1,034 Quotes About Discipleship

You are my Beloved, on you my favor rests.' It certainly is not easy to hear that voice in a world filled with voices that shout: 'You are no good, you are ugly; you are worthless; you are despicable, you are nobody- unless you can demonstrate the opposite.' These negative voices are so loud and so persistent that it is easy to believe them. That's the great trap. It is the trap of self-rejection.

A big part of me needed something outside myself to tell me who I was. The thing that had been designed to tell me who I was was gone.

God isn’t interested in simply tweaking your behavior or stepping up your morality. He is all about radically transforming your entire life.

No language about God will ever be fully adequate to the burning mystery which it signifies.

Whenever Christ calls us, his call leads us to death.

When meeting criticism, he would regard it not as something to resent but as a thing to be examined, like an interesting beetle. "That's a curious view, not uninteresting.

The wings of the dove are as soft as they are swift. Gentleness is a sure result of the Sacred Dove's transforming power: hearts touched by His benign influence are meek and lowly henceforth and for ever.

Prayer is the forerunner of mercy.

If virtue does not equal powers, powers will be misused.