Discipleship Continuity Quotes

Greatness recognizes greatness, and is shadowed by it. ~ Harold Bloom

Like many men who experience fatherhood relatively late in life, Martin Luther was a devoted parent. Luther wrote his children letters of touching intensity, patiently converting the joys of the Christian life into a language of storytelling fit for the very young. A home with children brought out the best in Luther in a way that theological disputation patently did not. ~ Andrew Pettegree

Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

You know after any truly initiating experience that you are part of a much bigger whole. Life is not about you henceforward, but you are about life. ~ Richard Rohr

Today it may seem that your anger is very strong, how can meditation break it? But it breaks - it has always broken. Rock is very strong and meditation is very delicate, but this is the mystery of life - the continuity of the delicate can break the strongest and the hardest. ~ Rajneesh

The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life. ~ Donald Miller

Cultures are made of continuities and changes, and the identity of a society can survive through these changes. Societies without change aren't authentic; they're just dead ~ Kwame Anthony Appiah

I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity. ~ Dexter Fletcher

As soon as (Teddy Roosevelt) received an assignment for a paper or project, he would set to work, never leaving anything to the last minute. Prepared so far ahead "freed his mind" from worry and facilitated fresh, lucid thought. ~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

We can't really explain what the goal of mentoring is, until we understand what the church is for. ~ Rhys Bezzant

It's too late to leave the future to the futurists. ~ Sherry Turkle

When the highest value in a community is loyalty to the greater cause, meaning the continuity of the status quo, all means to this end are imbued with religious significance, and are thereby justified. ~ Pearl Abraham

There is still a need for those of us nestled deep within the Christian bubble to look beyond the status quo and critically assess the degree to which we are really living biblically. ~ Francis Chan

Continuity is how you build a physique, ~ Frank Zane

Long novels written today are perhaps a contradiction: the dimension of time has been shattered, we cannot love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes off along its own trajectory and immediately disappears. We can rediscover the continuity of time only in the novels of that period when time no longer seemed stopped and did not yet seem to have exploded, a period that lasted no more than a hundred years. ~ Italo Calvino

We must help men and women see the epic in the ordinary details of life. ~ Matt Chandler

The greatest challenge to organizations is the balance between continuity and change. You need both. At different times, the balance is slightly more over here, or slightly more over there, but you need both. And balance is basically the greatest task in leadership. Organizations have to have continuity, and yet if there is not enough new challenge, not enough change, they become empty bureaucracies, awfully fast. ~ Peter Drucker

Any journalist who holds the office writes in a straitjacket. ~ Harold Holzer

although the stress response was involuntary, the relaxation response required practice.[6] ~ Linda Lantieri

Fear begins and ends with the desire to be secure; inward and outward security, with the desire to be certain, to have permanency. The continuity of permanence is sought in every direction, in virtue, in relationship, in action, in experience, in knowledge, in outward and inward things. To find security and be secure is the everlasting cry. It is this insistent demand that breeds fear. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

We believers do need to be challenged to a life of committed discipleship, but that challenge needs to be based on the gospel, not on duty or guilt. Duty or guilt may motivate us for awhile, but only a sense of Christ's love for us will motivate us for a lifetime. ~ Jerry Bridges

Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington - the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional lifers who are the city's avatars of centrism and continuity - Ford is considered the beau ideal of American leadership. ~ Timothy Noah

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship. ~ Wendell Phillips

The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death. ~ Italo Calvino

In racing marathons, one does not see the dropouts make fun of those who continue; failed runners actually cheer on those who continue the race, wishing they were still in it. Not so with the marathon of discipleship in which some dropouts then make fun of the spiritual enterprise of which they were so recently a part! ~ Neal A. Maxwell

Nothing is really lost by a life of sacrifice; everything is lost by failure to obey God's call. ~ Henry Parry Liddon

There is a continuity in our lives - a strain of music that flows through it all, unaltered by death or pain. It is true that in the face of pain and death, we are very small. But in the face of life and memory and love, even death is very small. ~ Yael Shahar

In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity. ~ Lynn Nottage

There is a sort of myth of History that philosophers have ... History for philosophers is some sort of great, vast continuity in which the freedom of individuals and economic or social determinations come and get entangled. When someone lays a finger on one of those great themes
continuity, the effective exercise of human liberty, how individual liberty is articulated with social determinations
when someone touches one of these three myths, these good people start crying out that History is being raped or murdered. ~ Michel Foucault

Focusing on effective leadership without focusing on a willingness to follow is like studying clapping by studying only the left hand. ~ Jonathan Haidt

I experienced the Church to be this refuge within and beyond myself. ~ James Finley

You cannot just quote from history and above all you cannot take it out of context, in however humorous a fashion . On the contrary history has a natural continuity which must be respected ~ Gottfried Bohm

We need both reverence and obedience. If we worship but do not walk in obedience and discipline, we are emotional, lacking self-control and godly character. If we obey God's commandments but are not true worshipers, we become religious and judgmental. As the Pharisees in Jesus' day, we may miss the real meaning and purpose, even God Himself. ~ Amy Layne Litzelman

Almightiness and wisdom combined will make no failures. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We are commissioned to make disciples, to bring them into the same direct relationship with Christ as those who left their nets and their fishing boats to become fishers of men. ~ Billy Graham