But no one save God and the individual priest really knows what the call to discipleship has cost him.

WALTER J. BURGHARDT, S.J.

Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

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

ERKKI MELARTIN, FINNISH COMPOSER

I am nobody’s disciple.  I don’t belong to any belief system.  I love people from all over the world and I never compare them.  They are all unique, a Zarathustra is a Zarathustra, a Mahavira is a Mahavira, a Buddha is a Buddha, a Jesus is a Jesus, a Moses is a Moses…  they are so unique that you should not make one of them a criterion that everybody else has to fit with.

BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH, INDIAN SPIRITUAL LEADER, (1931-1990)

Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me?  I said, I’m not resisting you!  He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I’ve never thought about that before!  He said, When you’re not following me, you’re resisting me.

 BOB DYLAN, SAID ON STAGE AT NEW YORK, MAY 1980

Until you have given up your self to Him you will not have a real self.

C.S.  LEWIS

Those who doubt most, and yet strive to overcome their doubts, turn out to be some of Christ’s strongest disciples.

SELWYN HUGHES

Jesus promised His disciples three things: that they would be entirely fearless, absurdly happy, and that they would get into trouble.

WILLIAM RUSSELL MALTBY (1866-1951) BRITISH METHODIST

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

WENDELL PHILLIPS, AMERICAN ABOLITIONIST (1811-1884)

 Our deepest calling is not to grow in our knowledge of God.  It is to make disciples.  Our knowledge will grow — the Holy Spirit, Jesus promised, will guide us into all truth.  But that’s not our calling, it is His.  Our calling is to prepare the world for Christ’s return.  The world is not ready yet.  And so, we go about introducing a dying world to the Savior of Life.  Anything we do toward our own growth must be toward that end.

JEFFREY BRYANT (AMERICAN B.1965)

It has to do with being a committed follower of Christ.  I feel as though I am in transition from admirer to disciple. 

JIM COLE, CHRISTIAN SONGWRITER

Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.

BROOKS ATKINSON, AMERICAN JOURNALIST (1894-1984)

Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God.

WILLIAM CAREY

What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and the work flow.

MARTIN LUTHER

We are long on membership but short on discipleship. We are more anxious to gather statistics than to grow saints.

VANCE HAVNER, AMERICAN PASTOR, (1909- 1986)

Salvation is free, but discipleship will cost you your life.

DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

TERESA OF AVILA

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

GEORGE MACDONALD

Those who doubt most, and yet strive to overcome their doubts, turn out to be some of Christ’s strongest disciples.

SELWYN HUGHES

If Christ does not reign over the mundane events in our lives, He does not reign at all.

PAUL TRIPP

The characteristic of holiness, which is the outcome of the indwelling of God, is blazing truthfulness with regard to God’s word and an amazing tenderness in personal dealings.

OSWALD CHAMBERS

Those who teach by their doctrine must teach by their life, or else they pull down with one hand what they build up with the other.

MATTHEW HENRY

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

DWIGHT L. MOODY

I surrendered unto Him all there was of me; everything! Then for the first time I realized what it meant to have real power.

KATHRYN KUHLMAN

Nothing is really lost by a life of sacrifice; everything is lost by failure to obey God’s call.

HENRY P. LIDDON