Quotes about Discipline

Children must be taught obedience just as much as they need to be taught to read and write.

Don't give Satan a foothold, but discipline yourself to stay close to God. He alone is your security.

With the breakdown of discipline in the home and with every source of amusement and instruction pouring poison into daily life, it is not to be wondered that the minds of people are ready to receive anything but the truth and that they are ready to believe lies and ultimately the lie.

We all have exactly the same number of minutes in a day. The question is, how will we use them? Most people today are either too busy—or not busy enough. The Bible tells us that both extremes are wrong.

Parents do overindulge their children, giving them a profusion of material things . . . without the stabilizing effects of earning one's way, of making decisions, of sweating hard to attain some kind of goal, young people are grievously handicapped.

What is the most difficult word for young people to pronounce? It's the word no. When we say no [to what is against God], He will help us to stand by it. He will give us courage.

Obedience is the master key to effectual prayer.

The church has lost its ability to discipline members who live openly in sin. Consequently, we have lost our witness in the community.

The Christian is likened to a boxer, who masters his own body and practices self restraint, and all the way through the New Testament you'll read words like this describing the Christian life: fight, wrestle, run, work, suffer, endure, resist, agonize, persevere. All of these are New Testament words describing the Christian life. It is to be a disciplined life.

There is no shortcut to excellence.

Any problem can be solved with patience, wisdom and earnest effort.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work