Discipleship Quotes Quotes

“Learn a lesson from the branch.
Although it has brought fruit for thirty years, the branch is well aware that the years of experience in bearing fruit is not a reason to be independent. The goal of God’s training is never to develop you to stand alone without Him.”
― Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

“You have found your calling when you get to a point in life that you keep having this burden in your heart, that if you fail to pursue that vision, your life will make no meaning.”
― Benjamin Suulola

“The devil doesn't need an invitation to where there is spiritual stagnancy, He would assume he is welcome for obvious reasons. Stagnant water would attract unwanted pests.”
― Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

“It is easier to lose a thousand disciples than to win over one.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Standing on the shoulders of the great allows you to see further than everyone.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“The disciple asked: Master, after many years I have become a wise man, so when will I sit in your seat? The master replied: I am not sitting on the seat, the seat is sitting under me! Whenever the seat goes from under me, you can sit on it!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The natural man is self-centered, selfishness promotes self, protects self and provides for self. Your recognition of God will not go unchallenged by the natural man. The natural man fights for recognition and you should give what it fights for. However, the only recognition you should give to the natural man is its worthlessness in comparison to the NEW MAN in CHRIST JESUS!”
― Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

“In the New Testament there is no category for the disicple who is not also a disciple-maker.”
― Kevin E. Beasley, Hand to the Plow: The Field Guide for Everyday Disciple-Makers

“Somewhere between the Great Commission and Sunday morning, we got distracted. We started believing that making disciples was
something for the trained, the titled, the theologically credentialed. We handed the plow to the pastor and took a seat in the audience. And the harvest sat waiting in the field.”
― Kevin E. Beasley, Hand to the Plow: The Field Guide for Everyday Disciple-Makers

“Somewhere along the way, we took the most powerful, world-changing, unstoppable movement in human history, one that launched from a conversation at a well, a call to fishermen, a meal at a tax collector's house, and we professionalized it.”
― Kevin E. Beasley, Hand to the Plow: The Field Guide for Everyday Disciple-Makers