Cool Quotes part 3

Cool Quotes in Following Jesus part 3

Apply your heart to instruction (discipline) and your ears to words of knowledge.

·        Proverbs 23:12

The alternative to discipline is disaster.

·        Vance Havner

“My central aim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing—by following Him in the overall style of life he chose for Himself.  If we have faith in Christ, we must believe that He knew how to live.  We can, through faith and grace, become like Christ by practicing the types of activities He engaged in, by arranging our whole lives around the activities He Himself practiced in order to remain constantly at home in the fellowship of His Father.”

·        Dallas Willard

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 only come from discipline.

·        V. Raymond Edman

“I must take care above all that I cultivate communion with Christ, for though that can never be the basis of my peace—mark that—yet it will be the channel of it.”

·        Charles Spurgeon

The Spiritual Disciplines are the “Door to Liberation.”

·        Richard Foster

“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.”

·        Elizabeth Elliot

Thanks be to thee, O Lord Jesus Christ,
for all the benefits which thou hast won for us,
for all the pains and insults thou hast borne for us.
O most merciful Redeemer, Friend and Brother,
may I know thee more clearly, love thee more dearly
and follow thee more nearly day by day.

·        attributed to St Richard of Chichester (1253)