Discipleship Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?

  Thomas a Kempis

  Art, Pain, Adversity

  St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume”, p.1583, Moody Publishers

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• Every church needs to grow warmer through fellowship, deeper through discipleship, stronger through through worship, and larger through evangelism.

  Rick Warren

  Church, Stronger, Needs

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• The born-again Christian sees life not as a blurred , confused, meaningless mass, but as something planned and purposeful.

  Billy Graham

  Life, Faith, God

  Billy Graham (2006). “Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith”, p.22, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It is the Father's life, and the Father's life alone, that ever lives the Christian life. It is the Father's life, and Father's life alone, which will live the Christian life in you. Embrace a formula or a list in order to "live the Christian life," and you are doomed to frustration.

  Gene Edwards

  Christian, Father, Frustration

  Gene Edwards (1991). “The secret to the Christian life: have we overlooked the main point?”, Christian Books Pub House

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• Do not scrutinize so closely whether you are doing much or little, ill or well, so long as what you do is not sinful and that you are heartily seeking to do everything for God. Try as far as you can to do everything well, but when it is done, do not think about it. Try, rather, to think of what is to be done next. Go on simply in the Lord's way, and do not torment yourself. We ought to hate our faults, but with a quiet, calm hatred; not pettishly and anxiously.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Hate, Thinking, Long

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• We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom He has given the breath of life. We die in order to live.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, Order, Want

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.73, Revell

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• Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Love Is, Judging Yourself, Evil

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.129, SCM Press

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• One can believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ and feel no personal loyalty to Him at all - indeed, pay no attention whatever to His commandments and His will for one's life.

  Catherine Marshall

  Loyalty, Jesus, Believe

  Catherine Marshall (1961). “Beyond Our Selves, A Pilgrimage in Faith”

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• Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts about the other person, to realize his shortcomings, but only to the extent that it offers to me an occasion for forgiveness and unconditional love, as Jesus proves to me.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Unconditional Love, Judgement

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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• The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and putting your nose in a slicing machine: its dumb, stupid, and no fun. Some individual sins may have pleasure still attached to them because of the residual goodness of the realities they are abusing: adultery can indeed be pleasant and tying one on can amuse. But betrayal, jealousy, love grown cold, and the gray dawn of the morning after are nobody's idea of a good time.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Morning, Fun, Betrayal

  Robert Farrar Capon (2002). “Kingdom, Grace, Judgment: Paradox, Outrage, and Vindication in the Parables of Jesus”, p.253, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Jesus never discipled one-on-one.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Jesus, Epic, One On One

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• Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard.

  Pope Gregory I

  Learning, Practice, Heard

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• I surrendered unto Him all there was of me; everything! Then for the first time I realized what it meant to have real power.

  Kathryn Kuhlman

  Real, Firsts, First Time

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• True discipleship is for volunteers only. Only volunteers will trust the Guide sufficiently to follow Him in the dangerous ascent which only He can lead.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Volunteer, Ascent, Guides

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• Conversion does not make us perfect, but it does catapult us into a total experience of discipleship that affects - and infects - every sphere of our living.

  Richard J. Foster

  Perfect, Spheres, Doe

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• The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything can be had for nothing.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Essence, Grace, Accounts

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.3, SCM Press

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• It is a lesson we all need - to let alone the things that do not concern us. He has other ways for others to follow Him; all do not go by the same path. It is for each of us to learn the path by which He requires us to follow Him, and to follow Him in that path.

  Katharine Drexel

  God, Faith, Christian

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• Knowing that we are fulfilling God's purpose is the only thing that gives rest to the restless human heart.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Heart, Knowing

  Charles Colson, Nancy Pearcey (2011). “How Now Shall We Live?”, p.204, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Any objection to the carryings on of our present gold-calf Christianity is met with the triumphant reply, ‘But we are winning them!’ Winning them to what? To true discipleship? To cross-carrying? To self-denial? To separation from the world? To crucifixion of the flesh? To holy living? To hard self-discipline ? To love for God? To total committal to Christ? Of course the answer to all these questions is...No.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Winning, Self, Discipline

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• The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us, and carry out, in our ordinary conduct; the insignficances of daily life are the importances and the tests of eternity, because they prove what really is the spirit that possesses us.

  Andrew Murray

  Prayer, Humility, Trying

  Andrew Murray (2016). “Humility: The Beauty of Holiness”, p.25, Gideon House Books

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• As Elisabeth Elliot points out, not even dying a martyr’s death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died on a cross. Suddenly a martyr’s death seems like normal obedience.

  David Platt

  Faith, Death, God

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• Costly grace is the treasure hidden in the field; for the sake of it a man will gladly go and sell all he has. It is the pearl of great price to by which the merchant will sell all his goods.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Men, Grace, Treasure

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

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• If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.

  Dallas Willard

  Spiritual, Real, Assessment

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• If we are serious about our discipleship, Jesus will eventually request each of us to do those very things which are most difficult for us to do.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Jesus, Serious, Difficult

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