Quotes about Discipline

the life, vigour, and comfort of our spiritual life depend much on our mortification of sin.

2.) Mortification prunes all the graces of God, and makes room for them in our hearts to grow.

The vigor, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.

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God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.

When an individual is motivated by great and powerful convictions of truth, then he disciplines himself, not because of the demands of the church, but because of the knowledge within his heart

Believe in yourselves as sons and daughters of God, men and women with unlimited potential to do good in the world. Believe in personal virtue. There is no substitute for it anywhere under the. heavens. Believe in your power to discipline yourselves against the evils which could destroy you. Believe in one another as the greatest generation ever yet to live upon the earth.

Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.

As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.

Cease to be a disobedient child in the school of experience, and begin to learn, with humility and patience, the lessons that are set for your ultimate perfection.

The man of virtue will bridle his tongue, and thus learn how rightly to govern the mind. He will not let his tongue run idly and foolishly, but will make his speech strong and pure, and will either talk with a purpose or remain silent.

Self-control is strength; Right Thought is mastery; Calmness is power.