Inspirational Quotes on Discipleship

“Christianity tells a big story. It allows us to see our own story in a new way.”

“Thomas Merton writes that if we have meditated on the events of the Passion but have not meditated on Dachau and Auschwitz, our perception of God at work in present times is incomplete.”

“God's way leads always into trial, so far as sight and sense are concerned. Nature always will be tried in God's ways.”

“There is nothing Christ dislikes more than for His people to make a showpiece of Him and not to use Him.”

“The cross always simultaneously means rejection, and that the disgrace of suffering is part of the cross. Being expelled, despised, and abandoned by people in one's suffering is part of the cross. Being expelled, despised, and abandoned by people in one's suffering, as we find in the unending lament of the psalmist, is an essential feature of the suffering of the cross, yet one no longer comprehensible to a form of Christian life unable to distinguish between bourgeois and Christian existence.”

“The little estimate we put on prayer is evidence from the little time we give to it.”

“The most precious gifts you can think of are not ends in themselves. They all lead to God. Ultimately, that is what all His gifts are for.”

“We ascribe to God. We don't add to Him.”

“There will be no fear of your becoming lethargic if you are continually familiar with internal realities.”

“It is not a brave thing to trust God. To true believers, it is a sweet necessity.”

“A graceless pastor is a blind man elected to a professorship of optics.”

“A brother's sympathy is more precious than an angel's embassy.”

“You will find it a stronghold in the day of trial to plead your adoption. You have no rights as a subject, you have forfeited them by your treason; but nothing can forfeit a child's right to a father's protection.”

“Morning dawns when the grace overcomes nature.”

“To give to others is but sowing seed for ourselves.”

“The more loftily we see Christ enthroned, and the more lowly we are when bowing before the foot of the throne, the more truly shall we be prepared to act our part towards Him.”

“Every place is now God's temple, and His people can as truly serve Him in their daily employments as in His house. They are to be always "ministering," offering the spiritual sacrifice of prayer and praise, and presenting themselves a "living sacrifice.”

“We reign over the united kingdom of time and eternity”

“See, loving heart, how He delights in you. When you lean your head on His bosom, you not only receive, but you give Him joy; when you gaze with love upon His all-glorious face, you not only obtain comfort, but impart delight.”

“To a great extent in spiritual things we get what we expect of the Lord. Faith alone can bring us to see Jesus.”