10 Quotes About Discipleship

Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.

His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness.

We have suffered from the preaching of cheap grace. Grace is free, but it is not cheap. People will take anything that is free, but they are not interested in discipleship. They will take Christ as Savior but not as Lord.

Only a disciple can make a disciple.

Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ.

No matter how high the powers of reason, no matter how deep the intellect, no one can discover God's secret messages without paying the cost of true discipleship.

Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

By this may all know that we are not His disciples, because we hate one another.

Because God disciplines those He loves, He will take drastic measures to get our attention if we need to grow up spiritually.

It is impossible to live the life of a disciple without definite times of secret prayer. You will find that the place to enter in is in your business, as you walk along the streets, in the ordinary ways of life, when no one dreams you are praying, and the reward comes openly, a revival here, a blessing there.