Inspirational Quotes on Discipleship

“Backward we are naturally to all good things, and it is a lesson of grace to learn to go forward in the ways of God.”

“Purify our minds that we may be "first pure, then peaceable," and fortify our souls, that our peaceableness may not lead us into cowardice and despair, when for Thy sake we are persecuted.”

“Down deep in His innermost soul Christ carried an inexhaustible treasury of refined and heavenly joy.”

“Be wise and attend to obeying. Let Christ manage the providing.”

“The Christian knows no change with regard to God. He may be rich to-day and poor to-morrow; he may be sickly to-day and well to-morrow; he may be in happiness to-day, to-morrow he may be distressed-but there is no change with regard to his relationship to God. If He loved me yesterday, He loves me to-day.”

“The Must be worthless by our estimation or keep us enslaved by an intemperate love of it.”

“Yanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people's stories.”

“If any have more of the government of thee than Christ, or if thou hadst rather live after any other laws than his, if it were at thy choice, thou art not his disciple (331).”

“By nature, we get more pleasure from God's gifts then from Himself.”

“We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.”

“It is not loving to impose our own grid onto others. We need to understand their situation and their needs accurately, and this comes from listening to them, not coming in with our own assumptions.”

“We are to be generous not just in the results of our work, but also IN our work.”

“The idea of waste only comes into our Christianity when we underestimate the worth of our Lord.”

“The author sees Joseph of Genesis as a type of Christ's Pentecostal power. He who was thought dead has been raised in power, and the power is evident in the chariot he sends for his own.”

“We are hardwired for glory because we are hardwired for God.”

“God answered prayers first by teaching the need to ask, second by using friends as holy messengers.”

“It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with tolerable zeal against the grain.”

“I have a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows. Now mind!”

“A faithful dependent, I overlook his folly.”

“And—you can be very sure of this—all who belong to the Lord Jesus Christ; who have seen the all-importance of the soul; who have seen their dread condition under the condemnation of the law; who have believed in Christ and His sacrificial death; who have committed themselves to Him, taking upon themselves the scorn and sarcasm of the world; those who have counted all things loss for his sake, who have denied themselves and taken up their cross daily and followed Him; those who have said, “I care not what happens to me as long as all is well between me and Him”—these are they who will be with Him in the new heaven and the new earth and will share and enjoy His glory for ever and ever.”