Quotes about Discipline

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Perhaps the secret of living a holy life is to avoid every thing which will displease God and grieve the Spirit, and to be strictly attentive to the means of grace.

As a heterosexual ballet dancer, you develop a thick skin.

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.

A life marked by daily answer to prayer is evidence of spiritual maturity.

And so He teaches us two lessons of deep importance about prayer. The one is that faith needs a life of prayer in which to grow and keep strong. The other is that prayer needs fasting for its full and perfect development.

Prayer is the one hand with which we grasp the invisible; fasting, the other, with which we let loose and cast away the visible.

But God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness. . . . Without holiness no one will see the Lord. Hebrews 12:10, 14

I found our speech copious without order, and energetic without rules

God instituted sacrifice not for His own sake but for our sake. The sacrificial law is a means to God's glorious end: it disciplines His people, focusing their attention on worship, gratitude, sorrow for sin, the need for purity, and the necessity of renouncing everything in order to cling to God.

Since men's nature is prone to hypocrisy, it is easy for Satan to persuade them that the true worship of God consists in ceremonies and outward discipline.