Discipleship Quotes
116 Discipleship quotes by 70 unique authors
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Discipleship is rooted in a deep belief in the universal reign of God through Christ. To be a disciple is to acknowledge that reign and…
— Michael Frost
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Discipleship is crucial to our ultimate destiny, but its cost is total commitment.
— David Jeremiah
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St John, on Christ's bosom, pray for me in the days of my discipleship, in the house of my faith, in the hour of my…
— Eric Milner-White
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Take the words of Jesus and let them become the Supreme Court of the Gospel to you.
— John G. Lake
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In the spiritual life only one thing produces genuine joy and that is obedience.
— Richard J. Foster
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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 putting your nose…
— Robert Farrar Capon
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Let this be thy whole endeavor, this thy prayer, this thy desire,-that thou mayest be stripped of all selfishness, and with entire simplicity follow Jesus…
— Thomas a Kempis
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One can believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ and feel no personal loyalty to Him at all - indeed, pay no attention whatever to…
— Catherine Marshall
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To be converted to faith in Jesus Christ is to return to the worship of the true God, and to dethrone all rivals to his…
— Graham Kendrick
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We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.
— John Ortberg
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...Christ did not appoint professors, but followers. If Christianity ... is not reduplicated in the life of the person expounding it, then he does not…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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I dare not say with Paul that I am the slave of Christ, but my highest aspiration and desire is to be the slave of…
— George MacDonald
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Today, even amongst Christians, there can be found much of that spirit that wants to give as little as possible to the Lord, and yet…
— Watchman Nee
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The Bible parable says that while men slept, the enemy sowed tares among the wheat. A boy who rises at 4:30 to deliver papers is…
— Leonard Ravenhill
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The invitation is not, "Give Me thine head." The invitation is, "My Son, give Me thine heart."
— John G. Lake
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... I gave as an offering my all to Him Who had won me and saved me, my property, my fame, my health, my very…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
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Let no one imagine that he will lose anything of human dignity by this voluntary sell-out of his all to his God. He does not…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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It is the Father's life, and the Father's life alone, that ever lives the Christian life. It is the Father's life, and Father's life alone,…
— Gene Edwards
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Do not scrutinize so closely whether you are doing much or little, ill or well, so long as what you do is not sinful and…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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It is only by a total death to self we can be lost in God.
— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
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All we have-ourselves-to Him, and if that be all, that is enough.
— Watchman Nee
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If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.
— William Law
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His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness.
— Charles Stanley
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
— Simone Weil
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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Who Wrote These Discipleship Quotes
70 authors contributed a total of 116 Discipleship Quotes, led by these top contributors: