Discipleship Quote by John Calvin Download Open image ““The Must be worthless by our estimation or keep us enslaved by an intemperate love of it.”” — John Calvin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Discipleship Love Materialism Passion
“Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.” — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
“Only you can achieve self-worth for yourself. Any group offering it to you, or demanding it of you, comes bearing chains of slavery.” — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
“I deny being a slave to any one thing. In any situation we can choose who we are and choose who we want to… — Renee Ahdieh Copy Share Image
“We are at the mercy of whoever wields authority over the things we either desire or detest. If you would be free, then, do… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“If these slaves had only any future, anything to hope for, to strive for, to live for, any prospect before them, then i should… — Fredrika Bremer Copy Share Image
“The slave is doomed to worship Time and Fate and Death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“And do you know, I came with horror to the conclusion that, if anything could dissipate my love for humanity, it would be ingratitude.… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind.… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It is no small honour that God for our sake has so magnificently adorned the world, in order that we may not only be… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind.… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“It is one thing being disciplined to plan and it is another thing being a disciple of great work. Be your own disciplinarian.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“There are two choices: to be human, made in the image of God, with Jesus; warp to be in human, consumed with greed and… — Megan McKenna Copy Share Image
“There is no shortcut for hard work that leads to effectiveness. You must stay disciplined because most of the work is behind the scenes.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
“Christian discipleship is a decision to walk in his ways, steadily and firmly, and then finding that the way integrates all our interests, passions,… — Eugene Peterson Copy Share Image
“(Bonhoeffer's) change was not an ungainly, embarrassing leap from which he would have to retreat slightly when he gained more maturity and perspective. It… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
“The evangelical wing of the Church spends a lot of energy on being "born again" but little time on "growing up" again. There is… — Steve Stockman Copy Share Image
We even talked like Hemingway characters, though in travesty, as if to deny our discipleship: That is your bed, and it is a good… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Your strengths develop your confidence; your weaknesses develop your faith. — Howard G. Hendricks Copy Share Image