#disciple

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

Many pastors have been reduced to secular "mentors" and "coaches" in exchange for authentic disciplers of men. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#john-paul-warren #leadershio #mentors #men

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

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

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#artist #child #disciple #doubt #even

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

Let not him who accepts light in an instant despise him who gropes months in shadows. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#salvation #life

I do not politicize Christianity nor my discipleship as Jesus did not politicize either His divinity nor his humanity. ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#discipleship #humanity-humans #politicization #r-alan-woods #r-alan-woods