Quotes about Discipline

There is little discipline in government, in school, in the home, or in most individuals. The rebellion against authority is also alive in the apostate church that has thrown discipline overboard and no longer mentions the necessity of submitting to spiritual and civil leadership. The alternative to discipline is mayhem where the nation has become an asylum, and the inmates are in charge.

If you ask me what you are to do in order to be perfect, I say, first—Do not lie in bed beyond the due time of rising; give your first thoughts to God; make a good visit to the Blessed Sacrament; say the Angelus devoutly; eat and drink to God's glory; say the Rosary well; be recollected; keep out bad thoughts; make your evening meditation well; examine yourself daily; go to bed in good time, and you are already perfect.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

Humility - the discipline of putting others ahead of self, the choice to value others above self - is, at its core, a matter of faith.

The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.

Anyone who, neglecting that fixed hour of prayer, [will] say he can pray at all times but will probably end in praying at no time.

The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.

the life, vigour, and comfort of our spiritual life depend much on our mortification of sin.

2.) Mortification prunes all the graces of God, and makes room for them in our hearts to grow.

The vigor, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.

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