Discipleship Quotes
116 quotes by 70 authors
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Love is the measure of our faith, the inspiration for our obedience, and the true altitude of our discipleship.
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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Let us simplify our lives a little, let us make the changes necessary to focus on the simple, humble path of Christian discipleship.
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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It is possible to know all about doctrine and yet not know Jesus. The soul is in danger when knowledge of doctrine outsteps intimate touch…
— Oswald Chambers
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For those who feel their lives are a grave disappointment to God, it requires enormous trust and reckless, raging confidence to accept that the love…
— Brennan Manning
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We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom He has given…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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Jesus calls us to his rest, and meekness is His method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts about the other…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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We even talked like Hemingway characters, though in travesty, as if to deny our discipleship: That is your bed, and it is a good bed,…
— Tobias Wolff
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Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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We should be more concerned with reaching the lost than pampering the saved.
— David McGee
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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 not discard the…
— Saint Augustine
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The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.
— Oswald Chambers
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God wants to help us to eventually turn all of our weaknesses into strengths,1 but He knows that this is a long-term goal. He wants…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't…
— Donald Miller
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
— Sinclair Lewis
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Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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But discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ...Christ speaks to us exactly…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with…
— Andrew Murray
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Fortunately, God made all varieties of people with a wide variety of interests and abilities. He has called people of every race and color who…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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[God says] Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend - it must transcend all comprehension. Plunge into the deep waters beyond your own…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Who Wrote These Discipleship Quotes
70 authors contributed a total of 116 Discipleship Quotes, led by these top contributors: