Top 107 Discipleship Quotes & Sayings

Discipleship does not come from positions of prominence, wealth, or advanced learning. The disciples of Jesus came from all walks of life.

Discipleship is crucial to our ultimate destiny, but its cost is total commitment.

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

Discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ.

I believe it to be one of the most important discipleship resources we have produced at Ligonier.

'Discipleship' as a term has lost its content, and this is one reason why it has been moved aside. I've tried to redeem the idea of discipleship, and I think it can be done; you have to get it out of the contemporary mode.

The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God.

You never graduate from the school of discipleship.

Let us simplify our lives a little, let us make the changes necessary to focus on the simple, humble path of Christian discipleship.

Thinking that education is something different from discipling our children is a sure sign that we have been 'educated' by the state. Education is discipleship.

Nothing is more important for mature Christian discipleship than a fresh, clear, true vision of the authentic Jesus.

Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

Our Lord's conception of discipleship is not that we work for God, but that God works through us.

Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord's people.

We meet God through entering into a relationship both of dependance on Jesus as our Saviour and Friend and of discipleship to Him as our Lord and Master.

Salvation is free, but discipleship will cost you your life

The kingdom of heaven is worth infinitely more than the cost of discipleship, and those who know where the treasure lies joyfully abandon everything else to secure it.

Discipleship, following Jesus Christ is the toughest thing that you're going do in your whole life. You're not going to find anything tougher.

The dues of discipleship are high indeed, and how much we can take so often determines how much we can then give.

Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.

Even the smallest act of discipleship or the tiniest ember of belief can become a blazing bonfire of a consecrated life.

No matter how high the powers of reason, no matter how deep the intellect, no one can discover God's secret messages without paying the cost of true discipleship.

What you present as the gospel will determine what you present as discipleship. If you present as the gospel what is essentially a theory of the atonement, and you say, 'If you accept this theory of the atonement, your sins are forgiven, and when you die you will be received into heaven,' there is no basis for discipleship.

Discipleship is the art and science of helping people find, follow and fully become like Jesus. Discipleship happens as God's people show love, share truth and live life with one another, making new disciples along the way.

What you present as the gospel will determine what you present as discipleship. If you present as the gospel what is essentially a theory of the atonement, and you say, If you accept this theory of the atonement, your sins are forgiven, and when you die you will be received into heaven, there is no basis for discipleship.

What is discipleship? It is primarily obedience to the Savior. Discipleship includes many things. It is chastity. It is tithing. It is family home evening. It is keeping all the commandments. It is forsaking anything that is not good for us. Everything in life has a price. Considering the Savior's great promise for peace in this life and eternal life in the life to come, discipleship is a price worth paying. It is a price we cannot afford not to pay. By measure, the requirements of discipleship are much, much less than the promised blessings.

St John, on Christ's bosom, pray for me in the days of my discipleship, in the house of my faith, in the hour of my death.

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.

Conversion does not make us perfect, but it does catapult us into a total experience of discipleship that affects - and infects - every sphere of our living.

Live Like a Narnian: Christian Discipleship in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles

Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.

Discipleship is not an option. Jesus says that if anyone would come after me, he must follow me.

Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of the pathway of discipleship. It comforts, counsels, cures, and consoles.

His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness.

In our faith we follow in someone's steps. In our faith we leave footprints to guide others. It's the principle of discipleship

But it's true I hadn't realised quite how much the discipleship of Jesus Christ would involve keeping up with email.

The cost of discipleship is to live the life God has given us, serving in mundane ways the people he's put in our path.

If we are serious about our discipleship, Jesus will eventually request each of us to do those very things which are most difficult for us to do.

Our Lord never lays down the conditions of discipleship as the conditions of salvation.

In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit, a capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship, we are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.

We see baptism as the starting point in our journey of discipleship. Our daily walk with Jesus Christ leads to peace and purpose in this life and profound joy and eternal salvation in the world to come.

To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.

Discipleship' as a term has lost its content, and this is one reason why it has been moved aside. I've tried to redeem the idea of discipleship, and I think it can be done; you have to get it out of the contemporary mode.

What is discipleship? It is primarily obedience to the Savior. Discipleship includes many things. It is chastity. It is tithing. It is family home evening. It is keeping all the commandments. It is forsaking anything that is not good for us.

With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps even to put it into practice; but it can never be followed in personal obedience. Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

In the school of discipleship, suffering for Christ is never an elective course, but a required core class.

Our journey of discipleship is not a dash around the track, nor is it fully comparable to a lengthy marathon. In truth, it is a lifelong migration toward a more celestial world.

Love is the measure of our faith, the inspiration for our obedience, and the true altitude of our discipleship.

In Bright Shadow: C.S. Lewis on the Imagination for Theology and Discipleship

With patience and persistence, even the smallest act of discipleship or the tiniest ember of belief can become a blazing bonfire of a consecrated life. In fact, that's how most bonfires begin - as a simple spark.

Discipleship is a daily discipline; we follow Jesus a step at a time, a day at a time

Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.

Discipleship is the pursuit of holiness and happiness. It is the path to our best and happiest self.

Through discipline, discipline is the other side of discipleship. If you want to follow Jesus, you have to have discipline.

Discipleship means adherence to Christ and, because Christ is the object of that adherence, it must take the form of discipleship. An abstract theology, a doctrinal system, a general religious knowledge of the subject of grace or the forgiveness of sins, render discipleship superfluous, and in fact exclude any idea of discipleship whatsoever, and are essentially inimical to the whole conception of following Christ....Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

Salvation is free, but discipleship costs everything we have

Your love for Jesus Christ and your discipleship in His cause must be the consuming preoccupation and passion of your mortality.

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

Cheap grace is grace without discipleship.