Discipleship Quotes - Page 6

Real life applications get tricky when we think about them.

The struggle against the weakness in yourself is never a solitary struggle. No person can achieve self-mastery or his or her own.

Shoddy work is not just shoddy work. It's a failure of love.

Tragedy cannot take place around a type. Suffering is the most individualizing thing on earth.

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

We never move on from the cross. We only get a more profound understanding of the cross.

George III was incapable of passing on a sense of mission to his son might a given some purpose to the crown prince's existence

He must become an apprentice to ordinary life.

We do not become less needy, less dependent when we pray; we become more needy, more dependent, which is to say, more human.

The formal definition of impact is a forcible contact between two things, and God has designed our lives for a collision course with the world.

The more broken you are, the more light gets through.

In Martin Luther's life and behavior is very courteous and friendly, and there is nothing of the stern stoic or grumpy fellow about him. He can adjust to all occasions. In social gathering he is gay, witty, ever full of joy, always has a bright and happy face, no matter how seriously his adversaries threatening him. One can see that God's strength is within him. – Petrus Mosellanus

Kids don't always stop to judge or analyze a new experience unless the adults around them react strongly. Otherwise, they just take in the experience and move on to the next one.

You've been told that you're broken, that you're damaged goods and should be labeled victims. I don't buy it. The truth, instead, is that you are the only folks with the skills, determination, and values to ensure American dominance in this chaotic world.

If colleges are going to justify themselves, they are going to have to thrive at those things that require physical proximity. That includes moral and spiritual development. Very few of us cultivate our souls as hermits. We do it through small groups and relationships and in social contexts.

It is easier to lose a thosuand disciples than to win over one.

Many Christians want the benefits of their belief, but they hesitate at the cost of discipleship.

The free man does what he likes in his working time and in his spare time what is required of him. The slave does what he is obliged to do in his working time and what he likes only when he is not at work.

Since we never get everything we want or need from our families, we look for sufficiency in surrogates.

Desire for and delight in God's Word are inseparable.

It is possible to feel angered by the compromises all around us, while remaining apathetic to the compromises inside us.

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

If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation.

Pandering candidates often promise that they can make the pain go away.

Nietzsche tended to equate the memorable with the painful.

Make us, Lord, in Chesterton's distinction, travelers instead of tourists. Where the tourist defines his day by the expectation of seeing certain things, give us the traveler's openness to seeing what You will reveal.

At the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of Heaven fills those who are quitting the light of Earth.

Ehimlite universities are strong at delivering their commercial mission. They are pretty strong in developing their cognitive mission. But when it comes to the sort of growth Deresiewicz is talking about, everyone is on their own. An admissions officer might bias her criteria slightly away from the Résumé God and toward the quirky kid. A student may privately wrestle with taking a summer camp job instead of an emotionally vacuous but résumé-padding internship. But these struggles are informal, isolated and semi-articulate.

Lewis spoke for almost every member when he said, "There is no sound I like better than adult male laughter.

Run your race. It's the only one that will count in eternity.

James Gordon Bennett said he aimed to be, "serious in my aims but full of frolic in my means.

The Mother Thing makes our world.

If virtue does not equal powers, powers will be misused.

Innovators "view failure not as a fatal character flaw but as a learning experience.

Prayer is the forerunner of mercy.

Better to wait actively than passively.

God’s Word is the living seed that brings new birth. It is the milk that nurtures the new life of a young Christian and the meat that builds the muscle of a mature believer.

Jesus is dangerous to society, to the status quo, and to contemporary piety. This clarity of preaching cannot be allowed to continue. It is like a cold, a virus that infects all who suffer and who love under conditions that only worsen, in a world that blames those who are poor and do not live up to religious expectations.

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

Where doest Thou feed Thy flock? In Thy house? I will go, if I may find Thee there. In private prayer? Then I will pray without ceasing. In the Word? Then I will read it diligently. In Thine ordinances? Then I will walk in them with all my heart. Tell me where Thou feedest, for wherever Thou standest as the Shepherd, there will I lie down as a sheep.

Change from despair to joy he made her extremely beautiful.

God doesn't want meerly action but hearts driving action.

Today, we have many ways of defining success in life. Some define it as being a sports hero, others as being wealthy, others as being popular and well liked, and still others as being happy. How does God define success? He defines it as being spiritually mature!

Find the good, and praise it.

I'm of the opinion and quite certain that our 'personal histories' with God are meant to be well informed by the Scriptures

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.

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature into an understanding of God’s will more quickly than others because they obey more readily; they more readily sacrifice the life of nature to the will of God.

A Christian's duty, Lewis believed, is not simply to tolerate "X" but to make life with "X" an occasion to work on one's own character flaws.

In the old days, it had been talent and style and brilliance and now it was more and more productivity.

Treat this crisis as practice for the next crisis.

A wilderness experience includes a long walk back.

Men need men to keep their edges hot and clean, whereas women keep us warm and soft.

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.

Discipling our children is not about teaching them to behave in a way that won’t embarrass us. We’re working toward something much more important than that. We’re actually raising our children with a view toward leading them to trust and to follow Christ.

Far from a source of suffering, their adopted faith had been a source of power.

Our minds must be set always to seek the will of the Lord. Following the progressive discipline revealed through the Bible will result in a walk of obedience to God.

The sweet spot is where duty and delight converge.

He who grows not in the knowledge of Jesus, refuses to be blessed.

The affair made men feel larger than life.

Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.