Quotes about Discipline
Praising the lean and sallow abstinence.
— John Milton
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
— John Milton
Spiritual discipline: Any activity that can help me gain power to live life as Jesus taught and modeled it.
— John Ortberg
Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it while you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.
— John Owen
Ignatius, when he heard the clock strike, would say, "Now I have another hour to answer for." (Eph. 5:16)
— John Piper
On the other hand, emotion without truth produces empty frenzy and cultivates shallow people who refuse the discipline of rigorous thought.
— John Piper
The discipline to rise early is not as difficult as the discipline of going to bed. This did not used to be so. Before electricity and radio and television and the Internet, going to bed soon after dark was not so difficult. There was not much to do. Today the strongest allurements to stay up and be entertained are against us. Therefore, the battle against weariness, which makes us drowsy as soon as we open our Bible in the morning, has to be fought in the evening, not just in the morning.
— John Piper
The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.
— John Piper
Sanctification in any area of our lives always expresses this double dimension—a putting off and a putting on, as it were. Speech and silence, appropriately expressed, are together the mark of the mature.3
— John Piper
If the physicists seem to achieve their ends more successfully than the theologians, that is simply a reflection of how much easier science is than theology.
— John Polkinghorne
It was a common saying among the Christians in the primitive Church, "The soul and the body make a man; the spirit and discipline make a Christian;" implying, that none could be real Christians, without the help of Christian discipline. But if this be so, is it any wonder that we find so few Christians; for where is Christian discipline
— John Wesley
Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.
— John Wooden