Those who teach by their doctrine must teach by their life, or else they pull down with one hand what they build up with the other.
Our Lord's conception of discipleship is not that we work for God, but that God works through us.
We can tell much by what we have already willing discarded along the pathway of discipleship. It is the only pathway where littering is permissible, even encouraged. In the early stages, the debris left behind includes the grosser sins of commission. Later debris differs; things begin to be discarded which have caused the misuse or underuse of our time and talent.
If we are serious about our discipleship, Jesus will eventually request each of us to do those very things which are most difficult for us to do.
Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard.
Discipleship is not an option. Jesus says that if anyone would come after me, he must follow me.
Cheap grace is grace without discipleship.
You will know as much of God, and only as much of God, as you are willing to put into practice.
In Bright Shadow: C. S. Lewis on the Imagination for Theology and Discipleship
Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
Our problem is that we are in the Word but not under the Word.
Live Like a Narnian: Christian Discipleship in C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
Salvation is free, but discipleship will cost you your life
Take the words of Jesus and let them become the Supreme Court of the Gospel to you.
The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God.
Our Lord never lays down the conditions of discipleship as the conditions of salvation.
Discipleship is crucial to our ultimate destiny, but its cost is total commitment.
My greatest fear is not your failure, but your success.
Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.