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• The Lord gave the wonderful promise of the free use of His name with the Father in conjunction with doing His works. The disciple who lives only for Jesus' work and kingdom, for His will and honor, will be given the power to appropriate the promise. Anyone grasping the promise only when he wants something very special for himself will be disappointed, because he is making Jesus the servant of his own comfort. But whoever wants to pray the effective prayer of faith because he needs it for the work of the Master will learn it, because he has made himself the servant of his Lord's interests.

  Andrew Murray

  Jesus, Prayer, Father

  "Andrew Murray On Prayer".

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• Disciples of Jesus Christ understand that compared to eternity, our existence in this mortal sphere is only “a small moment” in space and time. They know that a person’s true value has little to do with what the world holds in high esteem. They know you could pile up the accumulated currency of the entire world and it could not buy a loaf of bread in the economy of heaven.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Space, Heaven

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• I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the truth of the one, indivisible Art; - I believe that this Art proceeds from God, and lives within the hearts of all illumined men.

  Richard Wagner

  Art, Truth, Believe

  "Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays".

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• Every true faith is infallible. It performs what the believing person hopes to find in it. But it does not offer the least support for the establishing of an objective truth. Here the ways of men divide. If you want to achieve peace of mind and happiness, have faith. If you want to be a disciple of truth, then search.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Men, Support

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Christopher Middleton (1996). “Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.7, Hackett Publishing

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• As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Opponents, Firsts, Has Beens

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.67, Cambridge University Press

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• It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and cried out in pity for a yogin by the river who had spent twenty years of his human existence learning to walk on water, when the ferryman might have taken him across for a small coin.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Taken, Years, Rivers

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• Disciples who are steadfast and immovable do not become fanatics or extremists, are not overzealous, and are not preoccupied with misguided gospel hobbies.

  David A. Bednar

  Hobbies, Misguided, Steadfast

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• The wisdom of God's Word is quite clear on believers being unequally yoked. And marrying someone who is not a Christian - who is not a daily disciple of Christ - is being unequally yoked, regardless of what their beliefs might be.

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, Might, Belief

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• Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Mentor, Jung, Wanted

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• Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

  Stephen Hawking

  Passion, Romance, Reason

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• When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of the Lord.

  Pope Francis

  Bishops, May, Christ

  "Pope Francis Celebrates First Mass With Cardinals In Sistine Chapel" by Crispian Balmer, Philip Pullella, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 14, 2013.

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• if a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly,” then they need to search.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mind, Wish, Needs

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• It is for the inconsistent, unsteady disciples whose cheese is falling off their cracker.

  Brennan Manning

  Fall, Cheese, Crackers

  Brennan Manning, John Blase (2011). “All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir”, p.103, David C Cook

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• He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes, accessible to the initiates. This was a long road which he was traveling with effort, wonderment, and profound joy. Physics was prose: elegant gymnastics for the mind, mirror of Creation, the key to man's dominion over the planet; but what is the stature of Creation, of man and the planet? His road was long and he had barely started up it, but I was his disciple: did I want to follow him?

  Primo Levi

  Gymnastics, Men, Creation Of Man

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• There is no question, therefore, that the work to be done in familiarising the general public with the nature of the Mysteries is of paramount importance at this time. These Mysteries will be restored to outer expression through the medium of the Church and the Masonic Fraternity ... When the Great One comes with His disciples and initiates we shall have ... the restoration of the Mysteries and their exoteric presentation as a consequence of the first initiation.

  Alice Bailey

  Expression, Church, Restoration

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• The defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people.

  Caleb Carr

  People, Decent, Defenders

  Caleb Carr (2006). “The Alienist: A Novel”, p.171, Random House

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• The church as a whole has strayed quite far from biblical evangelism; that is, sharing the Gospel in the way that Jesus did, the way the Apostle Paul did, and the rest of the disciples and prophets in Scripture.

  Kirk Cameron

  Jesus, Biblical, Church

  "Kirk Cameron: The Gospel Truth". Interview with Laura Bagby, www.cbn.com.

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• The teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is not--Do your duty, but--Do what is not your duty. It is not your duty to go the second mile, to turn the other cheek, but Jesus says if we are His disciples we shall always do these things. There will be no spirit of--"Oh, well, I cannot do any more, I have been so misrepresented and misunderstood". . . Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We are always looking for justice; the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is--Never look for justice, but never cease to live it.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Teaching, Men

  Oswald Chambers (1985). “My Utmost for His Highest”

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• A disciple...can never imitate his guide's steps. You have your own way of living your life, of dealing with problems, and of winning. Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

  Paulo Coelho

  Teaching, Winning, Live Your Life

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• They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Song, Religion, Looks

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.129, Penguin

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• We could cope—the world could cope—with a Jesus who ultimately remains a wonderful idea inside his disciples' minds and hearts. The world cannot cope with a Jesus who comes out of the tomb, who inaugurates God's new creation right in the middle of the old one.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Heart, Ideas

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• In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others. He told us about Christ's disciples being fishermen, and we were left to assume, as my brother and I did, that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.

  Norman Maclean

  Brother, Father, Sea

  Norman Maclean, Barry Moser (1989). “A River Runs Through It”, p.1, University of Chicago Press

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• I remind you that no man who makes disparaging remarks concerning those of another race can consider himself a true disciple of Christ," said President Hinckley. "How can any man holding the Melchizedek Priesthood arrogantly assume that he is eligible for the priesthood whereas another who lives a righteous life but whose skin is of a different color, is ineligible?

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Men, Race, Color

  "The Need for Greater Kindness" by Gordon B. Hinckley, www.lds.org. May, 2006.

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• I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.

  Michael Connelly

  Art, Quality, Redemption

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• the life of Jesus recapitulates key elements in the earlier story of Israel. For a moment, as Jesus stands on the mountain giving the famous sermon, he is Moses. For a moment, answering his critics about his actions on the sabbath, he is David. For a moment, as he calls and names the twelve disciples, he is perhaps Jacob, bringing the twelve patriarchs into the world. For a moment, healing the sick and raising the dead, he is Elijah or Elisha. And so on. In the transfiguration he actually meets Moses and Elijah.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Healing, Names

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