1,034 Quotes About Discipleship

Life has a peculiar feel when you look back on it that it doesn't have when you're actually living it. It's as though the whole thing were designed to be understood in hindsight, as though you'll never know the meaning of your experiences until you've had enough of them to provide reference.

Treat this crisis as practice for the next crisis.

Conversions were easy, but making full-time disciples was hard.

(William) Deresiewicz offers a vision of what it takes to move from adolescence to adulthood. Everyone is born with a mind, he writes, but it is only through introspection, observation, connecting the head and the heart, making meaning of experience and finding an organizing purpose that you build a unique individual self.

The Jesus Movement had survived the fad phase and was settling down for the long haul.

When we concentrate on preaching what people WANT to hear we will only succeed in exciting their flash and depressing their spirit.

There's a difference, you know, between faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow. The other one will make you sleep.

To be a man, a boy must see a man.

You know after any truly initiating experience that you are part of a much bigger whole. Life is not about you henceforward, but you are about life.