#disciples

The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#discipline #emotion #life

Individually the disciple and friend of Jesus who has learned to work shoulder to shoulder with his or her Lord stands in this world as a point of contact between heaven and earth, a kind of Jacob’s ladder by which the angels of God may ascend from and descend into human life. Thus the disciple stands as an envoy or a receiver by which the kingdom of God is conveyed into every quarter of human affairs. ↗

— Dallas Willard

#life

Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#failure #life

The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us, and carry out, in our ordinary conduct; the insignficances of daily life are the importances and the tests of eternity, because they prove what really is the spirit that possesses us. ↗

— Andrew Murray

#humility #relationships #life

Never go into venture capital if you want a peaceful life. ↗

— Georges F. Doriot

#risk #life

We are not built for mountains and dawns and artistic affinities; they are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff of life, and this is where we have to prove our mettle. A false Christianity takes us up on the mount and we want to stay there. But what about the devil-possessed world? Oh, let it go to hell! We are having a great time up here. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#hell #inspirational

[God says] Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend - it must transcend all comprehension. Plunge into the deep waters beyond your own comprehension, and I will help you to comprehend even as I do. Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge. My comprehension transcends yours. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#comprehension #disciple #discipleship #faith #god

‎Those who aren't following Jesus aren't his followers. It's that simple. Followers follow, and those who don't follow aren't followers. To follow Jesus means to follow Jesus into a society where justice rules, where love shapes everything. To follow Jesus means to take up his dream and work for it. ↗

— Scot McKnight

#church #discipleship #faith #jesus #religion

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

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