Henri Nouwen Quotes

The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.

Jesus says if you want to have me, you must give up that other thing that has you.

Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.

Discipleship, following Jesus Christ is the toughest thing that you're going do in your whole life. You're not going to find anything tougher.

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.

Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.

Jesus' call to commitment is clear: He wants all or nothing.

Obedience brings peace in decision making. If we have firmly made up our minds to follow the commandments, we will not have to redecide which path to take when temptation comes our way.

The decisions you are making right now and that you will make in the foreseeable months and years will absolutely determine whether you pivot towards the world or towards the Lord.

I just want to grow spiritually with the Lord. I'm keeping strong at it, just trying to make my walk with faith a little better.

If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, the converse is equally - every call to suffering is a call to Christ, a promotion, an invitation to come up higher.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve.

Why the Christian life is so difficult to many is because they have a divided heart. They are double-minded, which makes them unstable in all their ways.

Christian life means sacrifice.

I know when you do things systematically, non-stop, and repetition, that's how you make things happen in your life. It's the same thing in faith.

So much of football relates to Christian life - sacrifice, commitment, discipline.

The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.

Discipline is what you use when you don't want to do something, when you have to force yourself.

Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations.

It is not a matter of time so much as a matter of heart; if you have the heart to pray, you will find the time.

You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.

The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.

Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. What provides the motive, the energy for discipline? This force I believe to be love. I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

To gain the spiritual ascendancy over ourselves, and the influences with which we are surrounded, through a rigid course of self-discipline, is our first consideration, it is our first labor, before we can pave the way for our children to grow up without sin unto salvation.