{"quotes":[{"text":"A disciple does not ask, 'How much can I keep?' but, 'How much more can I give?' Whenever we start to get comfortable with our level of giving, it's time to raise it again.","author":"Randy Alcorn","tags":["christianity","comfort","disciple","discipline","faith","give","giving","keep","obedience","share","stewardship","trust"],"id":9024,"author_id":"Randy+Alcorn"},{"text":"Be disciplined and disciple to thrive in every situation and keep cleaved to your plans.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["cleave","disciple","disciples","discipline","food-for-thought","israelmore-ayivor","planning","plans","preparation","prepare","situation","situations","thrive"],"id":36193,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"There’s this thing about shadows.They mimic us. They are a constant reminder of the fact that we are not alone, we are never alone.They follow and they obey much like a disciple and his teacher. But when in darkness, they abandon us and are as lost as we are, they seek the same light we seek for only light can bring back their identity and ours.","author":"Chirag Tulsiani","tags":["alone","darkness","disciple","identity","light","lost","mimic","reminder","shadows","teacher"],"id":66896,"author_id":"Chirag+Tulsiani"},{"text":"What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a capacity for faithfulness. Buffeted by the fickle winds of failure, battered by their own unruly emotions, and bruised by rejection and ridicule, authentic disciples may have stumbled and frequently fallen, endured lapses and relapses, gotten handcuffed to the fleshpots and wandered into a far county. Yet, they kept coming back to Jesus.","author":"Brennan Manning","tags":["disciple","discipleship","failure","faithfulness","prodigal"],"id":67107,"author_id":"Brennan+Manning"},{"text":"When you discipline a child you prepare them for a responsible and accountable adulthood.","author":"Gugu Mona","tags":["accountable","adulthood","child","disciple","prepare","responsible"],"id":81900,"author_id":"Gugu+Mona"},{"text":"God’s will for you is to make you more like Jesus. Christlikeness is your target, your goal, your vision, and the reason you were created. You are set apart to be like Jesus. That goal will take the rest of your life to accomplish.' (Life Hacks, p.61).","author":"Jon Morrison","tags":["disciple","goal","jesus","life-plan","sanctification"],"id":96711,"author_id":"Jon+Morrison"},{"text":"Sermon of the MountsMatthew 5AND SEEING THE MULTITUDES, HE WENT UP INTO THE MOUNTAINS, AND WHEN HE WAS SET, HIS DISCIPLES CAME UNTO HIM. The multitudes, the masses, the crowd, is the lowest state of consciousness. It is a deep ignorance and sleep. If you want to relate and communicate with the masses, you have to come down to their level. That is why whenever you go into the masses, the crowd, you start to feel suffocated. This suffocation is physical and psychological, beacuse you relate to people, who functions from a very low state of consciousness. They pull you down and you become physically and psychologically tired and drained. That is why a need for meditation and aloneness arises. There is a practice in the life of Jesus that he noves into the crowds of people, but after a few months he goes to the mountains. He goes away from the crowd, to be with God. When you are alone, you are with God. To relate to the masses brings you down to their level of consciousness, but only in the presence of God, you can fly.With the crowd, you can not fly, you become crippled, and the masses will not tolerate if you do not live according to them, according to their level of consciousness.To be able to work with the masses, to be able to help them, you have to relate to them according to their level fo consciousness - and this is tiring and draining.Both Jesus and Buddha moved to the mounatins, to a lonely place, just to be themselves, and to be with God to regain their vitality to be able to come back to the masses where people are thristy. The montain is where Jesus do not need to think about the masses, where he can forget the mind and the body. In that moment of aloneness and meditation, one simply is. This is the inner being, the source of life. And when you are full again, you can share again. AND WHEN HE WAS SET, HIS DISCIPLES CAME UNTO HIM. To talk to the masses and to talk to disciples is two very different things. To talk to the crowd is to talk to people, who are indifferent. The crowd is resisting, defensive and argumentative. To talk to disciples means to talk to people, who have a basic thirst. It means that they are not defensive, they are open to listen to the heart of truth. AND HE OPENED HIS MOUTH, AND TAUGHT THEM, SAYING.Jesus escaped into the mountains from the crowd, but he did not escape from the disciples.He was available to the disciples.In his aloneness, Jesus is with God. And through Jesus, the disciples can feel God. The closer the disciple come to Jesus, the more they will see that Jesus is a silence and emptiness through which God can sing. And the more the disciple himself will become an emptiness, he will also be able to help other people. AND HE OPENED HIS MOUTH, AND TAUGHT THEM, SAYING. BLESSED ARE THE POOR IN SPIRIT, FOR THEIRS IS THE KINGDOM OF GOD. This is the most fundamental statement of Jesus.With this statement, Jesus has said everything. The 'poor in spirit' is exactly what Buddha means with the term Shunyatta - 'emptiness', no-self, nothingness.It is when the ego disappears, and you are a nobody, a silence. If you are a nobody, if you are nothing, you are God.","author":"Swami Dhyan Giten","tags":["aloneness","awareness","buddha","christianity","disciple","ego","emptinness","god","jesus-christ","kingdom-of-god","life","love","meditation","no-self","nothingness","religion","silence","truth"],"id":117433,"author_id":"Swami+Dhyan+Giten"},{"text":"My dear: in this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.","author":"George Bernard Shaw","tags":["devil","disciple"],"id":122497,"author_id":"George+Bernard+Shaw"},{"text":"Real men don't dance to other people's tune, instead, they play for others to dance.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["believe-in-yourself","convert","converting","daring","disciple","divergence","drum","follower","headstrong","influence","initiative","lead","leadership","leading","men","michael-bassey-johnson","non-submission","nonchalance","nonchalant","noncomform","noncomformist","playing","power","real-man","real-men","stand-firm","standing-firm","uncompromise","working-hard"],"id":124863,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Everything that is online is not necessarily in line.","author":"Johnnie Dent Jr.","tags":["disciple","discipleship","discipline","faith","god-s-will","gods-plan","in-line","order","will-of-god"],"id":127145,"author_id":"Johnnie+Dent+Jr."}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":32,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}