Quotes about Discipline

We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.

It is precisely in times of spiritual dryness that we must hold on to our spiritual discipline so that we can grow into new intimacy with God.

I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.

Discipline of others isn't punishment. You discipline to help, to improve, to correct, to prevent, not to punish, humiliate, or retaliate.

The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.

Whether you know it or not, whether you like it or not, the habits you are developing now will be with you for the rest of your life.

Mortification has to be carried to the pitch of non-attachment or (in the phrase of St. Fran$ois de Sales) 'holy indifference'; otherwise it merely transfers self-will from one channel to another, not merely without decrease in the total volume of that self-will, but sometimes with an actual increase.

Elisabeth Elliot is more precise when she explains that "freedom and discipline have come to be regarded as mutually exclusive, when in fact freedom is not at all the opposite, but the final reward, of discipline.

In most Christian circles you will rarely hear fasting mentioned, and few will have read anything about it. And yet it's mentioned in Scripture more times even than something as important as baptism (about seventy-seven times for fasting to seventy-five for baptism).

No one coasts into Christlikeness. Any progress in godliness requires Spirit-filled effort and purpose.