Quotes from Donald S. Whitney

Prayerful people become godly people, for prayerfulness with God cultivates godliness in all of life.

Porque mientras mejor entendamos la Biblia, más preparados estaremos para aplicarla

Puedes encontrar toda la gama de emociones humanas a lo largo de los 150 salmos. Júbilo, frustración, desaliento, culpa, perdón, gozo, gratitud, el trato con los enemigos, contentamiento, descontento —y todo lo demás que puedas estar pensando ahora—: todo se encuentran en el libro de los Salmos.

No one coasts into Christlikeness. Any progress in godliness requires Spirit-filled effort and purpose.

Freedom through discipline is the idea behind what has become known as "the ten-thousand-hour rule."[9]

The word discipline has disappeared from our minds, our mouths, our pulpits, and our culture. We hardly know what discipline means in modern American society. And yet, there is no other way to attain godliness; discipline is the path to godliness. JAY ADAMS

But the main reason why the psalms work so well in prayer is that the very purpose God put them in his Word to us is for us to put them in our words to him.

From biblical times to our time, godly people have always been spiritually disciplined people.

Donde los sentimientos por Dios están muertos, la adoración está muerta»

La lectura sin la meditación es infructuosa; la meditación sin la lectura es dañina; meditar y leer sin orar por ambas no da bendición[14].

Godliness requires disciplined worship.

Solo porque una secta adopte la cruz como símbolo no quiere decir que la iglesia tenga que dejar de usarla. De la misma manera, no debemos descartar ni tenerle miedo a la meditación bíblica simplemente porque el mundo practica algo que denomina meditación.

Without a clear biblical purpose, fasting becomes an end in itself.

One prayer does not a prayer life make. Prayers without variety eventually become words without meaning. Jesus said that to pray this way is to pray in vain, for in the Sermon on the Mount he warned, "When you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words" (Matt. 6:7).

Prayer involves communication in the spiritual realm. Many prayers are answered in ways that cannot be seen in the material realm. Many prayers are answered in ways different from what we asked. For a variety of reasons, after we open our eyes we do not always see tangible evidence of our prayers. When we are not vigilant, this tempts us to doubt the power of God through prayer.

So "come, let us worship" (Psalm 95:6) the one, true God who has ordained the Spiritual Discipline of worshiping Him—in public, in the family, and in private—as one of the most bountiful means of receiving the grace to grow in Christlikeness. For as we grow in the worship of God, we grow in the likeness of Christ.

Where God leads you to pray, He means you to receive.

The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do in order to achieve what they've always wanted to be."[5]

Cualquiera que mida su progreso en ser como Cristo solamente en términos del crecimiento de su comunión con Dios está haciendo una medición incompleta. La madurez espiritual también incluye el crecimiento en la fraternidad con los hijos de Dios.

He lost himself in visions of work to be done, that always remained to be done.

La mente de Dios y la Palabra de Dios son mucho más amplias que nuestras propias perspectivas y Él nos llevará a través de la Biblia para orar con entendimiento por cosas que están mucho más allá de las mismas cosas de siempre.

Pray over the Scriptures. Christians just setting out on the path of prayer sometimes pray for everything they can think of, glance at their watches, and discover they have been at it for all of three or four minutes. This experience sometimes generates feelings of defeat, discouragement, even despair. A great way to begin to overcome this problem is to pray through various biblical passages.

To be like Jesus, we must see the use of our time as a Spiritual Discipline. Having

Sixth, the Spiritual Disciplines are means, not ends. The end—that is, the purpose of practicing the Disciplines—is godliness.