Quotes About Discipline

I believe that there is no prayer without fasting, and there is no real fast without prayer.

What is the cause of most backslidings? I believe, as a general rule, one of the chief causes is neglect of private prayer.

The great souls who became mighty in prayer and rejoiced to spend three and four hours a day alone with God were once beginners.

Give yourselves to prayer and the ministry of the Word. If you do not pray, God will probably lay you aside from your ministry, as He did me, to teach you to pray.

I cannot neglect prayer for a single day.

In these days there is no time to pray; but without time, and a lot of it, we shall never learn to pray.

I have so much to do that I spend several hours in prayer before I am able to do it.

Habits of prayer need careful cultivation.

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.

I'm for prayer in the schools because ritual and ceremony are calming and civilizing, and the little fartlings should be tamped down whenever possible.

Some men's prayers need to be cut short at both ends and set on fire in the middle.

Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.

Prayer in private results in boldness in public.

If you train your children to anything, train them, at least, to a habit of prayer.

To pray well is the better half of study.

Prayer time must be kept up as duly as meal-time.

It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning.

Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.

We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.

The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray

Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It's true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.

It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.

To say a prayer doesn't take more than a minute, but you need the discipline to do it.

Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.