Quotes About Disciple

If we do not disciple and empower others as Jesus did, we end up exploiting them and using them for our own ends, even if we clothe our actions in very spiritual terms.

A disciple of Jesus Christ is a visible verbal follower of Jesus Christ at the expense of the ones and things that they hold dear. It's that serious.

The authority is God's. Although mediated through various styles, the fundamental authority of God in counseling must be evident in all biblical counseling. Any personality traits that interfere with, rather than mediate the message must be altered. That is why the Lord changed the apostle Peter from a weak, vacillating, fearful disciple to the bold fearless disciple who told the authorities, "We must obey God rather than men" (Acts 5:29).

You are only a disciple because your eyes are closed. The day you open them you will see there is nothing you can learn from me or anyone. What then is a Master for? To make you see the uselessness of having one. Anthony de Mello

If one truly wants to be His disciple he must first give up his right to himself (a total abandonment), take up the Cross (which must mean, sooner or later and in many forms, suffering), and finally follow -- a daily obedience.

For what is a disciple? He is one who seeks to learn a new rhythm, to enter a new field of experience, and to follow the steps of that advanced humanity who have trodden ahead of him the path, leading from darkness to light, from the unreal to the real.

A man who visits a barber to be shaved, or who orders a suit from a tailor, is not a disciple, but a customer. So one who comes to the Savior only to be saved is the Savior's customer, not His disciple. A disciple is one who says to Christ, 'How I long to do work like Yours! To go from place to place taking away fear; bringing instead joy, truth, comfort, and life eternal!

A disciple is an asshole looking for a human being to attach itself to.

I am proud to be a Sikh and am a true disciple of Guru Gobind Singh, who sacrificed his entire family for the Sikh religion.

Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.

Love, like individuals, is tested by the flame of adversity. If we are faithful and determined, it will temper and refine us, but it will not consume us. Enjoy what you now have. Be a disciple of Christ. Live worthily of marriage even if it doesn't come soon. And cherish it with all your heart when it does.

Alas! it is not the renunciation of our past and future selves that is difficult; it is the steady denial of our present self which makes the disciple.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.

IT WOULD BE REALLY pretty easy to be virtuous, be that disciple of Jesus, if it weren't for one big problem. Those other people. Yeah. Them.

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

[I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines.

I found out the hard way that if we don't disciple people, the culture sure will. This

Jesus will not accept the common distinction between righteous indignation and unjustifiable anger. The disciple must be entirely innocent of anger, because anger is an offence against both God and his neighbour.

It will always be true that the wisest course for the disciple is...to abide solely by the Word of God in all simplicity.

Jesus will not accept the common distinction between righteous indignation and unjustifiable anger.I The disciple must be entirely innocent of anger, because anger is an offence against both God and his neighbour.

Assim como Cristo manteve a comunhão com o Pai ao levar fardos, o discípulo, ao levar fardos, mantém a comunhão com Cristo.

A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.

You are not supposed to convert anybody, that's God's job. But at the same time, you can be His disciple and live for Him and when people ask you why are you living for Him, you can show them why and profess your faith.

When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may.