Christian Discipleship Quotes

#1. Nothing is more important for mature Christian discipleship than a fresh, clear, true vision of the authentic Jesus. #Quote by John R.W. Stott

#2. Your job is to abide in my pasture
Eating sweet grass and drinking pure water,
And sharing both with others -
That is a lamb's business. #Quote by Jessica Coupe

#3. Live Like a Narnian: Christian Discipleship in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles #Quote by N.D. Wilson

#4. Sing these songs, and they will renew you from head to toe, from heart to mind. Pray these poems, and they will sustain you on the long, hard but exhilarating road of Christian discipleship. #Quote by N. T. Wright

#5. At every step of our Christian development and in every sphere of our Christian discipleship, pride is the greatest enemy and humility our greatest friend. #Quote by John Stott

#6. Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth! Authentic Christian discipleship is marked by a sense of wonder. We stand before the God we know and love as a friend, the vastness of his creation, and the beauty of our Christian faith. #Quote by Pope Benedict XVI

#7. Joy is not a requirement of Christian discipleship, it is a consequence. It is not what we have to acquire in order to experience life in Christ; it is what comes to us when we are walking in the way of faith and obedience. #Quote by Eugene H. Peterson

#8. You cannot impart what you do not possess. #Quote by Howard G. Hendricks

#9. Exercise and proper eating habits are very important, since the Bible says that the body is God's holy temple, but I don't think that superbodies equate with committed Christian discipleship. Some of the greatest saints I've known have been those with physical infirmities. #Quote by Billy Graham

#10. Run your race. It's the only one that will count in eternity. #Quote by Robin M. Bertram

#11. We need to shed our unearthly and nonsocial and idealistic and romantic and uber-spiritual visions of kingdom and get back to what Jesus meant. By kingdom, Jesus means: God's Dream Society on earth, spreading out from the land of Israel to encompass the whole world. #Quote by Scot McKnight

#12. Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ. #Quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#13. Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession ... Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate. #Quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#14. Without the Holy Spirit, Christian discipleship would be inconceivable, even impossible. There can be no life without the life-giver, no understanding without the Spirit of truth, no fellowship without the unity of the Spirit, no Christlikeness of character apart from His fruit, and no effective witness without His power. As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead. #Quote by John Stott

#15. Christian discipleship is a decision to walk in his ways, steadily and firmly, and then finding that the way integrates all our interests, passions, and gifts, our human needs and eternal aspirations. It is the way of life we were created for. #Quote by Eugene H. Peterson

#16. It is only by a total death to self we can be lost in God. #Quote by Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon

#17. We cannot be truly Christian people so long as we flaunt the central teachings of Jesus: brotherly love and the Golden Rule. #Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr.

#18. We have a lowest-common-denominator Christianity being taught in so many denominations that has produced a people who simply do not know some of the most basic Christian truths. #Quote by Albert Mohler

#19. This generation must get deadly serious about the problem of Biblical illiteracy. #Quote by Albert Mohler

#20. Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we're currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity. #Quote by Charles Colson

#21. The Lord is our mighty shield.
The Lord is our greet strength. #Quote by Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less #Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee

#23. If we look into the matter of how Christian theology rose in the beginning, the Christian Church was always already earlier, and thus even now for each individual the Christian Church is earlier than theology. #Quote by Friedrich Schleiermacher

#24. There is a wonderful simple human reality to Christ's hunger. The man is famished. He's missed meals for three days, He has a lot on his mind, He's on His way back to heaven, but before He goes He is itching for a nice piece of broiled fish and a little bread on the side with the men and women He loves. Do we not like Him the more for His prandial persistance? And think for a moment about the holiness of our own food, and the ways that cooking and sharing a meal can be forms of love and prayer. And realize again that the Eucharist at the heart of stubborn Catholicism is the breakfast that Christ prepares for Catholics, every morning, as we return from fishing in vast dreamy seas? #Quote by Brian Doyle

#25. Rationale still remains the greatest impediment to encountering God's mysteries. #Quote by Christian Hunt

#26. Couples often live out years of falsehood trying to protect and save a relationship, all the while destroying any chance of real relationship. #Quote by Henry Cloud

#27. Facing our fears, skeletons, and mistakes is paramount in finding ourselves-in living with ourselves. Once it's done, that fear will be laid to rest, and she'll be stronger for having dealt with it and have more peace becausse she's not carrying the weight of that fear every day and night. #Quote by Cindy Woodsmall

#28. Islam is at once the most and the least interesting of the world's monotheisms. It builds upon its primitive Jewish and Christian predecessors, selecting a chunk here and a shard there, and thus if these fall, it partly falls also. #Quote by Christopher Hitchens

#29. Christians have long realized that the whispered name "Jesus" can bring comfort and cheer to someone suffering or bereaved, and it can bring joyful hope to the fearful or depressed heart. #Quote by Kenneth W. Osbeck

#30. No more "band psycho" stuff for me. I'm fine without it. #Quote by Christian Fennesz

#31. I was raised as a Catholic and received the body and blood of Jesus Christ every Sunday at communion until I was thirty years of age, when I became a vegetarian. #Quote by Joe Queenan

#32. Christian holiness does not being sinless, but rather it means struggling not to give in and always getting up after every fall. #Quote by Pope John Paul II

#33. The new source of divisiveness is the assault of secularism on religion. #Quote by William Bennett

#34. If we will be free indeed from the power of sinful anger, we must make a deliberate choice to continue learning and obeying God's Word; for it contains God's truth, which is our road map that leads to freedom from enslaving sin. Apart from the Word of God, we cannot and we will not grow or survive spiritually. Virtually every success in the Christian life can be traced back to knowing the Word of God; for it is the foundation on which every doctrine, every blessing, and every Christian discipline is established. #Quote by Debi Pryde

#35. Which other major religion is based on the Godhead incarnate being whipped, tacked to a cross, stabbed? Only the Marquis de Sade could have made up a sicker religion. It's no wonder that those brought up in such a culture hate life and enjoy inflicting pain. All societies are sick but some are sicker than others. Christian societies are certainly the sickest. #Quote by Gore Vidal

#36. To trifle with Scripture is to deprive yourself of its aid. Reverence it, and look up to God with devout gratitude for having given it to you. #Quote by Charles Spurgeon

#37. Worship is an inward feeling and outward action that reflects the worth of God. #Quote by John Piper

#38. And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he'd take away whatever things may hinder your salvation. #Quote by Moliere

#39. Death for [a Christian] is no accident. With God there are no accidents, no tragedies, and no catastrophes as far as His children are concerned. #Quote by Billy Graham

#40. A two-week-old ceasefire in the Central African Republic collapsed, as conflict resumed between fighters tied to Muslim and Christian militias. French troops trying to hold the ring were attacked. #Quote by Anonymous

#41. The Eucharist is the Sacrament of Love; It signifies Love, It produces love. The Eucharist is the consummation of the whole spiritual life. #Quote by Thomas Aquinas

#42. The worst that one can say of the Christian clergyman today is that he actually believes what he teaches. #Quote by Chapman Cohen

#43. For the Christian, the Bible, the Holy Spirit, guidance from trusted leaders and a revelation from your growing personal relationship with God go a long way to provide guidance. Learn to distinguish between spiritual blackmail and Godly Bible-based advice or warnings. Study your religion or belief and know it for yourself, heavy reliance on a third party for prolonged periods will sometimes open you up to possible abuse. #Quote by Archibald Marwizi

#44. Our Lord reserved to Himself certain things which He would do in due time in a manner outside the course and order of nature, so that they would wonder and be astonished at seeing not great but unusual things, who are unmoved by things daily seen. For the government of the world is a greater miracle than feeding five thousand men from five loaves; yet at the former no one wonders, the latter astonishes all men: not as a greater wonder, but as a rarer. #Quote by Saint Augustine

#45. I won't give my heart to another girl until God shows me it's my wife. #Quote by Eric Ludy

#46. It is my passion to rise to great heights, but instead I dig holes where I plummet to great depths. And when will I learn that God trades shovels for wings? #Quote by Craig D Lounsbrough

#47. Drama usually bases itself on the bedrock of original sin, whether the writer thinks in theological terms or not. Then, too, any character in a serious novel is supposed to carry a burden of meaning larger than himself. The novelist doesn't write about people in a vacuum; he writes about people in a world where something is obviously lacking, where there is the general mystery of incompleteness and the particular tragedy of our own times to be demonstrated, and the novelist tries to give you, within the form of the book, a total experience of human nature at any time.

For this reason, the greatest dramas naturally involve the salvation or loss of the soul. Where there is no belief in the soul, there is very little drama. The Christian novelist is distinguished from his pagan colleagues by recognizing sin as sin. According to his heritage, he sees it not as a sickness or an accident of the environment, but as a responsible choice of offense against God which involves his eternal future. Either one is serious about salvation or one is not. And it is well to realize that the maximum amount of seriousness admits the maximum amount of comedy.

Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe. One reason a great deal of our contemporary fictions is humorless is because so many of these writers are relativists and have to be continually justifying the actions of their characters on a sliding scale of values. #Quote by Flannery O'Connor