1,034 Quotes About Discipleship

G-rated language is making me a less angry person. Behavior shapes emotion.

If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation.

I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that it is authentic.

Christianity is not something you do, so much as something that is done to you.

Whatever God permits to happen in your life is a gift to you. God has two goals...His Glory and Your Good!

Rapture is costly; it usually means you are overlooking consequences.

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

Try to resist copying a blueprint from another person's ministry.

A missionary deals with all the important people of the community, but he is never really one of them.