Quotes about Discipline

Love is spontaneous, but it has to be maintained through discipline.

Prayer is an effort of the will. After we have entered our secret place and shut the door, the most difficult thing to do is to pray. We cannot seem to get our minds into good working order, and the first thing we have to fight is wandering thoughts. The great battle in private prayer is overcoming this problem of our idle and wandering thinking. We have to learn to discipline our minds and concentrate on willful, deliberate prayer.

True earnestness is found in obeying God, not in the inclination to serve Him that is born of undisciplined human nature. It is inconceivable, but true nevertheless, that saints are not bringing every project into captivity, but are doing work for God at the instigation of their own human nature which has not been spiritualised by determined discipline.

When your child wonders about what is right and what is wrong, don't just threaten him with the law of God; woo him with the sweet music of the grace of God. When she is struggling with what

As a parent you are never, ever dealing just with the words and actions of your children. You are always also dealing with the thing that controls their words and behavior: the heart.

Christ's sacrifice satisfied the Father's anger so that, as his child, you will receive his discipline but need not fear his wrath.

His discipline, therefore, is never the result of his rejection, but the fruit of his acceptance.

His discipline, therefore, is never the result of his rejection, but the fruit of his acceptance.

This means that every moment of discipline and correction must be accompanied with instruction.

Self-control is a fruit of his work.

Principle: Your children need God's law, but you cannot ask the law to do what only grace can accomplish.

Your children must learn early that they have been born into a world of authority, and they're not it.