Top 100 Quotes About Discipleship
#1. Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning.
Mark Batterson
#2. We learn the language of prayer by immersing ourselves in the language that God uses to reveal Himself to us.
Eugene H. Peterson
#3. Rapture is costly; it usually means you are overlooking consequences.
Sherry Turkle
#4. 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.
Donald Miller
#5. Knowledge (curriculum) and behavior (pedagogy) are embedded in everyone's core beliefs about the nature of God, humanity, and the world.
Abraham Kuyper
#6. It is hard to hear God, but it is even harder not to hear God. The pain one brings upon oneself by living outside of evident reality is a greater and longer-lasting pain than the brief pain of facing it head on.
Richard Rohr
#7. I always have the feeling we are merely fearfully trying to save room for God; I would rather speak of God at the center than at the limits, in strength rather than weakness, and thus in human life and goodness rather than in death and guilt.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#8. Greatness recognizes greatness, and is shadowed by it.
Harold Bloom
#9. 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
#10. He did not falter, as long as there was a path that led toward his goal.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#13. T's really an encouragement of discipleship, it looks like anything else that we're offering to anyone else, any other person struggling with any other issue in their life. It's about pursuing a relationship with Christ.
Alan Chambers
#14. 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
#15. I'm not trying to bleed you. I want to renew you.
W.P. Kinsella
#16. It takes a while for revelry to turn to reverence, and much repetition of truth to eventual turn young zeal into habitual channels for good.
Elisabeth Elliot
#17. We will go no place where we cannot take our Master with us. While others take their liberty to sin, We will not renounce our liberty to rebuke and confront them.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#18. Some Christians believe the harder that one thinks, the colder faith will grow. Augustine grew more brilliant as he grew more pious, more creative as he became more orthodox. His period of heresy was imitative, but his traditional Christianity took mental risks.
John Mark Reynolds
#19. To know there is a better story for your life and to choose something other is like choosing to die.
Donald Miller
#20. We see baptism as the starting point in our journey of discipleship. Our daily walk with Jesus Christ leads to peace and purpose in this life and profound joy and eternal salvation in the world to come.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#22. To be a disciple of Jesus means to learn from Him, to follow Him. The cost may be high.
Billy Graham
#23. Survivor" is not a label you choose for yourself.
Harry Smith
#24. What Paul understands by holiness or sanctification (is) the learning in the present of the habits which anticipate the ultimate future.
N. T. Wright
#25. With passion you want to possess. The conversion of passion into compassion is the whole problem of marriage.
Joseph Campbell
#26. I experienced the Church to be this refuge within and beyond myself.
James Finley
#27. He'd made a name for himself out there in the world beyond not just in spite of the distinctly unfashionable persona he presented, but, perhaps, BECAUSE of it.
Chris Matthews
#28. Dream not that worldlings will admire you, or that the more holy and the more Christ-like you are, the more peaceably people will act towards you. They prized not the polished gem, how should they value the jewel in the rough?
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#29. Mine is to chew on the appropriate texts and make them delectable.
Gregory Of Nyssa
#30. See, loving heart, how He delights in you. When you lean your head on His bosom, you not only receive, but you give Him joy; when you gaze with love upon His all-glorious face, you not only obtain comfort, but impart delight.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#31. The heart of a Christian, who believes and feels, cannot pass the hardships and deprivations of the poor without helping them.
Louis Guanella
#32. There is never a time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment, the time is always now.
James Baldwin
#33. If we're going to make disciples and move out in mission, we need to go from managing boundaries to integrating family and mission into one life, a cohesive framework and fabric that empowers a culture of discipleship and mission, not just occasional events and periodic programs.
Mike Breen
#34. There is nothing Christ dislikes more than for His people to make a showpiece of Him and not to use Him.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#35. He assumed that the shape of renewal is death and resurrection.
Samuel Wells
#36. Though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little.
Edith Hamilton
#37. No matter how high the powers of reason, no matter how deep the intellect, no one can discover God's secret messages without paying the cost of true discipleship.
Winkie Pratney
#38. Spontaneities offer one kind of pleasure and taste of sanctity, repetitions another equally pleasurable and holy.
Eugene H. Peterson
#39. God is not preparing you for anything; obedience is its own end in the purpose of God; be faithful to Him.
Oswald Chambers
#40. I believe it to be one of the most important discipleship resources we have produced at Ligonier.
R.C. Sproul
#41. Edmondson has incisively discussed the ways college campuses have grown akin to upscale retirement homes for the very young, where the promise of intellectually demanding courses ranks far below the lure of new gymnastic facilities.
Maureen Corrigan
#42. I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.
Mahatma Gandhi
#43. 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
#45. If thou rememberest that thou art going to heaven, thou wilt not sleep on the road. If thou thinkest that hell is behind thee, and the devil pursuing thee, thou wilt not loiter.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#46. 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
#47. Christ distributes courage through community. He dissipates doubt through fellowship. Max Lucado
Matt Chandler
#48. The problem with spiritual procrastination is the uncertain time of the deadline.
Kevin Thoman
#49. The formal definition of impact is a forcible contact between two things, and God has designed our lives for a collision course with the world.
David Platt
#51. Suffering, then, is the badge of true discipleship. The disciple is not above his master. Following Christ means passio passiva, suffering because we have to suffer.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#52. The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.
Abraham Lincoln
#53. Unlike most politicians who follow their audience, (Robert) Kennedy tried to lead his.
Thurston Clarke
#54. Worship shadows eternity and provides supernatural encouragement.
Matt Chandler
#55. The author cites researcher David Howard's idea of post-traumatic growth. Howard contends that some individuals faced with a traumatic event actually develop new strength.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#56. Just as the Word of God is used in conversion, so it is a critical instrument in our spiritual growth. By immersing ourselves in the Word of God, we begin to gain the mind of Christ and learn what discipleship is.
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R.C. Sproul
#57. God is a good paymaster; He pays His servants while at work as well as when they have done it;
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#58. A wilderness experience includes a long walk back.
Dennis Garvin
#59. To be a disciple is to be committed to Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord and committed to following Him every day. To be a disciple is also to be disciplined in our bodies, minds, and souls.
Billy Graham
#60. Sometimes the imagination could be even crueler than the bone saw.
Robert Kurson
#61. 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
#62. Leviathan laughs at the javelin, but he trembles at prayer. Sword and spear need furbishing, but prayer never rusts, and when we think it most blunt it cuts the best. Prayer is an open door which none can shut. Devils may surround you on all sides, but the way upward is always open.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#64. [Mary] says her memories
Will help those of us
Newly come to our Lord's mercy,
To live in His light.
Jessica Coupe
#65. Any counseling that does not pursue spiritual formation through an intimate relationship with Jesus by faith as one of its chief goals is not worthy to be called BIBLICAL counseling.
James MacDonald
#67. A philosophy that cannot be lived is no philosophy at all.
Philip Zaleski
#68. The counselee should be aware that you are not God. Better yet, she should be aware that you are aware that you are not God.
James MacDonald
#71. 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
#72. Discipleship is based not on devotion to abstract ideals, but on devotion to a person, the Lord Jesus Christ;
Oswald Chambers
#73. Part of the genius of (Nick) Sabin's system was that he understood that no matter the skill set, he was inheriting vulnerable kids from various backgrounds. For those times when they made poor decisions, as they invariably did, the safety net must be strong as far and wide as possible.
Jeff Benedict
#74. I should not mistake her calm probing for the absence of anger.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#75. Let our liberty be practically exhibited by serving the Lord with gratitude and delight.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#76. For a long time, I thought I was good at relationships because I was charming.
Donald Miller
#77. Our nearness to the king in love is nearness to those who love not the king.
William Shakespeare
#78. John D Rockefeller read his Bible religiously, but kept his ledger in a different drawer.
H.W. Brands
#80. Don't get me wrong, I like NASCAR and shopping at Nordstrom's, but discipleship is intrinsic as a lifestyle."
~R. Alan Woods [2013]
R. Alan Woods
#81. We all want to be called servants until someone treats us like one.
Albert Baylis
#83. Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#85. Our Lord never lays down the conditions of discipleship as the conditions of salvation.
Oswald Chambers
#86. The author attributes part of the Carter-Reagan divide to their respective attitudes toward the city from which they governed. Carter was deeply suspicious of its coziness. Reagan intended to enjoy his temporary home even while delivering it from its reigning ideology.
Chris Matthews
#87. 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.
Douglas Wilson
#88. When the convert emerges from the water, the world seems changed. The world has not changed, it is always wonderful and horrible, iniquitous and filled with beauty. But now, after baptism, the eyes that see the world have changed.
Liturgy Training Publications
#89. We must help men and women see the epic in the ordinary details of life.
Matt Chandler
#91. Discipleship is a commitment to the memory and presence of Jesus Christ that makes a difference in how a life is lived, driving thought and behavior week in and week out.
James Carroll
#92. (Bonhoeffer's) change was not an ungainly, embarrassing leap from which he would have to retreat slightly when he gained more maturity and perspective. It was by all accounts a deepening consistent with what had gone before.
Eric Metaxas
#93. His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness.
Charles Stanley
#94. True knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
John Calvin
#95. If God declares that all is well, ten thousand devils may declare it to be ill, but we laugh them all to scorn. Blessed be God for a faith which enables us to believe God when the creatures contradict Him.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#96. We think in terms of apostolic journeys. God dares to put His greatest ambassadors in chains.
Watchman Nee
#97. Jesus loved manhood so much, that He delighted to honour it; and since it is a high honour, and indeed, the greatest dignity of manhood, that Jesus is the Son of man,
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#98. Cause every task of your day to be a sacred ministry to the Lord. however mundane your duties, for you they are a sacrament.
Richard J. Foster
#99. 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
#100. I want to become more and more like Jesus my Lord, my Saviour. And the way we do that is through discipleship. So I get myself discipled by great men like Doctor Phil Pringle, constantly speaking into my life.
Kong Hee
