Donald S. Whitney Quotes

#1. So while we cannot be godly without the practice of the Disciplines, we can practice the Disciplines without being godly if we see them as ends and not means.

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#2. From matters as crucial as the death of Jesus, to those as mundane as eating and drinking, the Bible presents the glo ry of God as the ultimate priority and the definitive criterion by which we should evaluate everything.

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#3. The reason we come away so cold from reading the word is because we do not warm ourselves at the fire of meditation.

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#4. Martin Luther expressed God's expectation of prayer this way: "As it is the business of tailors to make clothes and of cobblers to mend shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray."[2]

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#5. Can we expect the flames of our worship of God to burn brightly in public on the Lord's Day when they barely flicker for Him in secret on other days?

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#6. Some wag remarked that the worst dust storm in history would happen if all church members who were neglecting their Bibles dusted them off simultaneously.

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#7. Thus no other object on earth is as valuable as the Bible, for nothing else can provide anything as essential or eternal.

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#8. But even though disciplining yourself is sometimes diffcult and involves struggle, self-discipline is not self-punishment. It is instead an attempt to do what, prompted by the Spirit, you actually want in your heart to do.

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#9. If you will not worship God seven days a week," said A. W. Tozer, "you do not worship Him on one day a week.

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#10. When there is little awareness of real need, there is little real prayer.

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#11. What value is there to reading one, three, or more chapters of Scripture only to find that after you've finished, you can't recall a thing you've read? It's better to read a small amount of Scripture and meditate on it than to read an extensive section without meditation.

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#12. Consistent, father-led family worship is one of the best, steadiest, and most easily measurable ways to bring up children in the Lord's discipline and instruction.

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#13. The alternative to discipline is disaster. VANCE HAVNER

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#14. Little input of God's Word results in little resemblance to God's Son.

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#15. The text of the Bible means what God inspired it to mean, not what it means to me.

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#16. And in my own pastoral and personal Christian experience, I can say that I've never known a man or woman who came to spiritual maturity except through discipline. Godliness comes through discipline.

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#17. I've seen Christians who are faithful to the church of God, who frequently demonstrate genuine enthusiasm for the things of God, and who are committed to the preaching of the Word of God, yet who trivialize their effectiveness for the kingdom of God through lack of discipline.

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#18. Many of the great movements of God can be traced to a small group of people He called together to begin praying.

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