Quotes About Discipline

Do not be your own devil.

Don't break the rules when you haven't fully figured them out yet.

Half of your mastery of power comes from what you do NOT do, what you do not ALLOW yourself to get dragged into.

A master is one who can effortlessly alternate between a free mind and a controlled mind.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.

All my weak days have a common cause - I have neglected communion with God through my neglect of the Scriptures & prayer. When will I learn?

He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good.

Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.

Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.

Every Christian needs a half-hour of prayer each day, except when he is busy, then he needs an hour.

Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.

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.

God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.

Train. Say your prayers. Eat your vitamins.

Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day. I have so much business I cannot get on without spending three hours daily in prayer.

He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer chamber than anything else.

If I can start my day out by saying my prayers and getting myself focused, then I know I'm doing the right thing. That 10 minutes helps me in every way throughout the day.

He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.

Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.

A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.

The neglect of prayer is a grand hindrance to holiness.

Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen - degrees or no degrees.

No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.