Top 226 Disciple Quotes & Sayings

The true disciple should aim to live for the gospel, rather than to die for it.

Take from others what you want, but never be a disciple of anyone.

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

Reagan's half a disciple of Benjamin Franklin. He believes in early to bed.

I don't believe in morality . I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw.

Only a disciple can make a disciple.

Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.

The disciple simply burns his boats and goes ahead. He is called out... The old life is left behind, and completely surrendered. The disciple is dragged out of his relative security into a life of absolute insecurity... out of the realm of the finite...into the realm of infinite possibilities.

... you are not Christ's disciple, in the sense of following him, if this is not your way of life: rejected and slain daily!

The cleverest amongst you is he who is the loyal apostle of life, the true disciple of existence, the devout follower of love.

To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat.

To be a disciple means forsaking everything to follow Jesus, unconditionally, putting our lives completely in His hands. When we say that we want to be His disciple, yet attach a list of conditions, Jesus refuses to accept our terms. His terms involve unconditional surrender.

It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer

One can be a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ without denying the flickers of the sacred in followers of Yahweh, or Kali, or Krishna

No one whose first concern is feeling good can be a disciple. We are called to carry a cross and to glorify God.

Humility is the mark of a genuine disciple.

Street's disciple, my raps are trifle. I shoot slugs from my brain just like a rifle.

Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.

Our work is not to save souls, but to disciple them. Salvation and sanctification are the work of God's sovereign grace, and our work as His disciples is to disciple others' lives until they are totally yielded to God. One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit. As workers for God, we must reproduce our own kind spiritually, and those lives will be God's testimony to us as His workers. God brings us up to a standard of life through His grace, and we are responsible for reproducing that same standard in others.

Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.

The spiritual master can instruct the disciple though many different formats.

[I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines.

A missional theology...appl ies to the whole of life of every believer. Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God, and every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.

Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun.

A man is born gentle and weak. At death, he is hard and stiff. Green plants are tender and filled with sap. At death, they are withered and dry. Therefore, the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death, and the gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.

The mentor-mentee relationship is ideally like that of the guru and disciple: motivated by the desire of the guru to impart knowledge to the disciple.

I found out the hard way that if we don't disciple people, the culture sure will.

He who submits to discipline is a DISCIPLE.

If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

Even a pandit comes to grief by giving instruction to a foolish disciple, by maintaining a wicked wife, and by excessive familiarity with the miserable.

The disciple is rich not in possessions, but in personal identity.

For a true disciple, the repetition of the mantra is like food.

I consider myself a disciple of Norman Lear. And one of the things he did was topic-driven humor.

Unholy soldier, disciple of sin, what kind of mind are you living in?

I'm an old Coltrane disciple just like I'm a Christian.

The stillness of prayer is the most essential condition for fruitful action. Before all else, the disciple kneels down.

A disciple serves the spiritual master with the sole purpose of getting instructions from him.

A disciple having asked for a definition of charity, the Master said LOVE ONE ANOTHER.

Our work begins where God's grace has laid the foundation; we are not to save souls, but to disciple them.

Do not become a disciple of one who praises himself, in case you learn pride instead of humility.

...for chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardour of a lover, the humility of a disciple.

Discipline comes from the same root word as disciple, and implies patience and teaching on our part. It should not be done in anger.

Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires.

I taught what was clear in Acts 11:26: SAVED = CHRISTIAN = DISCIPLE, simply meaning that you cannot be saved and you cannot be a true Christian without being a disciple also. I taught that, to be baptized, you must first make the decision to be a disciple, and then be baptized. I taught that their baptism was invalid because a retroactive understanding of repentance and baptism was not consistent with Scripture.

Devotion has its own strange ways. It is not something rational, logical, something that can be explained to you. But it is something, if you go on growing from a student into a disciple, from a disciple into a devotee, and you come so close to the master that there is no distinction at all.

A disciple is a disciple maker.

A disciple is an asshole looking for a human being to attach itself to.

In the end, Arik believes in security above all and is a salient pragmatist, a disciple of Ben-Gurion.

I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.

A zealous disciple expressed a desire to teach others the Truth and asked the Master what he thought about this. The Master said, "Wait." Each year the disciple would return with the same request and each time the Master would give him the same reply: "Wait." One day he said to the Master, "When will I be ready to teach?" Said the Master, "When your excessive eagerness to teach has left you.

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

The real guru is the pure intellect within; and the purified, deeply aspiring mind is the disciple.

I can say that I've become a David Fincher disciple. I have been completely turned.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.

Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.

Individually the disciple and friend of Jesus who has learned to work shoulder to shoulder with his or her Lord stands in this world as a point of contact between heaven and earth, a kind of Jacob’s ladder by which the angels of God may ascend from and descend into human life. Thus the disciple stands as an envoy or a receiver by which the kingdom of God is conveyed into every quarter of human affairs.

You become a disciple in the biblical sense only when you are totally and completely committed to Jesus Christ and His Word.

The church is not an audience of spectators; we are a fellowship of disciple-makers

There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.