Disciple Quotes - Page 4

• Cheap grace is grace without discipleship.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Grace, Discipleship, Christian Discipleship

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.4, SCM Press

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• The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.

  Dallas Willard

  Jesus, Challenges, Church

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• If the heart is devoted to the mirage of the world, to the creature instead of the Creator, the disciple is lost... However urgently Jesus may call us, His call fails to find access to our hearts... for they have already been given to another.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Heart, Mirages

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• The church is not an audience of spectators; we are a fellowship of disciple-makers

  David Platt

  Church, Fellowship, Makers

  Twitter post from Oct 11, 2012

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• You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

  Aldous Huxley

  Funny, Bible, Jesus

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• Disciples [deep people] are not manufactured wholesale. They are produced one by one, because someone has taken the pains to discipline, to instruct and enlighten, to nurture and train one that is younger.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Pain, Taken, Discipline

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• Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• Often the children of God cannot rise up to answer the Lord's call to service simply because, though their physical condition is good, their feelings are low, cold, and reluctant. Or even when their emotions are quite high, passionate, and willing, they find themselves unable to serve the Lord because now the body reacts lazily. The disciples found themselves in precisely that situation in the Garden of Gethsemane: "the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak"

  Watchman Nee

  Children, Garden, Feelings

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.356, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  God, Christian, Respect

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.150, SCM Press

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• Prayer requires that we stand in God's presence with open hands, naked and vulnerable, proclaiming to ourselves and to others that without God we can do nothing. As disciples, we find not some but all of our strength, hope, courage, and confidence in God. Therefore, prayer must be our first concern.

  Henri Nouwen

  Prayer, Hands, Naked

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• Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Grace, Christ

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.4, SCM Press

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• Being a disciple of Jesus Christ is not an effort of once a week or once a day. It is an effort of once and for all.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Effort, Christ

  FaceBook post by Dieter F Uchtdorf from Apr 06, 2014

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• Do not become a disciple of one who praises himself, in case you learn pride instead of humility.

  Mark the Evangelist

  Humility, Pride, Praise

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• Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.

  Dallas Willard

  Want, Christ, Has Beens

  Dallas Willard (2014). “Living in Christ's Presence: Final Words on Heaven and the Kingdom of God”, p.17, InterVarsity Press

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• As you go forth and share our core beliefs and the fruits of our doctrines, misperceptions will dissolve, prejudices will diminish, and people will come to see Latter-day Saints as devout disciples of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

  Quentin L. Cook

  Jesus, People, Saint

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• Perhaps the transformation of the disciples of Jesus is the greatest evidence of all for the resurrection.

  John Stott

  Jesus, Transformation, Resurrection

  John Stott, Rick Warren (2012). “Basic Christianity, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition”, p.70, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Jesus, Fearless, Church

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• Jesus did not send us into the world to make believers but to make disciples.

  Shane Claiborne

  Jesus, World, Believer

  Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo (2012). “Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?”, p.9, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• True disciples of Jesus Christ have always been concerned for the one. Jesus Christ is our greatest example. He was surrounded by multitudes and spoke to thousands, yet He always had concern for the one.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Jesus, Example, Christ

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• All too often, it seems, we're willing to be students of Christianity rather than disciples of Christ.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Students, Christianity, Willing

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• Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.44, Macmillan

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• Jesus is challenging that when addressing "who is your neighbor" and he has a lot of hard things to say about family, "unless you hate your own family you are not going to be a disciple." He is challenging the limits of our compassion and our love as if someone's kid suffers it should be as devastating to us as if it were our own kid. That is what the early church said.

  Shane Claiborne

  Jesus, Hate, Kids

  "Interview with Shane Claiborne: Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

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• A true disciple inquires not whether a fact is agreeable to his own reason.His pride has yielded to the divine testimony.

  Adoniram Judson

  Pride, Facts, Reason

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• Fortunately, God made all varieties of people with a wide variety of interests and abilities. He has called people of every race and color who have been hurt by life in every manner imaginable. Even the scars of past abuse and injury can be the means of bringing healing to another. What wonderful opportunities to make disciples!

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Leadership, Hurt, Mean

  Charles R. Swindoll (2008). “Walk with Jesus: A Journey to the Cross and Beyond”, p.57, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We are all missionary disciples

  Pope Francis

  Missionary

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.38, BookBaby

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