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
O God, I
have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for
more. I am painfully conscious of my need of further grace. I am ashamed of my
lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; I long to be filled
with longing; thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show me Thy glory, I pray
Thee, that so I may know Thee indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within
me. Say to my soul, `Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.' Then give
me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have
wandered so long. In Jesus' name, Amen. -AW Tozer
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