Quotes About Discipline

You will not see anyone who is truly striving after his spiritual advancement who is not given to spiritual reading.

We do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray.

What is it to be a fool for Christ? It is to control one's thoughts when they stray out of line. It is to make the mind empty and free.

To make the mind obey you is a spiritual discipline.

Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.

Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one's ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

To live a life of virtue, you have to become consistent, even when it isn't convenient, comfortable, or easy.

God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.

Spiritual superiority [consists in] deep dedication ... in the form of the most rigorous training, as commitment, resistance, solitude, and love.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire.

The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticise others.

If you want spiritual life you have to pay the price. The price is the four regulative principles.

Fasting is not just a physical discipline; it can be a spiritual feast.

A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing else can.

There is nothing more dangerous in the spiritual life, than to wish to rule ourselves after our own way of thinking.

The goal of fasting is inner unity.

When you come before spiritual master, be prepared to get chastised. Spiritual Master's business is to do that. Shisya means who is ready is accept 'sashan' or ready dor getting chastisement.

The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.

In the spiritual life, you must take one step forward each day in a vertical line, from the bottom up.

When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.

Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations.

In the spiritual realm, the opposite of ignorance is not knowledge, it's obedience.