#disciples

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

Unless a person can give reasons, there is, literally, no reason why anyone else should take that person seriously. But without reasons, all we are left with is emotional blackmail. We sometimes call it 'moral blackmail,' but it has nothing to do with morals, only with the implied juvenile threat of having a tantrum unless everyone else gives in. ↗

— N.T. Wright

#church #discipleship #inspirational #religion #theology

Discipling our children is not about teaching them to behave in a way that won’t embarrass us. We’re working toward something much more important than that. We’re actually raising our children with a view toward leading them to trust and to follow Christ. ↗

— Voddie T. Baucham Jr.

#discipleship #parenting #family

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

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me. ↗

— John Lennon

#his #jesus #me #ordinary #right

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

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