1,034 Quotes About Discipleship

Make us, Lord, in Chesterton's distinction, travelers instead of tourists. Where the tourist defines his day by the expectation of seeing certain things, give us the traveler's openness to seeing what You will reveal.

Pat Conroy embraced his new hometown with the grateful passion of a refugee.

The formal definition of impact is a forcible contact between two things, and God has designed our lives for a collision course with the world.

A wilderness experience includes a long walk back.

Do we have Your Mark 10:39 faith that You will complete what You have begun in us? Or, do we look at our faltering desires and despair or excuse? Let us, Lord Jesus, hear Your Word over us more clearly and emphatically than we hear our own projections. Our predictions come from walking by sight, and they are SO often wrong that we ought to abandon them out of sheer practicality.

No sooner is there a good thing in the world, than a division is necessary.

The mother was conflicted between what she knows that what's possible.

Jesus was trying to present value of a life of vulnerability in which one would have practical and needed experience of the same. It would be a life without baggage, so one would learn to accept others and their culture instead of always carrying along our own country's assumptions and calling them the Gospel.

I knew that (job) had to be a humbling role for my dad, but he never allowed it to become humiliating work.