Quotes about Discipline
The 'means of grace' are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God in Church, wherein one hears the Word taught and participates in the Lord's Supper.
- JC Ryle
God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.
- Charles Stanley
If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day. I have so much business I cannot get on without spending three hours daily in prayer.
- Martin Luther
He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.
- John of the Cross
A man who prays much in private will make short prayers in public.
- DL Moody
Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.
- John Calvin
The neglect of prayer is a grand hindrance to holiness.
- John Wesley
I believe that there is no prayer without fasting, and there is no real fast without prayer.
- Mahatma Gandhi
What is the cause of most backslidings? I believe, as a general rule, one of the chief causes is neglect of private prayer.
- JC Ryle
I cannot neglect prayer for a single day.
- Martin Luther
I have so much to do that I spend several hours in prayer before I am able to do it.
- John Wesley
Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.
- Ignatius of Loyola