Discipleship Quotes - Page 2

• Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord's people.

  J. C. Ryle

  Real, People, Acting

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• Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Sin, Avoiding, God's Will

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• Discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Decision, Action

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.166, SCM Press

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• Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession.... Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Discipline, Grace

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2001). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.4, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• You will know as much of God, and only as much of God, as you are willing to put into practice.

  Eric Liddell

  Practice, Willing, Knows

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• Our problem is that we are in the Word but not under the Word.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Epic, Problem

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• At every step of our Christian development and in every sphere of our Christian discipleship, pride is the greatest enemy and humility our greatest friend.

  John Stott

  Christian, Humility, Pride

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• ...Christ did not appoint professors, but followers. If Christianity ... is not reduplicated in the life of the person expounding it, then he does not expound Christianity, for Christianity is a message about living and can only be expounded by being realized in men's lives.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Being Real, Messages

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• Through discipline, discipline is the other side of discipleship. If you want to follow Jesus, you have to have discipline.

  Henri Nouwen

  Jesus, Discipline, Want

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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• When God measures a man he puts the tape around the heart, not the head.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Heart, Men, Tape

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• You cannot impart what you do not possess.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Epic, Christian Discipleship, Impart

  Howard G. Hendricks, William D. Hendricks (2009). “As Iron Sharpens Iron: Building Character in a Mentoring Relationship”, p.58, Moody Publishers

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• Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Wisdom, Religious

  "Points of friction". Book by Agnes Repplier, "Consolations of the Conservative", 1920.

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• We believers do need to be challenged to a life of committed discipleship, but that challenge needs to be based on the gospel, not on duty or guilt. Duty or guilt may motivate us for awhile, but only a sense of Christ's love for us will motivate us for a lifetime.

  Jerry Bridges

  Challenges, Guilt, Needs

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• We should be more concerned with reaching the lost than pampering the saved.

  David McGee

  Pampering, Lost, Reaching

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• The Bible parable says that while men slept, the enemy sowed tares among the wheat. A boy who rises at 4:30 to deliver papers is considered a go-getter, but to urge our young people to rise at 5:30 to pray is considered fanaticism. We must once again wear the harness of discipline. There is no other way.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Men, Boys, Discipline

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• The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Hero, Son, Pay

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.32, SCM Press

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  If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Differences

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• When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Godly, Men, Christ

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.44, SCM Press

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• Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Men, Christ, Offers

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• You never graduate from the school of discipleship.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  School, Epic, Graduates

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• No matter how high the powers of reason, no matter how deep the intellect, no one can discover God's secret messages without paying the cost of true discipleship.

  Winkie Pratney

  Secret, Cost, Matter

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• Let us simplify our lives a little, let us make the changes necessary to focus on the simple, humble path of Christian discipleship.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Christian, Humble, Simple

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• Cheap grace is grace without discipleship.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Grace, Christian Discipleship, Cheap Grace

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

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

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Life Is, Obedience

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.266, Discovery House

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• To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

  Simone Weil

  Soul, Important, Needs

  Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.43, Routledge

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