Quotes about Dedication

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For many centuries, nobles and magnates supported artists, musicians and authors so that their creative works would be dedicated to them.

There are a great many "wetless" bathing suits worn at the seashore, but no one ever learns to swim in them. To plunge is the only way.

We fail to be disciples only because we do not decide to be. We do not intend to be disciples. It is the power of the decision and the intention over our life that is missing. We should apprentice ourselves to Jesus in a solemn moment, and we should let those around us know that we have done so.

If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you you are embarking on something which is going to take the whole of you, brains and all…. One reason why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.

Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.

This is the essence of the death-to-self life: that we should no longer live for ourselves, but for him who died for us and rose again.

But the final step in becoming a disciple is decision. We become a life student of Jesus by deciding.

But this is an age for spiritual heroes—a time for men and women to be heroic in faith and in spiritual character and power.

The governing assumption today, among professing Christians, is that we can be "Christians" forever and never become disciples.

When we give up the smaller, everyday things we are training for times when greater sacrifice is required.

When you start to do the things that you truly love, it wouldn't matter whether it is Monday or Friday; you would be so excited to wake up each morning to work on your passions.