Quotes About Disciples

Great spiritual teachers, like Buddha and Jesus, have touched their disciples' hearts by speaking in the language of emotion, teaching in parables, fables, and stories. Indeed, religious symbol and ritual makes little sense from the rational point of view; it is couched in the vernacular of the heart.

When Jesus departed, he left no one behind who was the message.

Of his performing the miracle, Jesus told his disciples, "As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me… While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

Prosperity's disciples build careful bastions against age and change.

In his eulogy, the Marquis de Condorcet observed that whosoever pursues mathematics in the future will be guided and sustained by the genius of Euler and asserted , with much justification, that all mathematicians...are his disciples.

This is why Jesus taught in parables to the masses, and gave the inner or esoteric teachings and practices to his disciples only (Luke 8:10). Jesus also instructed the disciples not to reveal inner or esoteric teachings and practices to the unprepared when he told them not to cast their pearls before swine (Matthew 7:6).

They finally said to the Master, "Teach us to pray.

The gradual change that came over the eleven chosen disciples was not the result of introspection, but of living with their Master, talking to Him, seeing Him work and pray, bringing Him their difficulties, pondering the words of truth that came as the answer to their thoughts. Their desires grew divine because they were "lift upward."

Disciples of Jesus do not mimic Jesus; we manifest him. We are personators of Christ, not impersonators. Christ's presence in our lives is more "thereness" than "likeness," more "withness" than "whatness." Jesus made our creation in the imago Dei more "spit" than "image" (as in "spit 'n' image").

It used to be said that when the Baal Shem Tov came into a town, his impact was so strong, he didn't have to speak. His disciples had to dance or to sing or to preach to have the same effect. I think a real messenger, myself or anyone, by the very fact that he is there as a person, as a symbol, could have the same impact.

We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.

I am the original... Those are my disciples.

We are disciples of Krishna, and we look at ourselves like Arjun in the battlefield.

So when Jesus defended his disciples for picking grain on the Sabbath, he was essentially telling his interrogators that they misunderstood God's relationship with human beings. He was saying, in effect, Yes, there are rules, but don't let the rules get in the way of loving God and others. And when Jesus healed a leper, he was giving an object lesson in the same: by the power of God's Spirit, the people who have been excluded are now included.

Marxism is supposed to be a social science designed to see through hypocrisies and denial, but Marxism ended up as a kind of earplug, guaranteed to deafen its disciples.

However, he often feels challenged by those whom he teaches the sword. His disciples call him to combat.

John would have disciples in every age understand—and live like they understand—that they exist to do God's bidding, because God created all things for the doing of God's will and pleasure (4:11).

Durnik needs a tower somewhere in the Vale, Belgarath was saying. I don't see why, father, Polgara replied. All of Aldur's disciples have towers, Pol. It's the custom. Old customs persist --even when there's no longer any need for them. He's going to need to study, Pol. How can he possibly study with you underfoot all the time? She gave him a long, chilly stare. Maybe I should rephrase that.

The host of men who stand between a great thinker and the average man are not automatic transmitters. They work on the ideas; perhaps that is why a genius usually hates his disciples.

The host of men who stand between a great thinker and the average man are not automatic transmitters. They work on the ideas; perhaps that is why a genius usually hates his disciples.

I was in a movie with Marlon Brando. Now, I didn't have any scenes with Marlon Brando, but I had scenes with Martin Sheen and was around Dennis Hopper, who was a child actor in the studio system and was enamored of James Dean, as was Martin, and they were all sort of disciples of Brando.

Jesus keeps the Sabbath with an eye to the weightier matters of the law, which are justice, mercy, and truth. Jesus keeps the Sabbath as an adult. Children are very worried about keeping the rules, and forcing other people to keep the rules. But children might keep rules so rigidly that they actually violate the rules. That's how the Pharisees keep the law. They are childish law keepers. Jesus is a mature law-keeper, and He calls His disciples to keep the law in the same way.

His disciples asked him what this parable might mean, and he said, 'The mysteries of the kingdom of God are revealed to you, for the rest there are only parables, so that they might see but not perceive, listen but not understand.'" (Luke 8:9/10)

We shall never recover the true apostolic energy, and be endued with power from on high, as the first disciples were, 'till we recover the lost faith.