Top 25 Disciple Quotes of 48 - Page 2

Salvation is free, but discipleship costs everything we have

Salvation is free, but discipleship costs everything we have

Billy Graham

Cost, Salvation, Discipleship

Billy Graham (1966). “The Quotable Billy Graham”

I am God and my lawyers are my 12 disciples...do not f**k with me!

Courtney Love

Lawyer, Disciple

Discipleship is not an option. Jesus says that if anyone would come after me, he must follow me.

Timothy Keller

Jesus, Follow Me, Discipleship

Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Christianity, Christ, Discipleship

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.17, SCM Press

Disciples are people who operate under the rule of God, and if we're not operating under the rule of God, we can't expect the broader society to take God seriously.

Tony Evans

God, People, Disciple

"'God and His Rule Is America's Only Hope,' Says Pastor Tony Evans as He Calls Christians to Repentance". Interview with Nicola Menzie, www.christianpost.com. January 9, 2015.

Take from others what you want, but never be a disciple of anyone.

Alexander Sutherland Neill

Want, What You Want, Disciple

Alexander Sutherland Neill (1972). “Neill! Neill! Orange peel!: An autobiography”, Hart Associates

To be a disciple of Jesus is to make disciples of Jesus.

David Platt

Jesus, Disciple

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

Robert Anton Wilson

Disciple, Humans, Human Beings

Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard.

Pope Gregory I

Learning, Practice, Discipleship

Your strengths develop your confidence; your weaknesses develop your faith.

Howard G. Hendricks

Epic, Weakness, Discipleship

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.

Anthony de Mello

Eye, Disciple

Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.41, Image

Our Lord sent His disciples out as sheep among wolves; now the wolves are being invited into the sheepfold.

Vance Havner

Sheep, Lord, Disciple

Our deepest joy comes from Christ: remaining with him, walking with him, being his disciples.

Pope Francis

Joy, Christ, Disciple

Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.78, SPCK

If we are serious about our discipleship, Jesus will eventually request each of us to do those very things which are most difficult for us to do.

Neal A. Maxwell

Jesus, Serious, Discipleship

Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Men, Christ, Discipleship

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

Dallas Willard

Teacher, Disciple, Ifs

If you cannot be accused of exclusivity, you are not discipling.

Howard G. Hendricks

Discipleship, Accused, Exclusivity

All we have-ourselves-to Him, and if that be all, that is enough.

Watchman Nee

Enough, Discipleship, Ifs

My greatest fear is not your failure, but your success.

Howard G. Hendricks

Epic, Greatest Fear, Discipleship

Imitators? All right! Disciples if you like. But disciples be damned. It's not interesting.

Pablo Picasso

Interesting, Disciple, Ifs

Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.

Martin Luther

Faith, Where You Are Going, Discipleship

Jesus never discipled one-on-one.

Howard G. Hendricks

Jesus, Epic, Discipleship

Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.

Charles Caleb Colton

Jesus, Cunning, Disciple

Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

Jesus & his apostles & disciples were all artists

William Blake

Jesus, Artist, Disciple

William Blake, Robert N. Essick, Joseph Viscomi (1998). “Milton a Poem, and the Final Illuminated Works: The Ghost of Abel, On Homers Poetry, [and] On Virgil, Laocoön”, p.232, Princeton University Press