Quotes about Discipline

The Christian life is very much like climbing a hill of ice. You cannot slide up. You have to cut every step with an ice axe. Only with incessant labor in cutting and chipping can you make any progress. If you want to know how to backslide, leave off going forward. Cease going upward and you will go downward of necessity. You can never stand still.

Before you act; Listen, before you react; Think, before you spend; Earn, before you criticize; Wait, before you pray; Forgive, before you quit; Try.

Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.

Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.

The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.

Fasting of the body is food for the soul.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness.

And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.

The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of the discipline.