Christian Discipleship Quotes

I am big fan of memorizing quotes from famous Christians about discipleship.  Next to memorizing scripture, it is one of the key ways I use to help remember the truly important things in life. I hope the following tidbits of wisdom are a blessing for you.

Here are some of my favourites:

1. Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

2. The Christian ideal has not been found tried and found wanting, it has been found difficult and left untried. - G.K. Chesterton

3. Until you have given up your self to Him you will not have a real self - C.S. Lewis

4. The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. -  Blaise Pascal

5. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven. - George Macdonald

5. I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible. - Teresa of Avila

6. No man has the mind of Christ, except him who makes it his business to obey him.- George MacDonald

7. If we do not die to ourselves, we cannot live to God, and he that does not live to God, is dead. - George MacDonald

8. No one can sum up all God is able to accomplish through one solitary life, wholly yielded, adjusted, and obedient to Him. - D.L. Moody

9. The most tragic thing in the suffering of Christ was not the cross but the sleeping disciples. - Erkki Melartin

10. More than once Jesus deliberately addressed certain issues that quickly diminished the number of onlookers... it was commitment that thinned the ranks. - Chuck Swindoll

11. Modern mankind can go anywhere, do everything and be completely curious about the universe. But only a rare person now and then is curious enough to want to know God. - A.W. Tozer

12. When the Bible speaks of "following Jesus," it is proclaiming a discipleship which will liberate mankind from all man-made dogma, from every burden and oppression, from every anxiety and torture which afflicts the conscience. If they follow Jesus, men escape from the hard yoke of their own laws, and submit to the kindly yoke of Jesus Christ. But does this mean that we can ignore the seriousness of His command?

Far from it! We can only achieve perfect liberty and enjoy fellowship with Jesus when His command, His call to absolute discipleship, is appreciated in its entirety. Only the man who follows the command of Jesus without reserve, and submits unresistingly to His yoke, finds his burden easy, and under its gentle pressure receives the power to persevere in the right way. The command of Jesus is hard-unutterably hard-for those who try to resist it.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

13. Salvation is free, ... but discipleship will cost you your life. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

14. I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am. - John Newton

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