Discipleship Quotes

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...

Lee was a born pedagogue, never happier than when his children were learning to do something the rig...

Unless a person can give reasons, there is, literally, no reason why anyone else should take that pe...

The power of the bleeding love of God is stronger than the power of Caesar, of the law, of Mars, Mam...

We have to grow into Scripture, like a young boy inheriting his older brother's clothes and flopping...

Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because o...

What Paul understands by holiness or sanctification (is) the learning in the present of the habits w...

The longer you look at Jesus, the more you will want to serve him in his world. That is, of course, ...

To many, "The Bible is a form of verbal wallpaper, pleasant enough in the background, but he stop th...

Christian spirituality combines a sense of the awe and majesty of God with a sense of His intimate p...

Tell someone to do something, and you change their life–for a day; tell someone a story and you chan...

The author cites researcher David Howard's idea of post-traumatic growth. Howard contends that some ...

A prophet is not someone who first had an idea. He is the one to first believe in it and take it to ...

Being self-owned is a state of mind.

The "show business," which is so incorporated into our view of Christian work today, has caused us t...

We are not built for mountains and dawns and artistic affinities; they are for moments of inspiratio...

There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wh...

The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus...

The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in pers...

The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. ...

You cannot have a moral holiday and remain moral, nor can you have a spiritual holiday and remain sp...

The test of mountain-top experiences, of mysticism, of visions of God and of solitariness is when yo...

The call of God is a call according to the nature of God; where we go in obedience to that call depe...

The narrator refers to a character as "an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that ...

There is nothing I like better than conversing with aged men. For I regard them as travelers who hav...

There's no such thing as a mistake, really. It's just an opportunity to do something else.

There's a difference, you know, between faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow. The ...

If any have more of the government of thee than Christ, or if thou hadst rather live after any other...

Many of your relationship problems are not really relationship problems. They're personal problems t...

The Mother Thing makes our world.

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallo...

The nobility of England would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. But you'll labor like sch...