Disciples of Christ abide in His Word. Those who abide in His Word know the truth and are free.
Being a disciple of Jesus Christ is not an effort of once a week or once a day. It is an effort of once and for all.
Only a disciple can make a disciple.
A disciple is a disciple maker.
You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences.
The true disciple should aim to live for the gospel, rather than to die for it.
If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.
Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.
You are only a disciple because your eyes are closed. The day you open them you will see there is nothing you can learn from me or anyone.
As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.
It's hard to swallow when people say, "Oh my God, you're a master of something. " I say, "No, I'm actually a student of that. I could turn you on to websites for 25 masters, and you'll quickly see that I am their disciple. "
It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.
It is pleasant to spend time with Him, to lie close to His breast like the Beloved Disciple and to feel the infinite love present in His Heart. . . . how can we not feel a renewed need to spend time in spiritual converse, in silent adoration, in heartfelt love before Christ present in the Most Holy Sacrament?
I am sure that there are many Christians who will confess that their experience has been very much like my own-that we had long known the Lord without realizing that meekness and lowliness of heart should be the distinguishing feature of the disciple, as they were of the Master. Such humility is not a thing that will come on its own. It must be made the object of special desire, prayer, faith and practice.
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
Be sure that Christ is not behind you, but before, calling and drawing you on. This is the liberty, the beautiful liberty of Christ. Claim your glorious privilege in the name of a disciple; be no more a servant, when Christ will own you as a friend.
I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama.
If I am a Pariah, I will be all the more glad, for I am the disciple of a man, who - the Brahmin of Brahmins - wanted to cleanse the house of a Pariah. (here "the man" means Ramakrishna)
True disciples are those who go beyond simply believing. They act out their belief.