to become Krishna dasa, a menial servant of Krishna.

Lokanatha Swami

#96. There's a group of 12 oak trees on my property in California that I call 'my disciples.' Their branches form a canopy over the ground, and I sit underneath them for inspiration.

Oprah Winfrey

#97. When Jesus was roaming the earth, he used powerful stories to inspire disciples to follow him and, in turn, impacted millions of lives for centuries. How

Matt Morris

#98. Disciples are handmade, one relationship at a time.

David Kinnaman

#99. We are being called to a new and deeper passion: to those who live under the shadow of the cross and those most in need of compassion. Then we become mothers of God, sisters and brothers of Jesus, the loved disciples born in the blood of the Cross and fed on the Word of God.

Megan McKenna

#100. Disciples are people who operate under the rule of God, and if we're not operating under the rule of God, we can't expect the broader society to take God seriously.

Tony Evans