Christianity certainly involves hardship and discipline. But it is founded on the solid rock of old fashioned happiness. Jesus is in the happiness business.
– John Hagee
Happiness | Christianity | Discipline
I was ignorant. Stupid. Unlearned. I usually get taught lessons the hard way, because God wants me to remember.
– Duane Chapman
Discipline
All the great temptations appear first in the region of the mind and can be fought and conquered there. We have been given the power to close the door of the mind. We can lose this power through disuse or increase it by use, by the daily discipline of the inner man in things which seem small and by reliance upon the word of the Spirit of truth. It is God that worketh in you, both to will and to do of His good pleasure. It is as though He said, ‘Learn to live in your will, not in your feelings.’
– Amy Carmichael
Temptation | Discipline | Feelings
Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.
– Martin Luther
Music | Discipline | Gentleness
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
Jesus | Holiness | Discipline
The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and found in morning prayer. The morning prayer determines the day.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Prayer | Discipline
We must face the fact that many today are notoriously careless in their living. This attitude finds its way into the church. We have liberty, we have money, we live in comparative luxury. As a result, discipline practically has disappeared. What would a violin solo sound like if the strings on the musician’s instrument were all hanging loose, not stretched tight, not “disciplined”?
– A. W. Tozer
Discipline | Liberty
We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us.
– Stephen Charnock
Discipline
It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
– Zig Ziglar
Character | Commitment | Discipline
If I am walking along the street with a very disfiguring hole in the back of my dress, of which I am in ignorance, it is certainly a very great comfort to me to have a kind friend who will tell me of it. And similarly it is indeed a comfort to know that there is always abiding with me a divine, all-seeing Comforter, who will reprove me for all my faults, and will not let me go on in a fatal unconsciousness of them.
– Hannah Whitall Smith
Ignorance | Comfort | Discipline
Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures. – Discipline: The Glad Surrender
– Elisabeth Elliot
Stewardship | Discipline | Work
We may feel God’s hand as a Father upon us when He strikes us as well as when He strokes us.
– Abraham Wright
Discipline
Love precedes discipline.
– John Owen
Love | Discipline
Whirled from off our feet by a revival, carried aloft by popularity, exalted by success in soul-winning, we should be as the chaff which the wind driveth away, were it not that the gracious discipline of mercy breaks the ships of our vainglory with a strong east wind, and casts us shipwrecked, naked and forlorn, upon the Rock of Ages.
– Charles Spurgeon
Evangelism | Discipline
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Romance | Youth | Discipline
God is interested in developing your character. At times He lets you proceed, but He will never let you go too far without discipline to bring you back. In your relationship with God, He may let you make a wrong decision. Then the Spirit of God causes you to recognize that it is not God’s will. He guides you back to the right path.
– Henry Blackaby
Character | Discipline
God sometimes in infinite patience adjourns his judgments and puts off the sessions a while longer, he is not willing to punish.
– Thomas Watson
Discipline
Discipline, for the Christian, begins with the body. We have only one. It is this body that is the primary material given to us for sacrifice. We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
– Elisabeth Elliot
Discipline
Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.
– Billy Sunday
Home | Discipline
No matter how dear you are to God, if pride is harbored in your spirit, He will whip it out of you. They that go up in their own estimation must come down again by His discipline.
– Charles Spurgeon
Pride | Discipline
If ever a monk could get to heaven through monastic discipline, I was that monk. And yet my conscience would not give me certainty, but I always doubted and said, ‘You didn’t do that right. You weren’t contrite enough. You left that out of your confession.’ The more I tried to remedy an uncertain, weak, and troubled conscience with human traditions, the more I daily found it more uncertain, weaker, and more troubled.
– Martin Luther
Salvation | Discipline
Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
– George Washington
Obedience | Discipline | War
The battle of prayer is against two things in the earthlies: wandering thoughts and lack of intimacy with God’s character as revealed in His word. Neither can be cured at once, but they can be cured by discipline.
– Oswald Chambers
Prayer | Discipline
God being a Father, if He hide His face from His child, it is in love. Desertion is sad in itself, a short hell (Job 6:9). When the light is withdrawn, dew falls. Yet we may see a rainbow in the cloud, the love of a Father in all this.
– Thomas Watson
Discipline
Thou art beaten that thou mayest be better.
– John Bunyan
Discipline
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
– George Washington
War | Discipline
Solitude is a good school, but the world is the best theatre; the institution is best there, but the practice here; the wilderness hath the advantage of discipline, and society opportunities of perfection.
– Jeremy Taylor
Education | Discipline
The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.
– Frederick W. Robertson
Service | Discipline
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
Perseverance | Discipline
We may feel God’s hand as a Father upon us when He strikes us as well as when He strokes us.
– Abraham Wright
Discipline
Discipline is difficult, painful, and often heartrending. It is not that we should not love the offenders, but that we should love Christ, His church, and His Word even more. Our love to the offenders is not to be sentimental tolerance but correcting love.
– John MacArthur
Discipline | Love
Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
– Peter Marshall
Patience | Discipline
It hurts when God has to PRY things out of our hand!
– Corrie Ten Boom
Discipline
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Justice | Discipline