Discipleship Quotes

My greatest fear is not your failure, but your success.

— Howard G. Hendricks

“Treat this crisis as practice for the next crisis.”

— John Parenti

“Character is the main object of education.”

— Mary Wooley

“His eyes touched lightly, and passed on.”

— Davis Bunn

Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

— Robin M. Bertram

Salvation is free, but discipleship costs everything we have

— Billy Graham

“A wilderness experience includes a long walk back.”

— Dennis Garvin

“Our nearness to the king in love is nearness to those who love not the king.”

— William Shakespeare

“There are only three ways to teach a child. The first is by example, the second is by example, the third is…

— Albert Schweitzer

“Jesus said his disciples would be known for their love, not for their placards of protest and angry letters to the editor.”

— Brian Zahnd

When God measures a man he puts the tape around the heart, not the head.

— Howard G. Hendricks

“Discipleship is not a human offer. The call alone creates the situation.”

— Rodney Combs

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

— Sinclair Lewis

Live Like a Narnian: Christian Discipleship in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles

— N.D. Wilson

“You should train disciples and followers to work and perform better than you did”

— Sunday Adelaja

“We are afraid of religion because it interprets rather than observance. Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the…

— Dorothee Sölle

“We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be given) "certain things for…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Suffering, then, is the badge of true discipleship. The disciple is not above his master. Following Christ means passio passiva, suffering because…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The Bible tells us that the small groups in New Testament times pursued the biblical purposes of fellowship, discipleship, ministry, evangelism, and…

— Steve Gladen

“Discipleship-the effort both to be a disciple and to make other disciples-is about the immense value of God at work in one…

— Bill Hull

“What God did for Jesus in standing up for Him, standing behind Him in life and in death, and in standing in…

— Megan McKenna

“The road that leads to heaven is risky, lonely, and costly in this world, and few are willing to pay the price.…

— David Platt

Thinking that education is something different from discipling our children is a sure sign that we have been 'educated' by the state.…

— R. C. Sproul, Jr

With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“In our culture of “seeker sensitivity” and radical inclusivity, the great temptation is to compromise the cost of discipleship in order to…

— Shane Claiborne

“let anyone using those weasel words “freedom of worship” know, they have “freedom of worship” in China and it is meaningless and…

— Eric Metaxas

“To prefer to be the servant rather than the lord of the household is the path of downward mobility in an upwardly…

— Brennan Manning

What you present as the gospel will determine what you present as discipleship. If you present as the gospel what is essentially…

— Dallas Willard

“Many beginners also at times possess great spiritual avarice. They hardly ever seem content with the spirit God gives them. They become…

— Juan de la Cruz

“Jesus is dangerous to society, to the status quo, and to contemporary piety. This clarity of preaching cannot be allowed to continue.…

— Megan McKenna

It is possible to know all about doctrine and yet not know Jesus. The soul is in danger when knowledge of doctrine…

— Oswald Chambers

“The motherhood to which every Christian woman is called is making disciples of all nations. We all must labor, prayerfully expectant that…

— Gloria Furman

“in our younger days we actually thought that discipleship would get easier as we grew older and more mature; but the reality…

— Anonymous

“Why do so many today want to wander off to South Africa or Kenya or India or Russia or Honduras or Costa…

— Scot McKnight

“Everything we do and say will either underline or undermine our discipleship process. As long as there is one unsaved person on…

— Steve Murrell

“And what does the text inform us about the content of discipleship? Follow me, run along behind me! That is all. To…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The pursuit of God is not a part-time, weekend exercise. If it is, chances are you will experience a part-time, weekend freedom.…

— R. C. Sproul

In every Magical, or similar system, it is invariably the first condition which the Aspirant must fulfill: he must once and for…

— Aleister Crowley

“Abiding time is extravagant daily time with Jesus. This extravagant time is the center of abiding. Not legalism, not dry discipline, not…

— Missionaries Who Love The Arab World