Quotes on Discipleship
Christian quotes on Discipleship — with author, dates and source, from two millennia of Christian thought.
Jesus calls us not to a new religion, but to life.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Prayer does not equip us for greater works – prayer is the greater work.
Oswald Chambers
In a sense, learning to follow Jesus is simply learning to pray the Lord’s Prayer.
N.T. Wright
Being a Christian is not a 'do-it-yourself' affair.
Jerry Bridges
God has not called us to success, only to faithfulness.
Mother Teresa
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
Jim Elliot
Do not be afraid of Christ. He demands nothing and he gives everything.
Pope Benedict XVI
A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent.
C.S. Lewis
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, “All right, then, have it your way.”
C.S. Lewis
I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him. I ended up by asking Him to do His work through me.
Hudson Taylor
It is not your business to succeed, but to do right: when you have done so, the rest lies with God.
C.S. Lewis
Trying to do the Lord’s work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.
Corrie ten Boom
The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Mother Teresa
The man who drives the plow looks neither back nor into immeasurable distances, but at the next step he must take; looking back is not a Christian thing. Leave fear, sorrow, and guilt behind. But look to the one who has given you a new beginning.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
They called us mad for going among cannibals, but there is no safer place to be than in the will of God.
John Gibson Paton
Late have I loved you, beauty so ancient and so new.
Augustine of Hippo
Where would we end up // if everyone said // where would we end up // and no one went // to see for once // where one would end up // if one went.
Kurt Marti
Never once did Jesus scan the room for the best example of holy living and send that person out to tell others about him. He always sent stumblers and sinners. I find that comforting.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.
Martin Luther King Jr.
And yet I decide, every day, to set aside what I can do best and attempt what I do very clumsily--open myself to the frustrations and failures of loving, daring to believe that failing in love is better than succeeding in pride.
Eugene Peterson
We do not want to be beginners [at prayer]. but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners, all our life!
Thomas Merton
Our Lord's example is our example, not only on Calvary but in the workshop, on the road, in the crowd, amid interruptions, amid opposition, amid the lack of quiet and privacy, amid constant demands.
C.S. Lewis
Christ did not come into the world so that we might comprehend him, but so that we might cling to him, that we might simply let ourselves be swept along into the tremendous event of the resurrection.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Live what you have grasped of the Gospel, however little it may be.
Brother Roger
Being a Christian does not mean straining hard by yourself, but entrusting yourself to the pierced hands of Jesus.
Corrie ten Boom
When Jesus commands us to love our enemies, he himself gives us the love he demands of us.
Corrie ten Boom
Whoever lets Christ enter into their life loses nothing, nothing at all, absolutely nothing of what makes life free, beautiful, and great.
Pope Benedict XVI
Christianity is not a teaching but a communication of existence. Christ appointed no lecturers, but followers.
Søren Kierkegaard
True discipleship does not come about by preaching: You shall follow God; but by preaching what God has done for me. If a person grasps and feels this deeply and truly, how infinitely much it is, discipleship already follows.
Søren Kierkegaard
In short, the Savior should sparkle out of our eyes, so that people see that he lives in us!
Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf
Everyone enters discipleship alone, but no one remains alone in discipleship.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A lot of people think that Christianity is you doing all the righteous things you hate and avoiding all the wicked things you love in order to go to Heaven. No, that's a lost man with religion. A Christian is a person whose heart has been changed; they have new affections.
Paul Washer
Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Christian is a person who makes it easy for others to believe in God.
Robert Murray McCheyne
If you will bear the cross, it will bear you.
Robert Murray McCheyne
Moralism says to unbelievers, “Be what you are not.” Christianity says to believers, “Be what you are.”
Alistair Begg
Since He looked upon me my heart is not my own, He hath run away to heaven with it.
Samuel Rutherford
The essence of loving living as a follower of Jesus isn’t in trying harder but in enjoying more. I’m not saying you can change without trying. I’m saying that enjoyment empowers effort. Pleasure in God is the power for purity.
Sam Storms
There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Worldliness is whatever makes sin look normal and righteousness look strange.
Kevin DeYoung
People quoted here
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Oswald Chambers, N.T. Wright, Jerry Bridges, Mother Teresa, Jim Elliot, Pope Benedict XVI, C.S. Lewis, Hudson Taylor, Corrie ten Boom, John Gibson Paton, Augustine of Hippo
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