Favorite Quotes about Discipleship

[Sojourner1]

This thread is for everyone to post your favorite quotes about discipleship.

“The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified as ‘Christians’ will become disciples – students, apprentices, practitioners – of Jesus Christ, steadily learning from him how to live the life of the Kingdom of the Heavens into every corner of human existence.” -- Dallas Willard

 

[MustardSeeed]

“The choice we face is not, as many imagine, between heaven and hell. Rather, the choice is between heaven and this world. Even a fool would exchange hell for heaven; but only the wise will exchange this world for heaven.” - Dave Hunt

 

[ByTheSpirit]

"It is impossible to live the life of a disciple without definite times of secret prayer. You will find that the place to enter in is in your business, as you walk along the streets, in the ordinary ways of life, when no one dreams you are praying, and the reward comes openly, a revival here, a blessing there." ~ Oswald Chambers

 

[JCFantasy23]

"Our greatest and first command is to love the Lord with all our heart, soul and mind. To love God with all your heart is to set your affections on God. To love Him with all your soul is to love Him with the very core of who you are. To love Him with all your mind is to think right thoughts of God. The three of these sum up the whole of who we are."

- From Love God Greatly - You are Loved Devotional​

 

[JCFantasy23]

We should not decide how to pray based on the experiences and feelings we want. Instead, we should do everything possible to behold our God as he is, and prayer will follow. The more clearly we grasp who God is, the more our prayer is shaped and determined accordingly.

- Tim Keller

 

[JCFantasy23]

Let the mind of the Master be the Master of your mind.

- Anonymous

 

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[St_Worm2]

“The choice we face is not, as many imagine, between heaven and hell. Rather, the choice is between heaven and this world. Even a fool would exchange hell for heaven; but only the wise will exchange this world for heaven.” - Dave Hunt

Hi MS, your Dave Hunt quote reminded me (in a way) of one of A. W. Pink's, an important one to note about evangelism.

 

[Sojourner1]

"The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life." – John Ortberg

 

[Citizen of the Kingdom]

“Trying to know God and serve Him before we come to love Him is exhausting.”
― Beth Moore, To Live Is Christ

 

[Citizen of the Kingdom]

“If virtue does not equal powers, powers will be misused.”
― John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

 

[MustardSeeed]

Hi MS, your Dave Hunt quote reminded me (in a way) of one of A. W. Pink's, an important one to note about evangelism.

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I agree! I can definitely see the parallels, they compliment each other

 

[ByTheSpirit]

"Only a disciple can make a disciple." ~AW Tozer

 

[Citizen of the Kingdom]

“Who can be astonished at anything, when he has once been astonished at the manger and the cross? What is there wonderful left after one has seen the Saviour?”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon

 

[JCFantasy23]

"Sometimes we have to wait because God’s answer involves a complex set of occurrences that have to happen first.

Sometimes we wait because God, knowing us better than we know ourselves, sees that we need to wait.

Sometimes we wait because we are too immature for the gift that he will give.

What Scripture makes clear is that you can trust God’s brain and his arm and his heart."

- Devotions from Time of Grace

 

[ByTheSpirit]

"Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.” ~ Andrew Murray

 

[JCFantasy23]

"Your mind was designed to think of God, and your soul was designed to be indwelt by God."

- Les Wheeldon

"In creation we see God’s hand; in redemption we see His heart."

- David McCasland

 

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