Quotes About True Discipleship

#1. 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

#2. True discipleship is for volunteers only. Only volunteers will trust the Guide sufficiently to follow Him in the dangerous ascent which only He can lead.

Neal A. Maxwell

#3. True Discipleship makes a man and woman a project or an portrait painting to completion

With a careful detail and awareness of every stroke of the brush until the vision comes to pass

Louis

#4. 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

#5. Death had found them watching, trying to see beyond seeing.

Zora Neale Hurston

#6. True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.

Richard Rohr

#7. One senses, in all autobiography, a straining toward perfection, perfection of a kind that connects the individual with a cosmic pattern which, because it is perfect in itself, verifies that individuals own potential perfection.

Roger Rosenblatt

#8. I love playing the piano. I have one in my apartment, and I learnt by ear. I sing a lot of Coldplay, but do my own stuff too.

Christopher Egan

#9. 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

#10. You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether it is affirmative action or an opportunity that should be opened up to them. But at the same time I believe that people of color are not the only poor people in America and all over the world.

Russell Simmons

#11. Nothing is more important for mature Christian discipleship than a fresh, clear, true vision of the authentic Jesus.

John R.W. Stott

#12. In recent years we have become much more preoccupied with streamlining and organizing our subject than with maintaining its overall vitality. If we are not careful, a great adventure of the mind will become yet another profession.

Mark Kac

#13. Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.

Richard Rohr

#14. Do I have a personal history with Jesus Christ? The one true sign of discipleship is intimate oneness with Him - a

Oswald Chambers

#15. It is not a brave thing to trust God. To true believers, it is a sweet necessity.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#16. You have the chief spark of your health's fire, for you have true knowledge of the hand that guides the universe.

Boethius

#17. True spirituality is not taught, it's caught. Once our sails have been unfurled to the Spirit, henceforth our motivation for the journey toward holiness and wholeness is immense gratitude.

Richard Rohr

#18. A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

George R R Martin

#19. Love is the measure of our faith, the inspiration for our obedience, and the true altitude of our discipleship.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#20. 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

#21. True service is a lifestyle. It acts from the ingrained patterns of living. It springs spontaneously to meet human need.

Richard J. Foster

#22. Make me the father, O Lord, who will show my sons enough of a sense of humor, so that they will always be serious, but never take themselves too seriously. Give them humility, so they will always remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength.

Thom S. Rainer

#23. I'm so associated with being young and being with a teenager.

Molly Ringwald

#24. The cross where Jesus died became also the cross where His apostle died. The loss, the rejection, the shame, belong both to Christ and to all who in very truth are His. the cross that saves them also slays them, and anything short of this is a pseudo-faith and not true faith at all.

A.W. Tozer

#25. I come from a family of very strong women, women who have endured very tough lives in hopes of a better one for their children.

Afia Nathaniel

#26. A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.

William R. Alger

#27. Jennifer Fulwiler's story of finding God when you aren't looking for Him is a universal tale which will touch many hearts. With warmth and unflinching candor she leads us through a personal journey of faith and maturity that is as funny as it is affecting.

Raymond Arroyo

#28. True love is generative. It is the only kind that makes more of itself as it goes along.

Timothy Keller

#29. Art helped give me confidence.

Jeff Koons

#30. We have to love technology enough to describe it accurately. And we have to love ourselves enough to confront technology's true effect on us.

Sherry Turkle

#31. True knowledge of God is born out of obedience.

John Calvin