Quotes about Discipline

If you want to be holy then you must give time to God and not just intend to.

Breaking old habits and forming new ones always takes time, but it is worth it in the end.

Three enemies that will weaken your ministry over time: Self-indulgence, bitterness, and carelessness. Strong people discipline their desires, restrain their reactions, and keep their commitments.

When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives us time for anything.

I have so much to do today that I must set apart more time than usual to pray.

Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says.

In another moment he was flying down the street with his pail and a tingling rear, Tom was whitewashing with vigor, and Aunt Polly was retiring from the field with a slipper in her hand and triumph in her eye.

Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says. I'm a laying up sin and suffering for us both, I

Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says. I'm a laying up sin and suffering for us both

Then her conscience reproached her, and she yearned to say something kind and loving; but she judged that this would be construed into a confession that she had been in the wrong, and discipline forbade that. So she kept silence, and went about her affairs with a troubled heart.

he's my own dead sister's boy, poor thing, and I ain't got the heart to lash him, somehow. Every time I let him off, my conscience does hurt me so, and every time I hit him my old heart most breaks.