#disciple

You will know as much of God, and only as much of God, as you are willing to put into practice. ↗

— Eric Liddell

#discipline #obedience #life

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

— Stephen Hawking

#disciple #only #passion #reason #romance

It's not important to me to found a school; it's not important to me to have disciples. ↗

— John Eaton

#found #important #me #school

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. ↗

— Josh McDowell

#appeared #been #bodily #christ #dead

The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position. ↗

— Josh McDowell

#disciples #empty #first #first thing #form

We need to shed our unearthly and nonsocial and idealistic and romantic and uber-spiritual visions of kingdom and get back to what Jesus meant. By kingdom, Jesus means: God's Dream Society on earth, spreading out from the land of Israel to encompass the whole world. ↗

— Scot McKnight

#discipleship #hope #inspirational #justice #religion

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. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#art #called #chandler #disciple #essays

Whenever the names of the disciples are enumerated in the New Testament, St. Peter's stands at their head. ↗

— John Strachan

#enumerated #head #names #new #new testament

Jesus, Willard says, “does not call us to do what he did, but to be as he was, permeated with love. Then the doing of what he did and said becomes the natural expression of who we are in him. ↗

— Dallas Willard

#life

The test of mountain-top experiences, of mysticism, of visions of God and of solitariness is when you are “in the soup” of actual circumstances. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#mysticism #experience