Inspirational Quotes on Discipleship

“The knowledge worker cannot be supervised closely or in detail. He must direct himself toward performance and contribution”

“The worst things of Christ, His reproaches, His cross, are better than Egypt's treasures.”

“If we buy into the church culture of celebrity, we drift away from following Jesus faithfully.”

“Lewis is like a gateway, making the riches of Deep Church more accessible.”

“His eyes touched lightly, and passed on.”

“Alex had cooked, and coaxed, and helped Mark form borders around the shapeless days. Alex had given meaning to the word "servant".”

“I assumed my first undivided responsibility.”

“I found myself with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause.”

“I work pretty hard for a sufficient living, and therefore – yes, I do well.”

“Describing the relationship between the biblical witnesses and the theologians who come after, the author challenges that the theologian is not to correct the notebooks of the biblical writers like some high school teacher. Instead, our theology is always subject to what THEY say, as we willingly submit our notebooks for their approval.”

“Spiritual disciplines answer the shallow world.”

“Prayer, it is rightly said, is the method of genuine theological research, the method of understanding what and who God is.”

“As much as Henry Kissinger wanted to attribute historical movement to impersonal forces, he too conceded to "the difference personalities make".”

“Give diligence if you would get assurance.”

“The Church, like her head, has a glory, but it is concealed from carnal eyes, for the time of her breaking forth in all her splendour is not yet come.”

“The world commands our desire for purity but bids that we not be too precise about it.”

“We entertain God's Truth not as a guest but as master of the house.”

“How shall we ever help a Christian brother and set him straight in his difficulty and doubt, if not with God's own Word? All our own words quickly fail.”

“Holy Suffering "Choosing to suffer means that there must be something wrong with you, but choosing God's will - even if it means you will suffer - is something very different...and no saint should ever dare to interfere with the lesson of suffering being taught in another saint's life...the people used to strengthen us are never those who sympathize with us; in fact, we are hindered by those who give us sympathy, because sympathy only serves to weaken us...Jesus said self-pity was of the devil (Matthew 16:21-23: 'Get thee behind me, Satan!') Look at God's incredible waste of His saints, according to the world's judgement. God seems to plant His saints in the most useless places...Jesus never measured His life by how or where He was of greatest use. God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.”

“Tasks don't have to be high-impact to be worthy of high effort. Most things we do in any given day are relatively low impact. The cumulative impact of thousands of low-impact test is huge. These tasks can be transposed into worship.”