Quotes about Discipline

Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

If only preaching be necessary, let us have none but preachers. What needs there, then, such a stir about government? But if discipline (in its place) be necessary too, what is it but enmity to men's salvation to exclude it?

If every work of the day had thus its appointed time, we should be better skilled, both in redeeming time and performing duty (556).

I know necessity may cause the Church to tolerate the weak; but woe to us if we tolerate and indulge our own weakness.

But a deep walk with God does not come effortlessly. If it did, many more people would have one. First, you must decide you're unwilling to remain where you are. Second, you must be prepared to pay a price. Will you rise earlier so you can spend unhurried tome with Him? Will you forgo comforts and pleasures so you can focus on your walk with Him?

Life is all about practicing for heaven. p 101.

We can save ourselves a lot of distress and accusation by knowing when, where, to whom, and how to talk about spiritually mature things.

The Dalai Lama said much the same thing: "Learn and obey the rules very well, so you will know how to break them properly.

Instant obedience will teach you more about God than a lifetime of Bible discussions.

Repetition is the mother of character and skill.

Every parent knows that delayed obedience is really disobedience.

That is why the key to long-lasting success is to develop habits — new, positive habits that replace our self-defeating behaviors.