Discipleship Quotes - Page 6

• The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something. And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like the truth at all because it carries responsibility, and if I actually believe these things I have to do something about them. It is so, so cumbersome to believe anything. And it isn't cool.

  Donald Miller

  Selfish, Believe, Responsibility

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.107, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Love Is, Judging Yourself, Judging Others

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

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• In the gospel of Jesus, sincere and costly discipleship always accompanies genuine conversion. The gospel of Jesus teaches men that a mere profession of faith alone is no sound evidence of salvation.

  Paul Washer

  Jesus, Men, Sound

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• Our Lord never lays down the conditions of discipleship as the conditions of salvation.

  Oswald Chambers

  Lord, Salvation, Lays

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Called of God: Extracts from My Utmost for His Highest on the Missionary Call”, p.15, Discovery House

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• In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit, a capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship, we are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.

  Alan Hirsch

  Order, Innovation, Needs

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.96, Baker Books

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• Discipleship means adherence to Christ and, because Christ is the object of that adherence, it must take the form of discipleship. An abstract theology, a doctrinal system, a general religious knowledge of the subject of grace or the forgiveness of sins, render discipleship superfluous, and in fact exclude any idea of discipleship whatsoever, and are essentially inimical to the whole conception of following Christ....Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Religious, Mean, Following Christ

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• Your love for Jesus Christ and your discipleship in His cause must be the consuming preoccupation and passion of your mortality.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Jesus, Passion, Causes

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• We see baptism as the starting point in our journey of discipleship. Our daily walk with Jesus Christ leads to peace and purpose in this life and profound joy and eternal salvation in the world to come.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Journey, Profound

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• The dues of discipleship are high indeed, and how much we can take so often determines how much we can then give.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Giving, Determine, Dues

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• Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations

  Oswald Chambers

  Bible, Baptism, Ecumenism

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “So Send I You / Workmen Of God: Recognizing and Answering God's Call to Service”, p.137, Discovery House

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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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• 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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• It's a sin to bore people with the Bible.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Epic, People, Sin

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• My greatest fear is not your failure, but your success.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Epic, Greatest Fear

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• At this time there was a wise man who was called Jesus. And his conduct was good, and [he] was known to be virtuous. And many people from among the Jews and the other nations became his disciples. Pilate condemned him to be crucified and to die. And those who had become his disciples did not abandon his discipleship.

  Josephus

  Wise, Jesus, Men

  "An Arabic version of the Testimonium Flavianum and its implications".

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• I have a word for you. I know your whole life story. I know every skeleton in your closet. I know every moment of sin, shame, dishonesty and degraded love that has darkened your past. Right now I know your shallow faith, your feeble prayer life, your inconsistent discipleship. And my word is this: I dare you to trust that I love you just as you are, and not as you should be. Because you’re never going to be as you should be.

  Brennan Manning

  Prayer, Love You, Past

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• Most people don't think, they just rearrange their prejudices.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Epic, Thinking, People

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• Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves

  Horace Bushnell

  Moving, Blood, Soul

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• God wants you to find your way back to Him, and the Savior is the way. God wants you to learn of His Son, Jesus Christ, and experience the profound peace and joy that come from following the path of divine discipleship.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Son, Profound

  "Receiving a Testimony of Light and Truth". General Conference, www.lds.org. October 2014.

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• With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps even to put it into practice; but it can never be followed in personal obedience. Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Practice, Ideas, Christianity

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

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• The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ. Such a man knows that the call to discipleship is a gift of grace, and that the call is inseparable from the grace. But those who try to use this grace as a dispensation from following Christ are simply deceiving themselves.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Men, Following Christ, Grace

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• Discipleship' as a term has lost its content, and this is one reason why it has been moved aside. I've tried to redeem the idea of discipleship, and I think it can be done; you have to get it out of the contemporary mode.

  Dallas Willard

  Thinking, Ideas, Done

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• Genuine Christianity is more than a relationship with Jesus, as expressed in personal piety, church attendance, Bible
  study, and works of charity. It is more than discipleship, more than believing a system of doctrines about God. Genuine Christianity is a way of seeing and comprehending all reality. It is a worldview.

  Charles Colson

  Jesus, Believe, Reality

  Charles Colson, Nancy Pearcey (2011). “How Now Shall We Live?”, p.37, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Promptings for us to do good come from the Holy Ghost. These promptings nudge us further along the straight and narrow path of discipleship. The natural man doesn't automatically think of doing good. It isn't natural. How many people worry about the car behind them or the person below them? The natural man just doesn't do it. For us, however, these promptings enlarge our awareness of other people's needs and then prod us to act accordingly.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Men, Thinking, People

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• But discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ...Christ speaks to us exactly as he spoke to them. It was not as though they first recognized him as the Christ and then received his command. They believed his word and command and recognized him as the Christ--in that order.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Order, Decision

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