True discipleship is for volunteers only. Only volunteers…

“God’s call to his people (then and now) is to combine spirituality with bravery. True discipleship is radical and risk-taking, because true disciples rely…

— Timothy J. Keller

“True Discipleship makes a man and woman a project or an portrait painting to completion With a careful detail and awareness of every stroke…

— Apostle Louis Gordon Jr

No matter how high the powers of reason, no matter how deep the intellect, no one can discover God's secret messages without paying the…

— Winkie Pratney

The dues of discipleship are high indeed, and how much we can take so often determines how much we can then give.

— Neal A. Maxwell

The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power: but the…

— Edward Gibbon

Sometimes, when I get a good picture, it feels like I have taken another nervous step into increasingly rarified air. Each good-news picture, no…

— Sally Mann

I at once commenced the ascent through a shower of arrows.

— George Crook

There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The growth of all the plants of the garden from seeds and roots keep us mindful, in accordance with of the Parable of the…

— John Stokes

As I express my gratitude, I become more deeply aware of it. And the greater my awareness, the greater my need to express it.…

— David Steindl-Rast

The real goal of a spiritual tradition should not be ascent, but openness, vulnerability, and this does not require great experiences but, on the…

— Morris Berman

The member of a culture ... purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized. ... He is embarrassed…

— Richard M. Weaver

No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is certain that…

— Carl Jung

Without shedding of blood there is no anything. Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by selfsacrifice. Our race has marked every…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

The ascent of any route begins, in dreams at least, the autumn before. Our minds ring, involuntarily, with the alluring names of mountains, aiguilles,…

— Gaston Rebuffat