Discipleship Quotes - Page 4

God never loses sight of the treasure which He has placed in our earthen vessels.

It was too late for he and his father to have an adventure, and NOTHING seemed to have any color anymore.

Prison does not silence ideas whose time has come.

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

We have created a culture of leadership "development" in the Church at the expense of ignore the ministry of the Church to making disciples.

If God declares that all is well, ten thousand devils may declare it to be ill, but we laugh them all to scorn. Blessed be God for a faith which enables us to believe God when the creatures contradict Him.

I cannot read God's mind, however I can read God's Word.

One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime. Nor is surrender to the will of God (per se) adequate to fullness of power in Christ. Maturity is the accomplishment of years, and I can only surrender to the will of God as I know what that will is.

A student is engaging, attentive, notes details, and shows effort in learning.

You can either be god of certain areas of your life, or let Me be God of your whole life.

Survivor" is not a label you choose for yourself.

let anyone using those weasel words “freedom of worship” know, they have “freedom of worship” in China and it is meaningless and it is vile. “Freedom of worship” says you may do what you like in that building on Sunday mornings or whenever you like, but when you come out you will bow to the secular orthodoxy of the state. That is the antithesis of what the Founders meant in guaranteeing “freedom of religion.

Your children are going through life with their eyes closed, so YOU'RE the one who has to steer.

We listened, as all boys in their better moods will listen (ay, and men too for the matter of that), to a man whom we felt to be, with all his heart and soul and strength, striving against whatever was mean and unmanly and unrighteous in our little world. It was not the cold, clear voice of one giving advice and warning from serene heights to those who were struggling and sinning below, but the warm, living voice of one who was fighting for us and by our sides, and calling on us to help him and ourselves and one another.

Our ferocious commitment to our children's safety and success, along with our genuine love, drives us to endure the often unhappy experience of disciplining our children.

The speaker says one of the blessings of the family of God is that the enthusiasm of children influences their elders while experience seasons the younger members.

The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us, and carry out, in our ordinary conduct; the insignficances of daily life are the importances and the tests of eternity, because they prove what really is the spirit that possesses us.

Some people will not make the decision to give Jesus love back no matter how great his love is. These folks are who I call “grace users”. They just take advantage of the Lord’s love and kindness. True disciples will love the Lord back. When someone truly opens their heart and falls in love with Jesus, wanting to be his disciple will come naturally to them. Christ’s love is compelling.

I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.

Whenever Christ calls us, his call leads us to death.

Any serious reading of the Bible means personal involvement in it, not symbol mental agreement with abstract propositions. And involvement is dangerous, because it leaves one open to unforeseen conclusions.

I wanted to explain so much to him at that moment, but you can't give a six-year-old the perspective of a 40-year-old, not really, so I gave him the short course.

Politics is not leadership. It never has been. It never will be.

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

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.

Push the needle into some middle range of guarded optimism.

Many of your relationship problems are not really relationship problems. They're personal problems that spill over into relationships.

There was no keenness in the eyes; they seemed rather to be shedding love than making observations; they had the liquid look which tells that the mind is full of what it has to give out, rather than impressed by external objects.

Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.

What God did for Jesus in standing up for Him, standing behind Him in life and in death, and in standing in communion and solidarity with Him, the Father also does for us, here and now, in our lives.

Paul looked down at the hand that had known pain, and then up to the Reverend Mother. The sound of her voice contained a difference than from any other voicing his experience. The words were outlined in brilliance. There was an edge to them.

So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold those opinions about.

A question is far more subversive, biblically, than a statement.

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

The thing you do with a boy it is to show him all the to show. Don't hold nothing back.

Jesus loved manhood so much, that He delighted to honour it; and since it is a high honour, and indeed, the greatest dignity of manhood, that Jesus is the Son of man,

The problem with spiritual procrastination is the uncertain time of the deadline.

Expositing. John 14, the speaker explains that the Holy Spirit making His home with us involves Him exposing other areas of our lives for repentance, regeneration, and renewal.

Jesus, Willard says, “does not call us to do what he did, but to be as he was, permeated with love. Then the doing of what he did and said becomes the natural expression of who we are in him.

Making disciples of Jesus is the overflow of the delight in being disciples of Jesus.

I can't say I ever remember getting less than a whole child in my 29 years here.They come in whole and I teach 'em that way.

Hurt is a great teacher, maybe the greatest of all.

I liked to put young and old in the same room, because they would certainly have different takes on the same problem.

The Lord teaches us of His grace and the Gospel through difficult children. We learn what it's like to love like He loved. It is there, in our personal upper room, where we learn to wash the feet of those that are betraying us. It is there, kneeling before our rebellious children, that the real power of God is demonstrated.

we all want to be called servants until someone treats us like one.

Character is the main object of education.

Don't make peace with the sin in your life.

Counseling is ultimately not about the counselee or the counselor, but about the Divine Counselor.

Like the hub of a wheel, the church’s corporate life is an extension of the good news that God was in Christ reconciling the whole world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them.

True knowledge of God is born out of obedience.

God trains His soldiers, not in tents of ease and luxury, but by turning them out and using them to forced marches and hard service. He makes them ford through streams, and swim through rivers, and climb mountains, and walk many a long mile with heavy knapsacks of sorrow on their backs.

It is in my internal and external struggles, when it feels like someone is river-dancing on my last nerve, that the fruit of the Spirit is developed.

If you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because he himself is the way.

When we get to Heaven, we can try a monarchy, perhaps." John Hay

Peace is one of the most obvious earmarks of the authority of Christ.

Never base motivation or fear, entirely.

Cause every task of your day to be a sacred ministry to the Lord. however mundane your duties, for you they are a sacrament.

Most principles are limp until they are tested.

Sometimes the right thing to do will cost us our greatest sacrifices, but the rewards will always outweigh our losses

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