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In Bright Shadow: C.S. Lewis on the Imagination for Theology and Discipleship

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

The goal is not to make you a smarter sinner but to make you like the Savior.

Jesus never discipled one-on-one.

My greatest fear is not your failure, but your success.

Take the words of Jesus and let them become the Supreme Court of the Gospel to you.

It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.

No one can sum up all God is able to accomplish through one solitary life, wholly yielded, adjusted, and obedient to Him.

Our Lord never lays down the conditions of discipleship as the conditions of salvation.

You cannot impart what you do not possess.

When God measures a man he puts the tape around the heart, not the head.

You teach what you know, but you reproduce what you are.

You never graduate from the school of discipleship.

A big part of me needed something outside myself to tell me who I was. The thing that had been designed to tell me who I was was gone.

Accept suffering as a part of God's tenderizing process.

A book isn't worth reading if it's not worth discussing.

A Christian atmosphere is no protection against preening egos.

A Christian understanding of the world sees a child's character not as genetically determined but as shaped to a significant degree by parental discipleship and discipline.

A colleague like Barnabas could comfort him (Paul) in illness and keep him from overstrain when fit.

You can impress from a distance, but you can only impact up close.

According to Aquinas, effort may not be the best measure of our virtue.

Accustomed to motion, he was forced to be still.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. A child cannot be taught by anyone whose demand, essentially, is that the child repudiate his experience, and all that gives him sustenance.

A disciple of Jesus Christ is a visible verbal follower of Jesus Christ at the expense of the ones and things that they hold dear. It's that serious.

A disciple can be forgiven if he does not have great mental ability. He can be forgiven also if he does not display outstanding physical prowess. But no disciple can be excused if he does not have zeal. If his heart is not aflame with a red-hot passion for the Savior, he stands condemned.

A faithful dependent, I overlook his folly.

A family that never embraces life's risks never really lives.

After a sharp inward struggle, he concluded to stay and see it out. He should despise himself, more than he cared to face, if he gave in now.

After her initial conversion as a teenager, the author writes, "I was sent back into a world that no longer looked familiar to me. I had to relearn how to do everything.

A healthy Christian life cannot be stitched together from a series of disjointed mountain-top experiences. We need a Christian spirituality that endures the shadowy, low-lying valleys and the rocky slopes in between all those glorious summits.

A continual diet of the Word satisfies, and it builds an appetite for more.

After the original rapture of conversion had settled in, (Bob) Dylan backed away from his obviously Christian lyrics and returned to his more metaphorical use of language.

A good therapy helps you develop a sense of irony about your life so that when you start to repeat old and unhelpful patterns, something within you says, "There you go again; let's call this to a halt. You can do something different." Often the first step toward doing something different is developing the capacity to not act, to stay still and reflect.

Alas! it is but little we have done for our Master's glory. Our winter has lasted all too long. We are as cold as ice when we should feel a summer's glow and bloom with sacred flowers.

According to Jesus examples discipleship is not a program we launch. It is a lifestyle we embrace.

All of life comes in seed form – not as monuments.

Almost anything at all can be transmuted into a labyrinth.

Alex had cooked, and coaxed, and helped Mark form borders around the shapeless days. Alex had given meaning to the word "servant".

A missionary deals with all the important people of the community, but he is never really one of them.

A husband's work as provider will be so difficult that it can only be fulfilled in the power of the Spirit and a transformed life.

Almightiness and wisdom combined will make no failures.

And morning came… It still comes. Our God is here, Emmanuel, among us, always coming towards us, always standing behind us, always standing up for us, always standing with us in solidarity in communion asking us to come with Him now as disciple, as follower, as believer, as a friend, as intimate beloved child of God, now and forever.

And—you can be very sure of this—all who belong to the Lord Jesus Christ; who have seen the all-importance of the soul; who have seen their dread condition under the condemnation of the law; who have believed in Christ and His sacrificial death; who have committed themselves to Him, taking upon themselves the scorn and sarcasm of the world; those who have counted all things loss for his sake, who have denied themselves and taken up their cross daily and followed Him; those who have said, “I care not what happens to me as long as all is well between me and Him”—these are they who will be with Him in the new heaven and the new earth and will share and enjoy His glory for ever and ever.

An employee made a mistake that cost the company $10 million, he walked into the office of Tom Watson, the C.E.O., expecting to get fired. “Fire you?” Mr. Watson asked. “I just spent $10 million educating you.

Any journalist who holds the office writes in a straitjacket.

Any serious reading of the Bible means personal involvement in it, not symbol mental agreement with abstract propositions. And involvement is dangerous, because it leaves one open to unforeseen conclusions.

Apprenticeship assumes that knowing a trade not only comes by numbers and outlines but also by watching and inhabiting. Knowing is found in these forms, because teaching is. We teach not only by our words and assignments but also by the manner of our words and the ways we ourselves already embody the assignments we give.

A question is far more subversive, biblically, than a statement.

Are you following Christ's ambitions for your life or expecting Him to help you reach yours?

A sacred space is not a place to hide out. It is a place where we recognize ourselves and our commitments.