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title: "Best Discipleship Sayings"
description: "Browse 545 Discipleship quotes by 272 authors. Discover the best Discipleship sayings and thoughts."
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> [“Most principles are limp until they are tested.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-brookhiser/most-principles-are-limp-until-they-are-tested/)

[Richard Brookhiser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-brookhiser/)

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> [You never graduate from the school of discipleship.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-g-hendricks/you-never-graduate-from-the-school-of-discipleship/)

[Howard G. Hendricks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-g-hendricks/)

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> [“A wilderness experience includes a long walk back.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-garvin/a-wilderness-experience-includes-a-long-walk-back/)

[Dennis Garvin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-garvin/)

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> [Salvation is free, but discipleship costs everything we have](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/billy-graham/salvation-is-free-but-discipleship-costs-everything-we-have/)

[Billy Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/billy-graham/)

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> [My greatest fear is not your failure, but your success.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-g-hendricks/my-greatest-fear-is-not-your-failure-but-your-success/)

[Howard G. Hendricks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-g-hendricks/)

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> [“Character is the main object of education.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wooley/character-is-the-main-object-of-education/)

Mary Wooley

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> [“Treat this crisis as practice for the next crisis.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-parenti/treat-this-crisis-as-practice-for-the-next-crisis/)

John Parenti

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> [“Discipline leads us to desire, which matures into delight.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/missionaries-who-love-the-arab-world/discipline-leads-us-to-desire-which-matures-into-delight/)

Missionaries Who Love The Arab World

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> [“We must say yes to the gospel, and that yes is manifested in life as lived daily; or we can say no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacquelyn-grant/we-must-say-yes-to-the-gospel-and-that-yes-is-manifested-in-life-as/)

Jacquelyn Grant

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> [“Men need men to keep their edges hot and clean, whereas women keep us warm and soft.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rohr/men-need-men-to-keep-their-edges-hot-and-clean-whereas-women-keep-us/)

[Richard Rohr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rohr/)

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> [“Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rohr/our-wounds-are-the-only-thing-humbling-enough-to-break-our-attachment/)

[Richard Rohr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rohr/)

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> [“Redemption came as a wave of relief, but then it followed with a burden.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/building-429/redemption-came-as-a-wave-of-relief-but-then-it-followed-with-a-burden/)

Building 429

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> [After death something new begins, over which all powers of the world of death have no more might.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dietrich-bonhoeffer/after-death-something-new-begins-over-which-all-powers-of-the-world/)

[Dietrich Bonhoeffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dietrich-bonhoeffer/)

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> [Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/middle-aged-people-can-balance-between-believing-in-god-and-breaking/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“Discipleship is commitment to Christ. Because Christ exists, he must be followed.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dietrich-bonhoeffer/discipleship-is-commitment-to-christ-because-christ-exists-he-must-be/)

[Dietrich Bonhoeffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dietrich-bonhoeffer/)

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> [“Discipleship is not a program we launch, but a lifestyle we embrace.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-hayashi/discipleship-is-not-a-program-we-launch-but-a-lifestyle-we-embrace/)

Jonathan Hayashi

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> [“I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to share…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-zinsser/i-never-think-of-him-as-a-scholar-assaulting-me-with-how-much-he/)

[William Zinsser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-zinsser/)

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> [Conversion does not make us perfect, but it does catapult us into a total experience of discipleship that affects - and infects…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-j-foster/conversion-does-not-make-us-perfect-but-it-does-catapult-us-into-a/)

[Richard J. Foster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-j-foster/)

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> [“Contrary to Western evangelicalism’s obsession with the individual, discipleship is and always was a group project. No one in the New Testament…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-stetzer/contrary-to-western-evangelicalism-s-obsession-with-the-individual/)

[Ed Stetzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-stetzer/)

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> [Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-c-ryle/obedience-is-the-only-reality-it-is-faith-visible-faith-acting-and/)

[J. C. Ryle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-c-ryle/)

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> [The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-soul-is-torn-apart-in-a-painful-condition-as-long-as-it-prefers/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Old-fashioned, Spirit-filled, Christ-honoring, sin-hating, soul-winning, Bible-preaching. It is the hope of the church. It is the hope of the nation. It is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-hyles/old-fashioned-spirit-filled-christ-honoring-sin-hating-soul-winning/)

[Jack Hyles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-hyles/)

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> [“God’s call to his people (then and now) is to combine spirituality with bravery. True discipleship is radical and risk-taking, because true…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-j-keller/god-s-call-to-his-people-then-and-now-is-to-combine-spirituality-with/)

[Timothy J. Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-j-keller/)

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> [“It takes a while for revelry to turn to reverence, and much repetition of truth to eventual turn young zeal into habitual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elisabeth-elliot/it-takes-a-while-for-revelry-to-turn-to-reverence-and-much-repetition/)

[Elisabeth Elliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elisabeth-elliot/)

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> [“When a person is evoked for who she is, not who she is not, the most often result will be the inner…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/when-a-person-is-evoked-for-who-she-is-not-who-she-is-not-the-most/)

[Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brennan-manning/)

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> [“Evangelism cant be our focus! We must not stop sharing the good news, but here’s the deal, here’s the wonderful thing, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-hirsch/evangelism-cant-be-our-focus-we-must-not-stop-sharing-the-good-news/)

[Alan Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-hirsch/)

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> [“His Majesty has done absolutely nothing but waste his time darling around eating sweets, contributing to the boy's adolescent chubiness, and to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-emmerson/his-majesty-has-done-absolutely-nothing-but-waste-his-time-darling/)

[Charles Emmerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-emmerson/)

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> [Dallas Willard warns us too of the "cost of non-discipleship." We may be able to live with some pain, but when our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dallas-willard/dallas-willard-warns-us-too-of-the-cost-of-non-discipleship-we-may-be/)

[Dallas Willard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dallas-willard/)

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> [“This last journey itself teaches the disciples that to follow Jesus means to walk the way of the cross. Jesus speaks sharply…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/craig-g-bartholomew/this-last-journey-itself-teaches-the-disciples-that-to-follow-jesus/)

[Craig G. Bartholomew](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/craig-g-bartholomew/)

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> [“The desire we so often hear expressed today for “episcopal figures,” “priestly men,” “authoritative personalities” springs frequently enough from a spiritually sick…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dietrich-bonhoeffer/the-desire-we-so-often-hear-expressed-today-for-episcopal-figures/)

[Dietrich Bonhoeffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dietrich-bonhoeffer/)

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> [Any objection to the carryings on of our present gold-calf Christianity is met with the triumphant reply, ‘But we are winning them!’…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aiden-wilson-tozer/any-objection-to-the-carryings-on-of-our-present-gold-calf/)

[Aiden Wilson Tozer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aiden-wilson-tozer/)

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> [The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-farrar-capon/the-reason-for-not-going-out-and-sinning-all-you-like-is-the-same-as/)

[Robert Farrar Capon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-farrar-capon/)

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> [“And what does the text inform us about the content of discipleship? Follow me, run along behind me! That is all. To…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dietrich-bonhoeffer/and-what-does-the-text-inform-us-about-the-content-of-discipleship/)

[Dietrich Bonhoeffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dietrich-bonhoeffer/)

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> [“Everything we do and say will either underline or undermine our discipleship process. As long as there is one unsaved person on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-murrell/everything-we-do-and-say-will-either-underline-or-undermine-our/)

Steve Murrell

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> [“Why do so many today want to wander off to South Africa or Kenya or India or Russia or Honduras or Costa…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scot-mcknight/why-do-so-many-today-want-to-wander-off-to-south-africa-or-kenya-or/)

[Scot McKnight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scot-mcknight/)

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> [“Sometimes, too, when their spiritual masters, such as confessors and superiors, do not approve of their spirit and behavior (for they are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/juan-de-la-cruz/sometimes-too-when-their-spiritual-masters-such-as-confessors-and/)

[Juan de la Cruz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/juan-de-la-cruz/)

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> [“Do they desire to join me in thanksgiving when they hear how, by your gift, I have come close to you, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-augustine-of-hippo/do-they-desire-to-join-me-in-thanksgiving-when-they-hear-how-by-your/)

[St. Augustine of Hippo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-augustine-of-hippo/)

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> [What is discipleship? It is primarily obedience to the Savior. Discipleship includes many things. It is chastity. It is tithing. It is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-e-faust/what-is-discipleship-it-is-primarily-obedience-to-the-savior/)

[James E. Faust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-e-faust/)

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> [“Finally, I would hug 2004 Jen, understanding that discipleship is a journey, and each stage is a necessary precursor to the following…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jen-hatmaker/finally-i-would-hug-2004-jen-understanding-that-discipleship-is-a/)

[Jen Hatmaker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jen-hatmaker/)

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> [“When I look back upon my own religious experience,” says Andrew Murray, “or round upon the Church of Christ in the world,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-l-moody/when-i-look-back-upon-my-own-religious-experience-says-andrew-murray/)

[D.L. Moody](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-l-moody/)

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                        "text": "“Evangelism cant be our focus! We must not stop sharing the good news, but here’s the deal, here’s the wonderful thing, it gets done along the way as you do discipleship. Great commission is just about going to disciple the nations and you know what happens... as you disciple them evangelism takes place, because it’s done in the context of discipleship. Here’s the issue: We have to reframe evangelism within the context of discipleship”",
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                        "text": "“His Majesty has done absolutely nothing but waste his time darling around eating sweets, contributing to the boy's adolescent chubiness, and to the sense of the country's political drift. Rather than being encouraged to govern, the Shah's courtiers preferred to encourage him in his idleness.”",
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                        "text": "Dallas Willard warns us too of the \"cost of non-discipleship.\" We may be able to live with some pain, but when our whole self becomes more and more rotten, the cost is far greater than dealing with the problem as soon as possible. This is why I think following Jesus, though challenging, is much easier than following anything else. The world has nothing better to offer me. Jesus has come to right my wrongs and to make me refreshingly new.",
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                        "text": "“This last journey itself teaches the disciples that to follow Jesus means to walk the way of the cross. Jesus speaks sharply to halting, halfhearted followers. The way of discipleship is costly: it demands total commitment, complete devotion and allegiance to Jesus and the kingdom of God (Luke 9:57–62). “Whoever wants to be my disciple,” Jesus says, “must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me” (9:23; cf. 14:27).”",
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                        "text": "“The desire we so often hear expressed today for “episcopal figures,” “priestly men,” “authoritative personalities” springs frequently enough from a spiritually sick need for the admiration of men, for the establishment of visible human authority, because the genuine authority of service appears to be so unimpressive.”",
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                        "text": "Any objection to the carryings on of our present gold-calf Christianity is met with the triumphant reply, ‘But we are winning them!’ Winning them to what? To true discipleship? To cross-carrying? To self-denial? To separation from the world? To crucifixion of the flesh? To holy living? To hard self-discipline ? To love for God? To total committal to Christ? Of course the answer to all these questions is...No.",
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                        "text": "The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and putting your nose in a slicing machine: its dumb, stupid, and no fun. Some individual sins may have pleasure still attached to them because of the residual goodness of the realities they are abusing: adultery can indeed be pleasant and tying one on can amuse. But betrayal, jealousy, love grown cold, and the gray dawn of the morning after are nobody's idea of a good time.",
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                        "text": "“And what does the text inform us about the content of discipleship? Follow me, run along behind me! That is all. To follow in his steps is something which is void of all content. It gives us no intelligible programme for a way of life, no goal or ideal to strive after. It is not a cause which human calculation might deem worthy of our devotion, even the devotion of ourselves. What happens? At the call, Levi leaves all that he has--but not because he thinks that he might be doing something worth while, but simply for the sake of the call. Otherwise he cannot follow in the steps of Jesus. This act on Levi's part has not the slightest value in itself, it is quite devoid of significance and unworthy of consideration. This disciple simply burns his boats and goes ahead. He is called out, and has to forsake his old life in order that he may \"exist\" in the strictest sense of the word. The old life is left behind, and completely surrendered. The disciple is dragged out of his relative security into a life of absolute insecurity (that is, in truth, into the absolute security and safety of the fellowship of Jesus), from a life which is observable and calculable (it is, in fact, quite incalculable) into a life where everything is unobservable and fortuitous (that is, into one which is necessary and calculable), out of the realm of finite (which is in truth the infinite) into the realm of infinite possibilities (which is the one liberating reality). Again it is no universal law. Rather is it the exact opposite of all legality. It is nothing else than bondage to Jesus Christ alone, completely breaking through every programme, every ideal, every set of laws. No other significance is possible, since Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.”",
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                        "text": "“Everything we do and say will either underline or undermine our discipleship process. As long as there is one unsaved person on my campus or in my city, then my church is not big enough. One of the underlying principles of our discipleship strategy is that every believer can and should make disciples. When a discipleship process fails, many times the fatal flaw is that the definition of discipleship is either unclear, unbiblical, or not commonly shared by the leadership team. Write down what you love to do most, and then go do it with unbelievers. Whatever you love to do, turn it into an outreach. You have to formulate a system that is appropriate for your cultural setting. Writing your own program for making disciples takes time, prayer, and some trial and error—just as it did with us. Learn and incorporate ideas from other churches around the world, but only after modification to make sure the strategies make sense in our culture and community. Culture is changing so quickly that staying relevant requires our constant attention. If we allow ourselves to be distracted by focusing on the mechanics of our own efforts rather than our culture, we will become irrelevant almost overnight. The easiest and most common way to fail at discipleship is to import a model or copy a method that worked somewhere else without first understanding the values that create a healthy discipleship culture. Principles and process are much more important than material, models, and methods. The church is an organization that exists for its nonmembers. Christianity does not promise a storm-free life. However, if we build our lives on biblical foundations, the storms of life will not destroy us. We cannot have lives that are storm-free, but we can become storm-proof. Just as we have to figure out the most effective way to engage our community for Christ, we also have to figure out the most effective way to establish spiritual foundations in each unique context. There is really only one biblical foundation we can build our lives on, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ. Pastors, teachers, and church staff believe their primary role is to serve as mentors. Their task is to equip every believer for the work of the ministry. It is not to do all the ministry, but to equip all the people to do it. Their top priority is to equip disciples to do ministry and to make disciples. Do you spend more time ministering to people or preparing people to minister? No matter what your church responsibilities are, you can prepare others for the same ministry. Insecurity in leadership is a deadly thing that will destroy any organization. It drives pastors and presidents to defensive positions, protecting their authority or exercising it simply to show who is the boss. Disciple-making is a process that systematically moves people toward Christ and spiritual maturity; it is not a bunch of randomly disconnected church activities. In the context of church leadership, one of the greatest and most important applications of faith is to trust the Holy Spirit to work in and through those you are leading. Without confidence that the Holy Spirit is in control, there is no empowering, no shared leadership, and, as a consequence, no multiplication.”",
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                        "text": "“Why do so many today want to wander off to South Africa or Kenya or India or Russia or Honduras or Costa Rica or Peru to help with justice issues but not spend the same effort in their own neighborhood or community or state? Why do young suburbanites, say in Chicago, want to go to Kentucky or Tennessee to help people but not want to spend that same time to go to the inner city in their own area to help with justice issues? I asked this question to a mature student in my office one day, and he thought he had a partial explanation: 'Because my generation is searching for experiences, and the more exotic and extreme the better. Going down the street to help at a food shelter is good and it is just and some of us are doing that, but it's not an experience. We want experiences.”",
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                        "text": "“Sometimes, too, when their spiritual masters, such as confessors and superiors, do not approve of their spirit and behavior (for they are anxious that all they do shall be esteemed and praised), they consider that they do not understand them, or that, because they do not approve of this and comply with that, their confessors are themselves not spiritual. And so they immediately desire and contrive to find some one else who will fit in with their tastes; for as a rule they desire to speak of spiritual matters with those who they think will praise and esteem what they do, and they flee, as they would from death, from those who disabuse them in order to lead them into a safe road—sometimes they even harbour ill-will against them. Presuming thus, they are wont to resolve much and accomplish very little. Sometimes they are anxious that others shall realize how spiritual and devout they are, to which end they occasionally give outward evidence thereof in movements, sighs and other ceremonies; and at times they are apt to fall into certain ecstasies, in public rather than in secret, wherein the devil aids them, and they are pleased that this should be noticed, and are often eager that it should be noticed more.”",
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                        "text": "“Do they desire to join me in thanksgiving when they hear how, by your gift, I have come close to you, and do they pray for me when they hear how I am held back by my own weight? ...A brotherly mind will love in me what you teach to be lovable, and will regret in me what you teach to be regrettable. This is a mark of a Christian brother's mind, not an outsider's--not that of 'the sons of aliens whose mouth speaks vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity' (Ps. 143:7 f.). A brotherly person rejoices on my account when he approves me, but when he disapproves, he is loving me. To such people I will reveal myself. They will take heart from my good traits, and sigh with sadness at my bad ones. My good points are instilled by you and are your gifts. My bad points are my faults and your judgements on them. Let them take heart from the one and regret the other. Let both praise and tears ascend in your sight from brotherly hearts, your censers. ...But you Lord...Make perfect my imperfections”",
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                        "text": "What is discipleship? It is primarily obedience to the Savior. Discipleship includes many things. It is chastity. It is tithing. It is family home evening. It is keeping all the commandments. It is forsaking anything that is not good for us. Everything in life has a price. Considering the Savior's great promise for peace in this life and eternal life in the life to come, discipleship is a price worth paying. It is a price we cannot afford not to pay. By measure, the requirements of discipleship are much, much less than the promised blessings.",
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                        "text": "“Finally, I would hug 2004 Jen, understanding that discipleship is a journey, and each stage is a necessary precursor to the following one. God was right in Proverbs: our light is the dimmest at the beginning of salvation, but it grows brighter and brighter as we go. There is no wasted scene, no futile season. God gives us what we can handle, when we can handle it. We are drawn more and more deeply into the knowledge of Jesus. A baby can’t handle a steak before she has teeth. The steak will come, but for today milk is on the menu. That’s not an insult; it’s biology. The baby will get there. Be patient. Do the best with what you know. When you know more, adjust the trajectory.”",
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