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• It was humanly impossible for the disciples to free themselves from their selfish pursuit of self-exaltation, just as it's impossible for us to free ourselves from the very same sins.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Selfish, Exaltation, Impossible

  C.J. Mahaney (2008). “Humility: True Greatness”, p.31, Multnomah

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• Jesus has never slept for an hour while one of His disciples watched and prayed in agony.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Jesus, Agony, Hours

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 89), 1895.

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• Today one might be tempted to say that patriotism is the last refuge of the tribal religion dedicated to the worship of German, French, English and Russian Gods of Battles. Surely such a religion has nothing in common with the religion which counsels for the disciple non-resistance, unstinted forgiveness, and the elimination of all rancor?

  Joseph Alexander Leighton

  Battle, Lasts, Resistance

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• He who submits to discipline is a DISCIPLE.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Discipline, Submit

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• But how shall we excuse the supine inattention of the Pagan and philosophic world to those evidences which were presented by the hand of Omnipotence, not to their reason, but to their senses? During the age of Christ, of his apostles, and their first disciples, the doctrine which they preached was confirmed by innumerable prodigies. The lame walked, the blind saw, the sick were healed, the dead were raised, daemons were expelled, and the laws of Nature were frequently suspended for the benefit of the church.

  Edward Gibbon

  Hands, Law, Omnipotence

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.84

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• The Christ is a myth. The Holy Ghost Priestcraft overshadowed the harlot Superstition; this Christ was born; and the Joseph of humanity, beguiled by the Gabriel of credulity, was induced to support the family. But the soldiers of Reason have crucified the illegitimate impostor, he is dead; and the ignorant disciples and hysterical women who still linger about the cross should take his body down and bury it.

  John Remsburg

  Support, Soldier, Humanity

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• The grand reason of the burst of public sentiment in anathemas upon Christ and his disciples, causing his crucifixion, was evidently based upon polygamy, according to the testimony of the philosophers who rose in that age. A belief in the doctrine of a plurality of wives caused the persecution of Jesus and his followers. We might almost think they were 'Mormons.'

  Jedediah M. Grant

  Jesus, Thinking, Wife

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• The mega-strategy of Jesus: make disciples.

  David Platt

  Jesus, Strategy, Mega

  David Platt (2010). “Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream”, p.88, Multnomah

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• What I notice, as a historian reading stories about so-called nature miracles, the walking on the water, or the miraculous catch of fishes, they're done especially for the insiders, for the disciples. Usually healings and exorcisms are done for people along the road, as it were. Jesus doesn't come on the water to save the fishing fleet from Capernaum, he comes on the water to save the disciples. It's a parable, dummy, it's a parable, don't you get it? If the leadership of the church takes off in a boat without Jesus, it will sink, it will get nowhere.

  John Dominic Crossan

  Jesus, Reading, Healing

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The most common self-inflicted put-down is 'I am not a pastor-I am just a layperson.' This is all part of a clever satanic scheme to neutralize apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers along with the entire army of disciples, already positioned in the marketplace.

  Ed Silvoso

  Teacher, Clever, Army

  Ed Silvoso (2010). “Anointed for Business (Large Print 16pt)”, p.18, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The Buddha gave his first talks, and three or four ascetics became his first disciples. They recognized his enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Enlightenment, Firsts

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• Prosperity's disciples build careful bastions against age and change.

  Hildegard Knef

  Age, Prosperity, Careful

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• If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture, we must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.

  Alan Hirsch

  People, Community, Culture

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.72, Baker Books

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• Mary Magdalene beat her breasts and sobbed,
  His dear disciple, stone-faced, stared.
  His mother stood apart. No other looked
  into her secret eyes. Nobody dared.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Mother, Stones, Beloved

  "Crucifixion". Poem by Anna Akhmatova, 1940-1943.

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• The authority of Plato and Aristotle, of Zeno and Epicurus, still reigned in the schools; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference from one generation of disciples to another, precluded every generous attempt to exercise the powers, or enlarge the limits, of the human mind.

  Edward Gibbon

  Plato, School, Exercise

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1”, p.55

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• It is conceivable that God might have ordained to preach the Gospel directly to man through dreams, visions and revelations. But as a matter of fact, He has not done this; but rather has committed the preaching to man, telling them to go and disciple all nations. The responsibility lies squarely on our shoulders.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Dream, Lying, Responsibility

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• The disciples are drawn to the high altars with magnetic certainty, knowing that a great Presence hovers over the ranges ... You were within the portals of the temple ... to enter the wilderness and seek, in the primal patterns of nature, a magical union with beauty.

  Ansel Adams

  Knowing, Earth, Unions

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• If the defeated and depressed group of disciples overnight could change into a victorious movement of faith, based only on autosuggestion or self-deception-without a fundamental faith experience-then this would be a much greater miracle than the resurrection itself.

  Pinchas Lapide

  Self, Miracle, Deception

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• Making disciples by going, baptizing, and teaching people the Word of Christ and then enabling them to do the same thing in other people’s lives—this is the plan God has for each of us to impact nations for the glory of Christ

  David Platt

  Teaching, Impact, People

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• The Christian knows to serve the weak not because they deserve it but because God extended his love to us when we deserved the opposite. Christ came down from heaven, and whenever his disciples entertained dreams of prestige and power he reminded them that the greatest is the one who serves. The ladder of power reaches up, the ladder of grace reaches down.

  Philip Yancey

  Christian, Dream, Opposites

  Philip Yancey (2008). “What's So Amazing About Grace?”, p.180, Zondervan

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• Lewis sought no disciples, nor does he offer a program or solution, rather his contribution is a critical discipline. Lewis is a stimulant, a mode of perception, rather than a position or practice.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Practice, Discipline, Perception

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• Oh yeah In France a skinny man Died of a big disease with a little name By chance his girlfriend came across a needle And soon she did the same At home there are seventeen-year-old boys And their idea of fun Is being in a gang called The Disciples High on crack, totin' a machine gun.

  Prince

  Girlfriend, Fun, Home

  Song: Sign O' the Times

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• If you cannot see that divinity includes male and female characteristics and at the same time transcends them, you have bad consequences. Rome and Cardinal O'Connor base the exclusion of women priests on the idea that God is the Father and Jesus is His Son, there were only male disciples, etc. They are defending a patriarchal Church with a patriarchal God. We must fight the patriarchal misunderstanding of God.

  Hans Kung

  Jesus, Father, Fighting

  Newsweek interview, July 08, 1991.

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• For the flowers are great blessings. For the Lord made a Nosegay in the meadow with his disciples and preached upon the lily. For the flowers have great virtues for all senses. For the flower glorifies God and the root parries the adversary. For the flowers have their angels even the words of God's creation. For there is a language of flowers. For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.

  Christopher Smart

  Flower, Angel, Blessing

  Christopher Smart, “Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 3”

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• Whereas disinfecting Christians involves isolating them and teaching them to be good, discipling Christians involves propelling Christians into the world to risk their lives for the sake of others. Now the world is our focus, and we gauge success in the church not on the hundreds or thousands whom we can get into our buildings but on the hundreds or thousands who are leaving our buildings to take on the world with the disciples they are making

  David Platt

  Christian, Teaching, Focus

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