Top 100 Discipleship Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Salvation is free, but discipleship will cost you your life.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Also featured in: Christian Quotes

2. “Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.”

— Dallas Willard

Also featured in: Christian Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes

3. “Being a disciple means being constantly ready to bring the love of Jesus to others, and this can happen unexpectedly and in any place: on the street, in a city square, during work, on a journey.”

— Pope Francis

Also featured in: Make A Difference Quotes, Service Quotes, Faith Quotes

4. “Discipleship is a daily discipline; we follow Jesus a step at a time, a day at a time.”

— Warren W. Wiersbe

5. “A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.”

— Dallas Willard

Also featured in: Faith Quotes

6. “The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Also featured in: Good Friday Quotes

7. “Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

8. “We are all missionary disciples.”

— Pope Francis

Also featured in: Christian Quotes

9. “When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Also featured in: Christian Quotes, Suffering Quotes, Sacrifice Quotes

10. “Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes with which Christ looks out his compassion to the world. Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good. Yours are the hands with which he is to bless us now.”

— Teresa of Ávila

Also featured in: Christian Quotes, Blessing Quotes, Blessed Quotes, Service Quotes

11. “Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion – it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.”

— Billy Graham

Also featured in: Sunday Morning Quotes, Faith Quotes

12. “Do not be afraid of what God asks of you! It is worth saying ‘yes’ to God. In him we find joy.”

— Pope Francis

Also featured in: Blessing Quotes, Fulfillment Quotes, Faith Quotes

13. “Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses.”

— Francis Chan

Also featured in: Faith Quotes

14. “Christianity is not a religion or a philosophy, but a relationship and a lifestyle. The core of that lifestyle is thinking of others, as Jesus did, instead of ourselves.”

— Rick Warren

Also featured in: Service Quotes, Sunday Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes, Humble Quotes

15. “If you don’t feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great.”

— John Piper

Also featured in: Scripture Quotes

16. “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.”

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Also featured in: Scripture Quotes

17. “God’s ultimate goal for your life on earth is not comfort, but character development. He wants you to grow up spiritually and become like Christ.”

— Rick Warren

Also featured in: Christian Motivational Quotes, Quotes About Growing Up

18. “Put God first in everything you do.”

— Denzel Washington

Also featured in: Christian Motivational Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Blessed Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes, Sunday Morning Quotes

19. “If I walk with the world, I can’t walk with God.”

— D.L. Moody

Also featured in: Christian Quotes

20. “Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.”

— Charles Studd

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21. “We walk by faith, not by sight.”

— Paul the Apostle

Also featured in: Christian Quotes, Blessed Quotes, Faith Quotes, Quotes About Believing

22. “Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

Also featured in: Christian Quotes

23. “We are created for community, fashioned for fellowship, and formed for a family, and none of us can fulfill God’s purposes by ourselves.”

— Rick Warren

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Christian Motivational Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes, Purpose Quotes

24. “The world has yet to see what God can do with a man fully consecrated to him. By God’s help, I aim to be that man.”

— D.L. Moody

Also featured in: Christian Quotes, Blessed Quotes, Dedication Quotes, Commitment Quotes

25. “Salvation is free, but discipleship costs everything we have.”

— Billy Graham

Also featured in: Scripture Quotes

26. “The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.”

— Francis Chan

Also featured in: Scripture Quotes, Christian Motivational Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Love You Quotes

27. “An hour of study, for the modern apostle, is an hour of prayer.”

— Josemaría Escrivá

Also featured in: Blessed Quotes, Study Quotes, Faith Quotes

28. “We live by faith and not by sight.”

— Anonymous

Also featured in: Blessed Quotes, Sunday Quotes, Salvation Quotes

29. “Christians should live in the world, but not be filled with it. A ship lives in the water; but if the water gets into the ship, she goes to the bottom. So Christians may live in the world; but if the world gets into them, they sink.”

— D.L. Moody

Also featured in: Sunday Morning Quotes, Sunday Inspirational Quotes, Quotes About the World

30. “The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.”

— James Hudson Taylor

Also featured in: Duty Quotes

31. “If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.”

— John Piper

Also featured in: Scripture Quotes, Christian Motivational Quotes, Sunday Inspirational Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes

32. “A great commitment to the Great Commandment and the Great Commission will grow a great church.”

— Rick Warren

Also featured in: Christian Motivational Quotes, Commitment Quotes

33. “Remember who you are and what God expects you to become.”

— Thomas S. Monson

Also featured in: Sunday Quotes, Morality Quotes, Values Quotes, Sunday Inspirational Quotes

34. “Ask and it shall be given you; Seek and ye shall find; Knock and it shall be opened unto you. For everyone that asketh, receiveth; And he that seeketh, Findeth; and to him that knocketh It shall be opened. Aspire not to have more, but to be more.”

— Oscar Romero

Also featured in: Blessing Quotes, Blessed Quotes

35. “To follow the path, look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master.”

— Sengcan

Also featured in: Awakening Quotes, Path Quotes, Taoism Quotes, Teacher Quotes

36. “The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.”

— Dallas Willard

Also featured in: Transformation Quotes, Identity Quotes

37. “Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ...”

— Oswald Chambers

Also featured in: Sunday Morning Quotes, Loyalty Quotes

38. “The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.”

— D.L. Moody

Also featured in: Scripture Quotes, Sunday Quotes

39. “Believe in the whisperings of God to your own heart.”

— Mary MacKillop

Also featured in: Blessed Quotes, Quotes About Heart

40. “Living for God’s glory is the greatest achievement we can accomplish with our lives.”

— Rick Warren

Also featured in: Sunday Morning Quotes, Achievement Quotes

41. “Don’t pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.”

— Corrie ten Boom

42. “I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.”

— Mother Teresa

Also featured in: Blessed Quotes, Morality Quotes

43. “There are four principles we need to maintain: First, read the Word of God. Second, consume the Word of God until it consumes you. Third believe the Word of God. Fourth, act on the Word.”

— Smith Wigglesworth

Also featured in: Scripture Quotes, Sunday Morning Quotes, Sunday Quotes, Faith Quotes

44. “If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

Also featured in: Christian Motivational Quotes, Sunday Quotes, Faith Quotes, Salvation Quotes

45. “He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.”

— Saint Augustine

Also featured in: Blessing Quotes, Christian Motivational Quotes, Meaning Quotes, Sunday Quotes, Faith Quotes

46. “Faith without works is not faith at all, but a simple lack of obedience to God.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Also featured in: Scripture Quotes

47. “Even if everyone is doing it, wrong is never right.”

— Russell M. Nelson

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Sunday Quotes, Mistake Quotes, Principles And Laws

48. “Get on your knees and pray, then get on your feet and work.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Also featured in: Blessing Quotes, Friday Quotes for Work, Sunday Quotes, Dedication Quotes

49. “If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.”

— John Ortberg Jr.

Also featured in: Sunday Morning Quotes, Impossible Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes

50. “Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.”

— Rick Warren

Also featured in: Christian Motivational Quotes, Service Quotes, Sunday Quotes, Dedication Quotes