Quotes About Following

Everyone who flees from you falls, everyone who turns to you rises, and everyone who abides in you stands. No wise person forsakes you, only the wise seek you, and no one completely finds you except the pure in heart. Those who forsake you perish. Those who love you, seek you. And those who follow you, have you.

You survived," Death said, appearing again as Cat. "They were vicious. If they'd –" "– Don't go there." "You've always known really bad people are following you," Death said, softening what she was going to say. "But did you know I've been following you too?" "Why?" Word asked, not getting it. "Simple," Cat said. "If I keep you alive many others won't die.

The moment I decided to follow instead of lead, I discovered the joys of becoming part of a small child's world.

By learning of Him, by believing in Him, by following Him, there is the capacity to become like Him.

Being converted to Jesus is learning to so adore God that we would gladly renounce everything we have to follow Him.

The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.

There is not a single loophole or curveball or open trench to fall into for the man or woman who walks the path that Christ walks. When He says, "Come, Follow Me" (Luke 18:22), He means that He knows where the quicksand is and where the thorns are and the best way to handle the slippery slope near the summit of our personal mountains. He knows it all, and He knows the way. He is the way.

She had what I'd call a lemming ass - that is, an ass that you would follow right over the edge of the cliff.

I had an advantage because people would post me on blogs because I had co-signs from Kanye West, Def Jam, and G.O.O.D. Music. Everything I put out, the blogs would put up. When I realized that, I used that to my advantage and helped build my following on my own.

I think the American Western laid down a kind of subject matter that's about following your instinct or following your gut and having a sort of removed quality from your humanity. And I think Clint Eastwood helped to establish that.

Now, I don't even consider NXT a developmental system. It's its own brand. So many guys were able to develop a following while in NXT.

I hope you had an entertaining time following me around." I took my keys out. "You should be a reality show," he said. "It's that good. And you know, I might be a totally unstable former assassin, but man. You manage to shock even me.

When George was a kid he used to follow me and my first girlfriend, Cynthia—who became my wife—around. We'd come out of art school, and he'd be hovering around like those kids at the gate of the Dakota now.

What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.

When an officer runs by with a look like that on his face, you don't ask if he needs help. You just follow!

Os pequenos prazeres da vida, doces e excelentes em seu momento, não deveriam ser a finalidade de toda a existência. Os mandamentos divinos deveriam ser buscados e seguidos; a vida celestial deveria começar aqui na Terra.

Churches that never deal with the real fight that following My Son requires often grow large but mostly with small Christians.

You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does.

What do you want?' 'I want to play,' he said. I stared at him. 'Just like that. You don't know what I'm involved in, but you want a piece of it.' 'Following you around lets me kill a lot of people.

I think it is fair to say that in the Western church, we have by and large lost the art of disciple making. We have done so partly because we have reduced it to the intellectual assimilation of ideas, partly because of the abiding impact of cultural Christianity embedded in the Christendom understanding of church, and partly because the phenomenon of consumerism in our own day pushes against a true following of Jesus.

Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock. Such grace is costly because it calls us to follow, and it is grace because it calls us to follow Jesus Christ. It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life. It is costly because it condemns sin, and grace because it justifies the sinner.

Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

Suffering, then, is the badge of true discipleship. The disciple is not above his master. Following Christ means passio passiva, suffering because we have to suffer.

Discipleship means adherence to Christ, and, because Christ is the object of that adherence, it must take the form of discipleship. An abstract Christology, a doctrinal system, a general religious knowledge on the subject of grace or on the forgiveness of sins, render discipleship superfluous, and in fact they positively exclude any idea of discipleship whatever, and are essentially inimical to the whole conception of following Christ.