1,034 Quotes About Discipleship

Her characters tend to err when they reject the grubby and complex circumstances of everyday life for abstract and radical notions. They thrive when they work within the rooted spot, the concrete habit, the particular reality of their town and family.

[T]he road to character is built by confronting your own weakness.

There's no such thing as a mistake, really. It's just an opportunity to do something else.

How my emotions starred as I played! During one of this tug-of-war contest between knowing right and doing wrong, I wrote the words to a song on my own for the first time.

Bob Dylan's Christianity has been allusive, idiosyncratic, and never the sort to place him on anyone's side in any Kulturkampf.

Radical self-denial gives the feel of adventure. If we forsake all, we even have the chance of glorious martyrdom. But in service, we must experience the many little death of going beyond ourselves. Service banishes us to the mundane, the ordinary, the trivial

True service is a lifestyle. It acts from the ingrained patterns of living. It springs spontaneously to meet human need.

The counselee should be aware that you are not God. Better yet, she should be aware that you are aware that you are not God.

Jesus said his disciples would be known for their love, not for their placards of protest and angry letters to the editor.