Discipleship Quotes

• Salvation is free, but discipleship will cost you your life

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Cost, Salvation

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• Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christianity, Christ, Christian Discipleship

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.17, SCM Press

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• Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Godly, Following Christ, Christianity

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.17, SCM Press

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• In our faith we follow in someone's steps. In our faith we leave footprints to guide others. It's the principle of discipleship

  Max Lucado

  Christian, Principles, Steps

  Max Lucado (2013). “Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal”, p.190, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Discipleship is the art and science of helping people find, follow and fully become like Jesus. Discipleship happens as God's people show love, share truth and live life with one another, making new disciples along the way.

  Brandon Cox

  Jesus, Art, Live Life

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• Our Lord's conception of discipleship is not that we work for God, but that God works through us.

  Oswald Chambers

  Inspirational, Lord, Conception

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart”, p.258, Discovery House

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• You teach what you know, but you reproduce what you are.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Leadership, Epic, Teach

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• The pursuit of God is not a part-time, weekend exercise. If it is, chances are you will experience a part-time, weekend freedom. Abiding requires a kind of staying power. The pursuit is relentless. It hungers and thirsts. It pants as the deer after the mountain brook. It takes the kingdom by storm...The pursuit of God is a pursuit of passion. Indifference will not do. To abide in the Word is to hang on tenaciously. A weak grip will soon slip away. Discipleship requires staying power. We sign up for duration. We do not graduate until heaven.

  R. C. Sproul

  Passion, Exercise, Weekend

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• Discipleship is not an option. Jesus says that if anyone would come after me, he must follow me.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Follow Me, Ifs

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• The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.

  John Ortberg

  Jesus, Mean, Choices

  John Ortberg, Stephen Sorenson, Amanda Sorenson (2003). “If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat: A 6-session Journey on Learning to Trust God”, p.32, Zondervan

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• The cost of discipleship is to live the life God has given us, serving in mundane ways the people he's put in our path.

  Mark Galli

  Live Life, People, Cost

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• There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after.

  Adoniram Judson

  Inspirational, Success, Sacrifice

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• Discipleship is a daily discipline; we follow Jesus a step at a time, a day at a time

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Christian, Jesus, Discipline

  Warren W. Wiersbe (2010). “Be Compassionate (Luke 1-13): Let the World Know That Jesus Cares”, p.123, David C Cook

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• Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.

  Dallas Willard

  Jesus, Becoming, Would Be

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• Love is the measure of our faith, the inspiration for our obedience, and the true altitude of our discipleship.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Inspiration, Love Is, Obedience

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• You can impress from a distance, but you can only impact up close.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Distance, Epic, Impact

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• Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.

  Brennan Manning

  Believe, Defining, Spirit

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• Discipleship is crucial to our ultimate destiny, but its cost is total commitment.

  David Jeremiah

  Commitment, Destiny, Cost

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• In the spiritual life only one thing produces genuine joy and that is obedience.

  Richard J. Foster

  Spiritual, Joy, Obedience

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• Without the Holy Spirit, Christian discipleship would be inconceivable, even impossible. There can be no life without the life-giver, no understanding without the Spirit of truth, no fellowship without the unity of the Spirit, no Christlikeness of character apart from His fruit, and no effective witness without His power. As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead.

  John Stott

  Christian, Character, Understanding

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of Acts”, p.27, InterVarsity Press

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• His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness.

  Charles Stanley

  Prayer, Voice, Witness

  Charles Stanley (2002). “How to Listen to God”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Jesus, Doctrine

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.360, Discovery House

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• If our Christianity has ceased to be serious about discipleship, if we have watered down the gospel into emotional uplift which makes no costly demands and which fails to distinguish between natural and Christian existence, then we cannot help regarding the cross as an ordinary everyday calamity, as one of the trials and tribulations of life. We have then forgotten that the cross means rejection and shame as well as suffering .

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Uplifting, Christian, Mean

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• Salvation is free, but discipleship costs everything we have

  Billy Graham

  Cost, Salvation

  Billy Graham (1966). “The Quotable Billy Graham”

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• It is possible to know all about doctrine and yet not know Jesus. The soul is in danger when knowledge of doctrine outsteps intimate touch with Jesus. ....Have I a personal history with Jesus Christ? The one sign of discipleship is intimate connection with Him, a knowledge of Jesus Christ nothing can shake.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Soul, Connections

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.225, Discovery House

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