1,034 Quotes About Discipleship
- Author David Brooks
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People who live according to the pure code of honor are not governed by the profit motive; they are governed by the thymotic urge, the quest for recognition. They seek the sort of glory that can be won only by showing strength in confrontation with death.
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- Author Matthew Paul Turner
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Edwards’s God was glorious, full of beauty, and seemingly uninterested in making people feel insecure. Edwards was a mystic, a man who didn’t simply write or preach about God, he experienced him.
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- Author John Pollock
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In his late forties, an age when men settle to comforts and seek a firm base, Paul began his roughest travels.
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- Author Dick Van Dyke
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It wasn't work. I played myself.
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- Author Juan de la Cruz
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Many beginners also at times possess great spiritual avarice. They hardly ever seem content with the spirit God gives them. They become unhappy and peevish because they don't find the consolation they want in spiritual things. Many never have enough of hearing counsels, or learning spiritual maxims, or keeping them and reading books about them. They spend more time in these than in striving after mortification and the perfection of the interior poverty to which they are obliged.
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- Author Dillon Burroughs
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Let us live not only to serve God ourselves; let us live to help our children and their children live for God.
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- Author David Halberstam
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He was perceived to be intellectually promiscuous, a little too eager to please all groups.
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- Author Ron Brackin
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Followers of Jesus do well to spend more time engaging him than explaining him.
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- Author Elton Trueblood
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A major element in Lincoln's greatness was the way in which he could hold a strong moral position without the usual accompaniment of self-righteousness.
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