Top 25 Discipleship Quotes of 30

Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Sin, Discipleship, Avoiding

You will know as much of God, and only as much of God, as you are willing to put into practice.

Eric Liddell

Practice, Discipleship, Willing

Salvation is free, but discipleship will cost you your life

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Cost, Salvation, Discipleship

His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness.

Charles Stanley

Prayer, Voice, Discipleship

Charles Stanley (2002). “How to Listen to God”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

You teach what you know, but you reproduce what you are.

Howard G. Hendricks

Leadership, Epic, Discipleship

Nothing is really lost by a life of sacrifice; everything is lost by failure to obey God's call.

Henry Parry Liddon

Sacrifice, Lost, Discipleship

Our problem is that we are in the Word but not under the Word.

Howard G. Hendricks

Epic, Problem, Discipleship

You cannot impart what you do not possess.

Howard G. Hendricks

Epic, Discipleship, Christian Discipleship

Howard G. Hendricks, William D. Hendricks (2009). “As Iron Sharpens Iron: Building Character in a Mentoring Relationship”, p.58, Moody Publishers

Take the words of Jesus and let them become the Supreme Court of the Gospel to you.

John G. Lake

Jesus, Court, Discipleship

John G. Lake (2012). “Living In God's Power”, p.107, Whitaker House

Cheap grace is grace without discipleship.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Grace, Discipleship, Christian Discipleship

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.4, SCM Press

Those who teach by their doctrine must teach by their life, or else they pull down with one hand what they build up with the other.

Matthew Henry

Hands, Doctrine, Discipleship

Matthew Henry, J.B Williams (1828). “Exposition of the Old and New Testament”, p.1201

The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything can be had for nothing.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Essence, Grace, Discipleship

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.3, SCM Press

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

Oswald Chambers

Inspirational, Lord, Discipleship

Oswald Chambers (2015). “Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart”, p.258, Discovery House

Salvation is free, but discipleship costs everything we have

Billy Graham

Cost, Salvation, Discipleship

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

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