“Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.”

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. We must not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.

Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends.

Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.

A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.

Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.

In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.

Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.

Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.

Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.

Grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.

When you are deciding on next steps, next jobs, next careers, further education, you should rather find purpose than a job or a career,” he said at the time. “Purpose crosses disciplines. Purpose is an essential element of you. It is the reason you are on the planet at this particular time in history.

Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.

I’ve never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn’t appreciate the grind, the discipline.

We don’t have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.

As much as I loved the art and discipline of the dance, it didn’t love me!

Hunger is good discipline.

More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm.