Disciples Quotes

“Disciples and devotees…what are most of them doing? Worshipping the teapot instead of drinking the tea!”
― Wei Wu Wei

“Sermons frequently refer to the apostles of Christ as poor, uneducated tradesmen. But three of the Twelve, Matthew, John, and Peter, wrote some of the world’s all-time best-selling literature. The apostles were more than just literate; Jesus called them scribes “who [had] been trained for the kingdom of heaven . . . like a master of a house, who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old” (Matt 13:52). It would be surprising if the disciples ignored this and failed to take notes during Jesus’ ministry.”
― James Allen Moseley, Biographies of Jesus' Apostles: Ambassadors in Chains

“One by one, these disciples would infect the nations with grace. It wasn't a call to take the sword or the throne and force the world to bow. Rather, they were to live the contagious love of God, to woo the nations into a new future.”
― Shane Claiborne, Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals

“Jerome says Peter founded the church in Antioch, Syria. If so, January 15–22, AD 34 was probably the time when Peter did it.”
― James Allen Moseley, Biographies of Jesus' Apostles: Ambassadors in Chains

“The blood of Jesus settled the score for us to be a champion in Him, to break the satanic powers of darkness, to stop the destroyer called the devil in his tracks, and for us to recover everything that he has stolen from us that has to do with our purpose and our destiny. Whatever the conqueror and the locust have eaten, God is the restorer of everything.”
― John Ramirez

“I am an ambassador in chains,” wrote Paul in Ephesians 6:20.”
― James Allen Moseley, Biographies of Jesus' Apostles: Ambassadors in Chains

“Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?" Pointing to his disciples, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers... (Matthew 12:48)”
― Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version

“The point at which things happen is a decision. In stead of focusing on yourself, focus on how you can help someone else.”
― Germany Kent

“As Christians we are called to make disciples of all the nations, meeting them where they are and serving them in ways that are relevant and meaningful. That is the challenge: as the church, to remain relevant and meaningful, in efforts to reach all people where they are in a way they need.”
― Kellen Roggenbuck

“It is better to be a true disciple than a false follower.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Jesus was definitely not inviting these fishermen into a church job or an engaging hobby, which is how many of us understand vocation in the Church today. If we are not careful, our ingrained expectation of a professional class of clergy will quickly sabotage our ability to understand the ministry of Jesus and the disciples. Our bias builds churchy furniture into this story where there is none. We put our church goggles on and read the idea that the disciples called on that seashore were the first priests of the church back into the scripture. They used to make money as fishermen, then they made their money as ministers. (Luke 10:4-11) This was not the case.”
― C. Andrew Doyle, Vocatio: Imaging a Visible Church

“Todo escritor acaba por ser su menos inteligente discípulo.”
― Ignacio Aldecoa

“The Lord needs us. He needs us to be knowledgeable, dependable, and competent disciples. We need to know not only that the gospel is true but we need to know the gospel, better than we do right now. We need to be in the right place at the right time. We will thereby become the right person.”
― Robert L. Millet, Coming to Know Christ

“Walking with Jesus moves us out of the external and to the eternal”
― Suzanne Eller, Come With Me: Discovering the Beauty of Following Where He Leads

“Deliver me from my disciples!”
― Oscar Wilde, The Autobiography of Oscar Wilde

“Believers think only prominent ministers can have followers, but actually, every believer can and should have a few or at least one newer or younger believer as a disciple.”
― Henry Hon, ONE: Unfolding God's Eternal Purpose from House to House

“There is no way to get to transformation without disorientation. And Jesus' life and words continually provoked disorientation in his followers, challenging their small views of God.”
― Anna Mitchell Hall, Church After: Finding Transformation in Unexpected Change

“It was our beloved Savior’s final night in mortality, the evening before He would offer Himself a ransom for all humankind. As He broke bread with His disciples, He said something that must have filled their hearts with great alarm and deep sadness. “One of you shall betray me,” He told them.
The disciples didn’t question the truth of what He said. Nor did they look around, point to someone else, and ask, “Is it him?”
Instead, “they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord, is it I?” (Matthew 26:21–22; emphasis added).
I wonder what each of us would do if we were in the room when the Savior made that statement. Would we look at those around us and say in our hearts, “He’s probably talking about Brother so-and-so. I’ve always wondered about him,” or “I’m glad Sister so-and-so is here. She really needs to hear this message”? Or would we, like those disciples of old, look inward and ask that penetrating question: “Is it I?” In these simple words, Lord, is it I? lies the beginning of wisdom and the pathway to personal conversion and lasting change.”
― Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“Mitume kumi na wawili wa Yesu Kristo waliamua kufa kinyama kulinda heshima ya mfalme wao Yesu Kristo, kama Biblia na historia vinavyosema. Kwa nini watu (wengine) wa kizazi hiki wanasema hakuna Mungu na kwa sababu hiyo hawamwamini Yesu? Je, uko tayari kufa kwa ajili ya mtu aliyekufa kwa ajili yako? Kwa ajili ya mtu ambaye mitume walikuwa tayari kufa kwa ajili yake? Je, wewe una akili zaidi kuliko mitume? Yesu aliamua kufa ili wewe uishi, lakini bado unakuwa mbishi. Badilika.”
― Enock Maregesi

“Kingdom priority is understood by disciples only”
― Sunday Adelaja

“We are all disciples of the light.”
― Steven Magee

“You should train disciples and followers to work and perform better than you did”
― Sunday Adelaja

“While churches are looking for decisions, Jesus is looking for disciples.”
― Jonathan Hayashi, Ordinary Radicals: A Return to Christ-Centered Discipleship

“I am convinced that the greatest need of the church today is more men, women, boys, and the girls who have abandoned their dreams, possessions, and treasures at the feet of the cross and rise up to be the disciples that the scripture points us to and multiply the gospel to the ends of the Earth (Acts 1:8)”
― Jonathan Hayashi, Ordinary Radicals: A Return to Christ-Centered Discipleship

“Faithful women were the last at the cross on Friday and the first at the tomb on Sunday. What a contrast to the disciples, who had boasted that they would die for Him! The church of Jesus Christ owes much to the sacrifice and devotion of believing women.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, Be Diligent

“The message of salvation alone makes converts, but the message of the Kingdom is meant to make disciples.”
― Sebastien Richard, Kingdom Fundamentals: What the Kingdom of God Means and What it Means for You | A Thorough and Biblical Exposition of the Kingdom of Heaven as Preached by Jesus

“There should never be a moment where there is an urgency to pray, for prayer should always be urgent.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If Jesus Christ and his disciples were alive today in Africa, most churches would have been closed down.”
― Samuel Innusah

“Powerful forces have a vested interest in our believing the myth (and it is a myth) that we are following no one at all. Many of the cultural liturgies that indoctrinate us daily—“ Be true to yourself,” “You do you,” “Speak your truth”—can be traced back to sources with a nefarious agenda. If “they” (whether multinational corporations, politicians, anti-democratic government agents, marketing departments, influencers who just want more followers, etc., etc.) can make us believe that each person is a blank slate, just following the inner compass of our “authentic self” in an upward march to happiness, then they can keep us blind to all the ways we’ve been “discipled”—formed and manipulated—by their desires.”
― John Mark Comer, Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did

“Upon embarking on the way of enlightenment or beginning the practice session, the Zen disciple is strongly determined to undergo all the austerities involved.”
― Heinrich Dumoulin, Zen Enlightenment: Origins And Meaning