Quotes about Training
All the Apostles abound in exhortations, admonitions and rebukes, for the purpose of training the man of God to every good work, and that without any mention of merit. Nay, rather their chief exhortations are founded on the fact, that without any merit of ours, our salvation depends entirely on the mercy of God.
— John Calvin
My intention was only to furnish a kind of rudiments, by which those who feel some interest in religion might be trained to true godliness. And I toiled at the task chiefly for the sake of my countrymen the French, multitudes of whom I perceived to be hungering and thirsting after Christ, while very few seemed to have been duly imbued with even a slender knowledge of him.
— John Calvin
Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.
— Benjamin Disraeli
If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so bad.
— CS Lewis
If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so bad.
— CS Lewis
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
— George Eliot
I started training again four months after giving birth, and it was strange not to be fully in control - I'm so used to my body performing at a certain level, but it wasn't. I was like, 'Oh, man, can we go back to where we were, please?'
— Jessica Ennis-Hill
If you do not acquire good training in detachment, you may attach to all the wrong things.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening — it's painful! But afterward there will be a peaceful harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way" (Hebrews 12:11 NLT).
— Rick Warren
The difference between punishment and discipline is a powerful child.
— Danny Silk
There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
If you train your children to anything, train them, at least, to a habit of prayer.
— JC Ryle