Disciple Quotes - Page 2

• The disciple is rich not in possessions, but in personal identity.

  Oswald Chambers

  Identity, Rich, Possession

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Approved Unto God / Facing Reality”, p.26, Discovery House

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• No one whose first concern is feeling good can be a disciple. We are called to carry a cross and to glorify God.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Feel Good, Feelings, Firsts

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• Christ, who said to the disciples, 'You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,' can truly say to every group of Christian friends, 'You have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another.'

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Groups, Said

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• Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession.... Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Discipline, Grace

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2001). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.4, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses

  Francis Chan

  Jesus, Excuse, Said

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• Prayer is a form of communication between God and man and man and God... I am always impressed by the fact that it is recorded that the only thing that the disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to do was to pray.

  Howard Thurman

  Jesus, Prayer, Communication

  "Disciplines of the Spirit". Book by Howard Thurman, 1977.

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• The backslider likes the preaching that wouldn't hit the side of a house, while the real disciple is delighted when the truth brings him to his knees.

  Billy Sunday

  Real, Christian Inspirational, House

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• If the disciples needed to be so endued and to preach the gospel with the Holy Spirit and with the manifestation of the Almighty, are we better than them able to carry on God's work without the empowerment they had?

  Reinhard Bonnke

  Empowerment, Able, Spirit

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• Jesus said, 'Go ... and make disciples,' not converts to your opinions.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Opinion, Said

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• Don't let the whirlwinds drag you down. These are your days - to stand strong as disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ.

  Neil L. Andersen

  Spiritual, Jesus, Strong

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• To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things that will make disciples of all nations.

  Rowan Williams

  Christian, Believe, World

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• As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.

  Adam Clarke

  Jesus, Honor, Resurrection

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• I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

  Antonio Porchia

  Motivational, Masters, Will Power

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

  Dallas Willard

  Teacher, Ifs

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• There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

  Charles Dickens

  Charity, Excitement, Pleasure

  Charles Dickens (1842). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.161

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• Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?

  Dallas Willard

  Two, Church, Able

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• Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations

  Oswald Chambers

  Bible, Baptism, Ecumenism

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “So Send I You / Workmen Of God: Recognizing and Answering God's Call to Service”, p.137, Discovery House

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• Knowing that we are fulfilling God's purpose is the only thing that gives rest to the restless human heart.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Heart, Knowing

  Charles Colson, Nancy Pearcey (2011). “How Now Shall We Live?”, p.204, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• It is impossible to live the life of a disciple without definite times of secret prayer. You will find that the place to enter in is in your business, as you walk along the streets, in the ordinary ways of life, when no one dreams you are praying, and the reward comes openly, a revival here, a blessing there.

  Oswald Chambers

  Dream, Prayer, Live Life

  Oswald Chambers (2016). “Studies in the Sermon on the Mount: God's Character and the Believer's Conduct”, p.30, Discovery House

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• Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him; one doubted Him; one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government?

  Richard J. Daley

  Government, Cities, Perfection

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• If any want to become my followers," Jesus says. Following him is not something that is self-evident, even among the disciples. No one can be forced, no one can be expected to follow him. ... "If any want to follow me, they must deny themselves ... and take up their cross.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Self, Followers

  "Discipleship". Book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, p. 85, 1937.

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• No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Time, Children, Artist

  Friedrich Schiller (2012). “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”, p.51, Courier Corporation

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• It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Cost, Insult

  Oswald Chambers (2014). “Love: A Holy Command”, p.15, Discovery House

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• The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position.

  Josh McDowell

  Easter, Clothes, Mind

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• Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Interesting, Matter

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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