Discipleship Quotes - Page 4

Their lifelong love of learning, their remarkable wide-ranging intellectual curiosity, was fostered primarily by their father. He read aloud to them at night, eliciting their responses to works of history and literature. He organized amateur plays for them, encourage pursuit of special interests, prompted them to write essays on their readings, and urge them to recite poetry.

John D Rockefeller read his Bible religiously, but kept his ledger in a different drawer.

It takes a while for revelry to turn to reverence, and much repetition of truth to eventual turn young zeal into habitual channels for good.

All relationships are teleological, are going somewhere.

I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that it is authentic.

Prison does not silence ideas whose time has come.

Our nearness to the king in love is nearness to those who love not the king.

Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study.

In the context of today, this WAS heroism.

If a church is good at making disciples it will be good at making leaders because in the end, a good spiritual formation plan will lead to an accelerated spiritual multiplication.

It's much easier to talk about following Jesus when you are making general statements rather than specific commitments.

The Book that made the nation was destroying the nation.

Abiding time is extravagant daily time with Jesus. This extravagant time is the center of abiding. Not legalism, not dry discipline, not manufactured spirituality, but joyous soaking in the presence of Jesus, lavish spending of time with Him who is most precious, Him from whom all life flows. In a world that is over-connected yet lonely, frantically busy yet accomplishing little of eternal value, super-informed but egregiously ignorant on what really matters, abiding gives Jesus the best of our time, in which He leads us to the best of times.

The intensity of the love of the upright is not so much to be judged by what it appears as by what the upright long for. It is our daily lament that we cannot love enough.

I suppose it's unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C.S.) Lewis does, what I feel is a craftsman's joy at the sight of a superior performance.

The cross is a crisis point for all societies which seek to produce me in and women of quiescence, men and women who are trained to give unquestioning, uncritical obedience to worldly powers and not to Christ.

The affair made men feel larger than life.

I assumed my first undivided responsibility.

A continual diet of the Word satisfies, and it builds an appetite for more.

He could tune her, bringing out her better instincts and filtering out her lesser ones.

you turn into a shrewd tactician, making a series of cautious semicommitments without really surrendering to some larger purpose. You lose the ability to say a hundred noes for the sake of one overwhelming and fulfilling yes.

Drivers should not drive more than a minute without having a (purposefully-designed) curve.

The one indispensable requirement for producing godly, mature Christians is godly, mature Christians.

You are my Beloved, on you my favor rests.' It certainly is not easy to hear that voice in a world filled with voices that shout: 'You are no good, you are ugly; you are worthless; you are despicable, you are nobody- unless you can demonstrate the opposite.' These negative voices are so loud and so persistent that it is easy to believe them. That's the great trap. It is the trap of self-rejection.