If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.
It's not important to me to found a school; it's not important to me to have disciples.
For a person to be truly discipled and growing in their faith, they need more than one person discipling them.
Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun.
In order to be discipled by others a person must have a trusting heart, one that listens even when it doesn't fully comprehend or see the end result.
I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius.
Discipleship does not come from positions of prominence, wealth, or advanced learning. The disciples of Jesus came from all walks of life.
'Discipleship' as a term has lost its content, and this is one reason why it has been moved aside. I've tried to redeem the idea of discipleship, and I think it can be done; you have to get it out of the contemporary mode.
A mentor, a 'teacher,' is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher.
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.