Quotes About Discipline

Elisabeth Elliot is more precise when she explains that "freedom and discipline have come to be regarded as mutually exclusive, when in fact freedom is not at all the opposite, but the final reward, of discipline.

Si usted desea ser transformado, si quiere ser más semejante a Jesucristo, disciplínese para leer la Biblia.

Los beneficios Como hemos aprendido, el beneficio más importante de este pequeño plan es que nos da dirección y empuje. Sin importar cuán cansado, soñoliento o distraído estés al momento de orar, con este método sabrás cuáles cinco salmos debes considerar en cualquier día.

Este tipo de práctica desordenada no ayuda a que el corazón se eleve en oración, sino más bien tiende a cubrir de lodo el alma. Es mejor conocer de antemano cuáles son los salmos que vamos a considerar.

In most Christian circles you will rarely hear fasting mentioned, and few will have read anything about it. And yet it's mentioned in Scripture more times even than something as important as baptism (about seventy-seven times for fasting to seventy-five for baptism).

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

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

Godliness requires disciplined worship.

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

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.

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]

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

The contemporary sluggard won't go to places he should go (such as church), saying, "It's too dangerous out there on the highways!" Or he might say, "If I discipline my time for the purpose of godliness, I might miss important things on TV or the Internet, or become so busy I won't get enough rest!" And he plops down on the couch or rolls back over in bed.

Abre la Biblia, empieza a leerla, haz una pausa en cada versículo y conviértelo en una oración. John Piper

La piedad requiere una adoración disciplinada.

Joy does not come to you if you are spiritually passive; rather, joy is cultivated, but joy is cultivated by things you do.

True spiritual self-discipline holds believers in bounds but never in bonds; its effect is to enlarge, expand and liberate. D. G. KEHL

How can we worship God without worshiping Him in vain? How can we instead "offer to God acceptable worship" (Hebrews 12:28)? We must learn an essential part of pursuing Christlikeness—the Spiritual Discipline of biblical worship.

Ours is an undisciplined age. The old disciplines are breaking down. . . . Above all, the discipline of divine grace is derided as legalism or is entirely unknown to a generation that is largely illiterate in the Scriptures. We need the rugged strength of Christian character that can come only from discipline. V. RAYMOND EDMAN

the ongoing worship of God cannot be separated from the Word of God, which you don't expect to be read aloud or preached on the golf course or at the lake. We are to discipline ourselves to go and hear the Word of God.

Regardless of how busy we become with all things Christian, we must remember that the most transforming practice available to us is the disciplined intake of Scripture.

Worship empowers serving; serving expresses worship. Godliness requires a disciplined balance between the two.