Quotes of: Disciples Keyword

Love, its power and authority, always gets there first, comes to believe first, and always waits for the others, especially the leaders, to catch up! This is the reality of what happened among the disciples and the community of the Beloved Disciple, ...

And Morning Came: Scriptures of the Resurrection

The mentor-mentee relationship is ideally like that of the guru and disciple: motivated by the desire of the guru to impart knowledge to the disciple.

Vivek Wadhwa

A saint that cannot cure anyone has few disciples.

French

Fellowship" is a Christianspeak for "flirt with unsuccessfully".

The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University

A Christian jerk is still a jerk.

The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University

For a person to be truly discipled and growing in their faith, they need more than one person discipling them.

Francis Chan

False conversions are a wart on the face of Christian evangelism.

The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

Antonio Porchia

i don't think college is something you should tough out.

The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University

In the evangelical world, prying can be an indicator of compassion.

The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University

Jesus did not command us to "develop" leaders. He commanded us to make "disciples". The world "develops" leaders, the Church "disciples" them. The two are not the same.

John Paul Warren

As frustrating as the battle for purity must be, I suppose it's easier if you've got company.

The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University

A recent survey said that 51% of Americans don't know any evangelicals – even casually.

The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University

If prayers emitted light, you'd see ours (Liberty students') from space.

The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University

Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun.

Gail Sheehy

The author's mentor advises the NAKED method of breaking the ice at the first meeting: Name, Address, Kin, Experience, and Dreams.

The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University

We are called to go make disciples, but how do disciples live? How do we function in the world—in our marriages, families, schools and places of business? How do we live as salt and light in the society?

Michael Brown

When the author admits to Christians that he was not a Christian himself, he says their dialogue became "distant and rehearsed, like a pitch for Ginsu knives.

The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University

Christian pop culture can be worthwhile if done well, but bad Christian pop culture isn't redeemed merely by the fact that it's Christian.

The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University

When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of th...

Pope Francis

The Gospel of Judas really has been a surprise in many ways. For one thing, there's no other text that suggests that Judas Iscariot was an intimate, trusted disciple, one to whom Jesus revealed the secrets of the kingdom, and that conversely, the oth...

Elaine Pagels