Discipleship Quotes

Nietzsche tended to equate the memorable with the painful.

Terror and rapture to Emily Dickinson are alternative words for "transport".

The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks.

Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.

Romance depends upon imperfect knowledge.

Capital is necessary to the cultivation of esthetic value.

Almost anything at all can be transmuted into a labyrinth.

You are my Beloved, on you my favor rests.' It certainly is not easy to hear that voice in a world f...

To be a man, a boy must see a man.

Human sin is stubborn, but not as stubborn as the grace of God and not half as persistent, not half ...

When it comes to biblical counseling, friendship is central to the counseling relationship because i...

At the end of life, each of us must answer the question, Whose story captured my soul?

Small groups are the place to push past Bible knowledge and on to life application so that we can se...

Many pastors would rather preach God's Word and keep their distance than invest in a personal one-on...

A continual diet of the Word satisfies, and it builds an appetite for more.

Counseling is ultimately not about the counselee or the counselor, but about the Divine Counselor.

We must evaluate every person, place, product, perspective, position, or pleasure we have looked to ...

When we shift from personal purity to personal happiness, we lose biblical hope because we are not f...

Word-centered people who enter counseling will be more likely follow the guidance set out in Scriptu...

Any counseling that does not pursue spiritual formation through an intimate relationship with Jesus ...

So often, it's others around us who can see where God wants to grow us even before we see it ourselv...

If spiritual formation is the purpose of the church, then personal transformation should intentional...

If our counseling is truly Christ-centered, then the topic of forgiveness will inevitably come up in...

A soul that is happy in the things of God can overcome tremendous obstacles.

The counselee should be aware that you are not God. Better yet, she should be aware that you are awa...

We are less interested in the number of disciples and more interested in the quality of discipleship...

In healthy churches, the pastors life, not just his words, sets the tone for the church.

You can't teach a person to love something. But you can get him to feel the heat of your love for so...

If all you are doing is spending time with the struggling members of your church and you are not bui...

You've been told that you're broken, that you're damaged goods and should be labeled victims. I don'...

True knowledge of God is born out of obedience.

The Must be worthless by our estimation or keep us enslaved by an intemperate love of it.

Tasks don't have to be high-impact to be worthy of high effort. Most things we do in any given day a...

The most precious gifts you can think of are not ends in themselves. They all lead to God. Ultimatel...

We ascribe to God. We don't add to Him.

Salvation is the creation of new desires, not just new goodies.

The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.

If we are cut loose from the anchor of God's Word, we will not be free. We will be slaves of persona...

We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.

The fight for joy is first and always a fight to see.

Desire for and delight in God's Word are inseparable.

By nature, we get more pleasure from God's gifts then from Himself.

Don't make peace with the sin in your life.

DOING is often God's remedy for despair.

Tasks don't have to be high-impact to be worthy of high effort. Most things we do in any given day a...

The most precious gifts you can think of are not ends in themselves. They all lead to God. Ultimatel...

We ascribe to God. We don't add to Him.

We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.

If we are cut loose from the anchor of God's Word, we will not be free. We will be slaves of persona...

Desire for and delight in God's Word are inseparable.

By nature, we get more pleasure from God's gifts then from Himself.

Don't make peace with the sin in your life.

DOING is often God's remedy for despair.

Salvation is the creation of new desires, not just new goodies.

The fight for joy is first and always a fight to see.

The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.

Tasks don't have to be high-impact to be worthy of high effort. Most things we do in any given day a...

The most precious gifts you can think of are not ends in themselves. They all lead to God. Ultimatel...

We ascribe to God. We don't add to Him.

If we are cut loose from the anchor of God's Word, we will not be free. We will be slaves of persona...

We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.

Desire for and delight in God's Word are inseparable.

By nature, we get more pleasure from God's gifts then from Himself.

Don't make peace with the sin in your life.

DOING is often God's remedy for despair.

Salvation is the creation of new desires, not just new goodies.

The fight for joy is first and always a fight to see.

The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.

We ascribe to God. We don't add to Him.

Tasks don't have to be high-impact to be worthy of high effort. Most things we do in any given day a...

The most precious gifts you can think of are not ends in themselves. They all lead to God. Ultimatel...

If we are cut loose from the anchor of God's Word, we will not be free. We will be slaves of persona...

We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.

Salvation is the creation of new desires, not just new goodies.

Desire for and delight in God's Word are inseparable.

By nature, we get more pleasure from God's gifts then from Himself.

Don't make peace with the sin in your life.

DOING is often God's remedy for despair.

The fight for joy is first and always a fight to see.

The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.

I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15,...

The advantage which disciplined soldiers have over undisciplined hordes follows cheaply from the con...

Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder. Leon Cass

Focusing on effective leadership without focusing on a willingness to follow is like studying clappi...

With passion you want to possess. The conversion of passion into compassion is the whole problem of ...

How to teach again what has been taught correctly it incorrectly 1000 thousand times, throughout the...

The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

The imitation of Christ is the joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.

Mythology is to relate found truth to the living of a life.

It is only when you suffer that you truly understand.

Describing the relationship between the biblical witnesses and the theologians who come after, the a...

He keeps his voice kindly but remote. A cross between a pedagogue, soothsayer, and a benevolent uncl...

The big idea here is not, have you sinned, but are you changing?

An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself – self-discipline, self-control.

Any religious person who says he does not really need human friends because God is his Friend is cal...

When religion becomes so involved in a future good "over yonder" that it forgets the present evils o...

When an actor reaches down into his emotional well and pulls up a deeply personal response, the audi...

Just open your eyes! I thought. These desperate poor are your gurus.

The line between spontaneity and stupidity can be very thin.

Kids don't always stop to judge or analyze a new experience unless the adults around them react stro...