Inspirational Quotes on Discipleship

“In the sympathy of Christ we find a sustaining power.”

“Why do we calculate our forces, and consult with flesh and blood to our grievous wounding? Jehovah has power enough without borrowing from our puny arm.”

“No sooner is there a good thing in the world, than a division is necessary.”

“This child-like spirit soon perceives the grandeur of the Father "in heaven," and ascends to devout adoration, "Hallowed be Thy name." The child lisping, "Abba, Father," grows into the cherub crying, "Holy, Holy, Holy.”

“There is a wide distinction between confessing sin as a culprit, and confessing sin as a child. The Father's bosom is the place for penitent confessions.”

“Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord Jesus in glory.”

“Alas! it is but little we have done for our Master's glory. Our winter has lasted all too long. We are as cold as ice when we should feel a summer's glow and bloom with sacred flowers.”

“I serve," should be the motto of all the princes of the royal family of heaven.”

“If thou rememberest that thou art going to heaven, thou wilt not sleep on the road. If thou thinkest that hell is behind thee, and the devil pursuing thee, thou wilt not loiter.”

“What we are taught to seek or shun in prayer, we should equally pursue or avoid in action. Very earnestly, therefore, should we avoid temptation, seeking to walk so guardedly in the path of obedience, that we may never tempt the devil to tempt us.”

“Contentment is not a power that may be exercised naturally, but a science to be acquired gradually.”

“He who grows not in the knowledge of Jesus, refuses to be blessed.”

“Peace between good and evil is an impossibility; the very pretence of it would, in fact, be the triumph of the powers of darkness.”

“Believers are also trained in obedience by means of the cross. For thus they are taught to live according to God's will rather than their own. If everything went according to their own plans, they would never know what it means to follow God.”

“The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.”

“Salvation is the creation of new desires, not just new goodies.”

“The fight for joy is first and always a fight to see.”

“Good disciplemaking requires both intentionality and relationality. It means being strategic and being social. Most of us are bent one way or the other. We’re naturally relational, but lacking in intentionality. Or we find it easy to be intentional, but not relational. We typically tip (or sometimes lean) one way or the other as we begin the disciplemaking process. But tipping and leaning won’t cover the full picture of what life-on-life disciplemaking requires. It’s not just friend-to-friend, and it’s not just teacher-to-student. It’s both. There is the sharing of ordinary life (relationship) and seeking to initiate and make the most of teachable moments (intentionality). There are the long walks through Galilee and the sermons on the mount. Disciplemaking is both organic and engineered, relational and intentional, with shared context and shared content, quality and quantity time.”

“Shoddy work is not just shoddy work. It's a failure of love.”

“The only way to be productive is to realize we don't HAVE TO be productive. Our goal is to PLEASE God, not APPEASE God.”