Quotes About Discipleship

God has a university. It's a small school. Few enroll; even fewer graduate.

Once we know the Word of God, we have a responsibility to be obedient to it.

No matter how high the powers of reason, no matter how deep the intellect, no one can discover God's secret messages without paying the cost of true discipleship.

Our work begins where God's grace has laid the foundation; we are not to save souls, but to disciple them.

The Christian should take nothing short of Christ for his model.

The children of God all have a cross to bear. A suffering Savior generally has suffering disciples.

The saved are few, but we must live with the few if we would be saved with the few. O God, too few indeed they are: yet amongst those few I wish to be!

To evangelize properly by delivering the gospel, we need to follow God's agenda.

If you really want to experience God, go and make disciples.

Buildings are tools to reach people, raise disciples, reach students, train up our kids, heal marriages and families and worship God.

Where God takes such pains to teach, we ought to be at pains to learn.

God wants to continue to appear to people through those who live like Jesus

True Christianity is obedience to Jesus Christ.

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

God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure - people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.

The Great Commission is the Great Adventure of Christianity.

Discipleship is the pursuit of holiness and happiness. It is the path to our best and happiest self.

Our Lord's conception of discipleship is not that we work for God, but that God works through us.

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

What we call the Lord's prayer is actually the Disciple's Prayer because It says "Forgive us our trespasses" and Our LORD Jesus had no sin. Selah

John, who was transformed into a passionate lover of God, had lost everything he knew in order to come into that which he did not yet know. Oh, the cost of authentic discipleship!

If you want to receive eternal life, keep the commandments" (Matthew 19:17). If you want to know the truth, believe in me. If you want to be perfect, sell all that you have. If you want to be my disciple, deny yourself. If you want to possess the blessed life, give up the life you now have. If you want to be exalted in heaven, humble yourself in this world. If you want to reign with me, bear the cross with me, for only the servants of the cross find the blessed life and true light.

If any one will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross." The plain meaning of these words is, that there is no following Jesus on any other terms--a doctrine which, however clearly taught in the Gospel, spurious Christians are unwilling to believe and resolute to deny.

Though they had been for years with Jesus, there was still much more of the old Jewish man than of the new Christian man in them. If they had been left to the freedom of their own will, they would probably have avoided the Samaritan territory altogether, and, like the rest of their countrymen, taken a roundabout way to Jerusalem by crossing to the eastward of the Jordan.