Even if our own troubles are great, we should still serve. Jesus washed His disciples feet on the way to the cross.
If we are truly disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, we will reach out with love and understanding to all of our neighbors at all times.
As disciples of Christ, we have a sacred obligation to uphold His laws and commandments and the covenants which we take upon ourselves.
Mentoring is the last refuge of the older artist. With luck, disciples will keep one's books in print, one's reputation alive.
There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
All of my role models, whether it was the disciples, or John the Baptist or Arthur Rimbaud, slept under the stars.
With this pen I take in hand my selves
and with these dead disciples I will grapple.
Though rain curses the window
let the poem be made.
We cannot be tepid disciples. The Church needs our courage in order to give witness to truth.
The church changes the world not by making converts but by making disciples.
There were nowhere more docile disciples of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin than the Nazis were.
Disciples [deep people] are not manufactured wholesale. They are produced one by one, because someone has taken the pains to discipline, to instruct and enlighten, to nurture and train one that is younger.
'A.D.' will focus on life after the crucifixion and the dangers that the disciples faced in the aftermath of Jesus' resurrection.
A guru trains his disciples to become Krishna dasa, a menial servant of Krishna.
I and others may be revolutionaries but we are disciples of Mahatma Gandhi, directly or indirectly, nothing more nothing less.
We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
Those who doubt most, and yet strive to overcome their doubts, turn out to be some of Christ's strongest disciples.
God my Creator said, 'Go and make disciples.' So I don't want to sit and make excuses.
Our deepest joy comes from Christ: remaining with him, walking with him, being his disciples.
The mind is the slayer of the real, let the disciples slay the slayer.
Simon Peter, who embarrassed the other disciples at the Last Supper by asking for seconds. Never got a dinner!
The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, and so are you.
For nearly 2,000 years, most people assumed that the only sources of tradition about Jesus and his disciples were the four gospels in the New Testament.
Disciples who are steadfast and immovable do not become fanatics or extremists, are not overzealous, and are not preoccupied with misguided gospel hobbies.
Among the disciples of Jesus, it seems most likely that at least Philip was bilingual in Aramaic and Greek.
Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are.
The denial of ourselves which Christ has so diligently commanded his disciples from the beginning will at last dominate all the desires of our heart.
Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.
Those who have a desire to teach while coming to learn should not pose as disciples; they must come as teachers.
A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.
The preaching of the Church truly continues without change and is everywhere the same. It has the testimony of the Prophets and Apostles and all their disciples.
Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.
We have got to make disciples. Fun nights and pizza nights are not going to sustain us.
Discipleship does not come from positions of prominence, wealth, or advanced learning. The disciples of Jesus came from all walks of life.
Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
The disciples of a patient Saviour should be patient themselves.
The Comedy of Emasculation that Judd Apatow and his disciples have made into a separate economy was invented by the Farrelly brothers, 'Kingpin' being the strongest version of that.
Here's the simplest answer: Within weeks, the disciples proclaimed the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that He had been bodily raised from the dead and appeared to them.
There's a group of 12 oak trees on my property in California that I call 'my disciples.' Their branches form a canopy over the ground, and I sit underneath them for inspiration.
The children of God all have a cross to bear. A suffering Savior generally has suffering disciples.
Besides, Jesus was a rich man. He had to have been, in order to have supported his disciples and their families during his ministry.
I believe in fate. And in the depths of my soul, I am an Orthodox Christian. I think the New Testament is especially important. What Jesus and his disciples preached and did was a great thing.
Before you can make disciples, you gotta make sure you are one.
Disciples and devotees…what are most of them doing? Worshipping the teapot instead of drinking the tea!
The goal of a church is not to have a bigger building or budget but to see the word of God increase and disciples multiply
Don't let the whirlwinds drag you down. These are your days - to stand strong as disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Let us remind ourselves that if we are to be our Lord's disciples, we must take up his Cross and follow him.
Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism.
Transform your employees into passionate disciples. Teach. Create apostles. Give people a calling, not a job.
Ask the proficient athlete, artist, businessperson, or homemaker what creates excellence and they'll all agree: a commitment to long-term goals - and with a community of mentors and fellow "disciples."
Jesus did not send us into the world to make believers but to make disciples.
Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict.
As disciples of Jesus Christ we have a responsibility to work together with like-minded believers, to raise our voices for what is right.
Even the disciples of Jesus all fled from their master's cross. Christians who do not have the feeling that they must flee the crucified Christ have probably not yet understood him in a sufficiently radical way.
All too often, it seems, we're willing to be students of Christianity rather than disciples of Christ.
If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time.
Reflect upon your own spirit, and believe Him that said it to His overzealous disciples, 'You know not what spirit you are of.'
Luke associates John with Peter in Acts, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples.
I can almost picture the disciples faces. "No, not the drink-my-blood speech! We'll never get on the list of fastest-growing movements if you keep asking them to eat you!
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