Disciple Quotes - Page 16

• 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

  Community, Spirit, Cooperation

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• Put every great teacher in a room, and they'd agree about everything, but put their disciples in there and they'd argue about everything.

  Bruce Lee

  Funny, Sarcastic, Teacher

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• I believe passionately that Christianity is a way of life, not a theological system with which one must be in intellectual agreement. I feel that Christ would admit into discipleship anyone who sincerely desired to follow him, and allow that disciple to make his creed out of his experience; to listen, to consider, to pray, to follow, and ultimately to believe only those convictions about which the experience of fellowship made him sure.

  Leslie Weatherhead

  Life, God, Faith

  "The Christian Agnostic" by Leslie Weatherhead, (Preface, p. 16, sentences 2,3.), 1965.

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• The principle of Creative Limitations calls for freedom within a circle of obstacles and restricted boundaries. Talent is like a muscle: without something to push against, it atrophies. So we deliberately put obstacles in our path - barriers that will inspire us. We disciple ourselves as to what to do, while we're boundless as to how to do it.

  Robert McKee

  Inspiration, Creativity, Circles

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• ...for chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardour of a lover, the humility of a disciple.

  H. Russell Wakefield

  Humility, Chess, Lovers

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• Man dies but once. My disciples must not be cowards.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Coward, Dies

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2045, Manonmani Publishers

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• This extremely shocking and utterly revolutionary call is the essence of what it means to be a disciple of Jesus: we are not called to simply believe certain points or observe certain practices, but ultimately to cling to the person of Christ as life itself.

  David Platt

  Jesus, Believe, Mean

  David Platt (2013). “Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.”, p.54, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.

  Laozi

  Life, Gentle, Tao Te Ching Leadership

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• A master was once unmoved by the complaints of his disciples that, though they listened with pleasure to his parables and stories, they were also frustrated for they longed for something deeper. To all their objections he would simply reply: 'You have yet to understand, my friends, that the shortest distance between a human being and truth is a story.'

  Anthony de Mello

  Distance, Frustrated, Stories

  Anthony De Mello (1999). “Anthony De Mello: Writings”

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• One can be a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ without denying the flickers of the sacred in followers of Yahweh, or Kali, or Krishna

  Leonard Sweet

  Sweet, Jesus, Faithful

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• Liberation does not concern the person, for liberation is freedom from the person. Basically the disciple and teacher are identical. Both are the timeless axis of all action and preception. The only difference is that one 'knows' himself for what he is while the other does not. The idea of being a person, an ego, is nothing other than an image held together by memory.

  Jean Klein

  Teacher, Memories, Differences

  Jean Klein (2006). “I Am”, p.11, New Harbinger Publications

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• The first duty of a Christian, of a disciple and follower of Jesus Christ, is to deny himself. To deny oneself means to give up one's bad habits, to root out of the heart all that ties us to the world; not to cherish bad desires and thoughts; to quench and suppress bad thoughts; to avoid occasions of sin; not to do or desire anything from self-love but to do everything out of love for God. To deny oneself means, according to the Apostle Paul, to be dead to sin and the world, but alive to God.

  Innocent of Alaska

  Christian, Jesus, Giving Up

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• Devotion has its own strange ways. It is not something rational, logical, something that can be explained to you. But it is something, if you go on growing from a student into a disciple, from a disciple into a devotee, and you come so close to the master that there is no distinction at all.

  Rajneesh

  Goes On, Growing, Way

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• 'I believe in o­ne God and Mohammed the Apostle of God,' is the simple and invariable profession of Islam. The intellectual image of the Deity has never been degraded by any visible idol; the honours of the prophet have never transgressed the measure of human virtue, and his living precepts have restrained the gratitude of his disciples within the bounds of reason and religion.

  Edward Gibbon

  Gratitude, Believe, Simple

  Edward Gibbon, Francis Parkman, William H. Prescott, Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812”, p.1340, Modern Library

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• Street's disciple, my raps are trifle.
  I shoot slugs from my brain just like a rifle.

  Nas

  Rap, Hip Hop, Brain

  Song: The Genesis, Album: Illmatic

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• I don't respect killers, I respect O.G. knowledge,
  Codes of the streets got new rules, but no guidance.
  Lessons, detrimental to a young disciple;
  Folks, take care of your brothers, niggas do as I do.
  Keep your enemies close, where they can see you.
  It's not your enemy who get you, it's always your own people.

  Nas

  Brother, Rap, People

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• God was on the move; God is on the move; and God will always be on the move. Those who walk with God and listen to God are also on the move. Reading the Bible so we can live it out today means being on the move—always. Anyone who stops and wants to turn a particular moment into a monument, as the disciples did when Jesus was transfigured before them, will soon be wondering where God has gone.

  Scot McKnight

  Jesus, Moving, Reading

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• One only passes from the darkness of ignorance to the enlightenment of science if one re-reads with ever-increasing love the works of the ancients. Let the dogs bark, let the pigs grunt! I will nonetheless be a disciple of the ancients. All my care will be for them and the dawn will see me studying them.

  Peter of Blois

  Dog, Ignorance, Science

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• Jesus was not famous in his day. If there were no Bible, there would have been no record of him. The record belongs to his four disciples; nobody else has ever mentioned him, whether he existed or not. He was not famous. He was not successful. Can you think of a greater failure than Jesus? But, by and by, he became more and more significant; by and by, people recognized him. It takes time.

  Rajneesh

  Jesus, Successful, Thinking

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• The Scarlet Pimpernel is the most over-rated human being since Judas Iscariot won the A.D.31 'Best Disciple' competition.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Competition, Judas, Scarlet

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• I am God and my lawyers are my 12 disciples...do not f**k with me!

  Courtney Love

  Lawyer

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• As disciples of Christ, we have a sacred obligation to uphold His laws and commandments and the covenants which we take upon ourselves.

  Robert D. Hales

  Law, Covenant, Sacred

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• Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him.

  Ernest Renan

  Jesus, Humanity, Enemy

  Ernest Renan (1864). “The Life of Jesus”, p.90

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• Where possible Paul avoids quoting the teaching of Jesus, in fact even mentioning it. If we had to rely on Paul, we should not know that Jesus taught in parables, had delivered the sermon on the mount, and had taught His disciples the 'Our Father.' Even where they are specially relevant, Paul passes over the words of the Lord.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Jesus, Father, Teaching

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• Daily hope is vital, since the ‘Winter Quarters’ of our lives are not immediately adjacent to our promised land either. An arduous trek still awaits, but hope spurs weary disciples on.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Adversity, Winter, Land

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