Discipline Christian Quotes

#1. Prayer is an investment. The time you dedicate to prayer isn't lost; it will return dividends far greater than what a few moments spent on a task ever could. If we fail to cultivate this discipline, prayer winds up being our last resort rather than our first response.

Charles R. Swindoll

#2. So you can't demand the broken to live as if they were whole. Discipline is not the issue; apply discipline and you'll make it worse. What is needed is healing.

John Eldredge

#3. It is better to be a discipline than a follower.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. Life is a curriculum unique to every student.

Joyce Rachelle

#5. The discipline of fasting releases the anointing, the favor, and the blessing of God in the life of a Christian.

Jentezen Franklin

#6. The organized churches must become schools of spiritual discipline where Christians are taught how to own without treasuring (Matt. 6:21); how to possess without, like the "rich young ruler," being possessed (Mark 10:22); how to live simply, even frugally, though controlling great wealth and power.

Dallas Willard

#7. Christianity teaches righteousness, not rights. It emphasizes honor, not equality. A Christian's concern is what is owed to the other, not what is owed to himself.

Elisabeth Elliot

#8. My mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her conviction, her discipline. She would rather see other people happy than herself.

Barry Sanders

#9. Simply to render oneself able to understand what other Christian thinkers have themselves come to understand and to more or less felicitously communicate requires that one's mind not be a blank slate but already properly formed, disciplined, and exercised.

Gregory B. Sadler

#10. Exercise and proper eating habits are very important, since the Bible says that the body is God's holy temple, but I don't think that superbodies equate with committed Christian discipleship. Some of the greatest saints I've known have been those with physical infirmities.

Billy Graham

#11. Do you need strength? Peace? Wisdom? Direction? Discipline? Ask for it! God will hear you.

Charles R. Swindoll

#12. If your life consistently bears no fruit, God will intervene to discipline you. If your life bears some fruit, God will intervene to prune you. If your life bears a lot of fruit, God will invite you to abide more deeply with Him.

Bruce Wilkinson

#13. Wisdom is spiritual discipline.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. 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.

Donald S. Whitney

#15. Humility - the discipline of putting others ahead of self, the choice to value others above self - is, at its core, a matter of faith.

Charles R. Swindoll

#16. There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.

D. A. Carson

#17. It's not about the extent to which something happened or did not happen; it's whether we choose to confront evil and call it what it is, or simply let it pass because it 'wasn't enough of a big deal'.

Joyce Rachelle

#18. Be disciplined and effective in your relationship with God

Sunday Adelaja

#19. And when you speak with him," I said, "tell him to stop hitting his wife." Erkenwald jerked as though I had just struck him in the face. "It is his Christian duty," he said stiffly, "to discipline his wife, and it is her duty to submit. Did you not listen to what I preached?

Bernard Cornwell

#20. We are fighting the greatest battle of all time with the most untrained army on earth. If strict discipline is necessary in art and athletics, how can we expect to be advanced Christians and stay in kindergarten?

Vance Havner

#21. Discipline is the wholehearted yes to the call of God. When I know myself called, summoned, addressed, taken possession of, known, acted upon, I have heard the Master. I put myself gladly, fully, and forever at His disposal, and to whatever He says my answer is yes.

Elisabeth Elliot

#22. The purpose of God's discipline is not to punish us but to transform us.

Jerry Bridges

#23. If we don't discipline ourselves, God will make certain we are disciplined by others.

Jamie Buckingham

#24. Discipleship is a daily discipline; we follow Jesus a step at a time, a day at a time

Warren W. Wiersbe

#25. Nothing has done more damage to the Christian view of life than the hideous notion that those who are truly spiritual have lost all interest in the world and its beauties.

Elisabeth Elliot

#26. Prayer is the one discipline in the Christian faith that makes us feel entirely dependent on God and thus sets us up for profound disappointment when God doesn't respond to our needs and requests.

Gerald L. Sittser

#27. The best way to overcome the world is not with morality or self-discipline. Christians overcome the world by seeing the beauty and excellence of Christ. They overcome the world by seeing something more attractive than the world: Christ

Thomas Chalmers

#28. Never fear dying, beloved. Dying is the last, but the least matter that a Christian has to be anxious about. Fear living ... that is a hard battle to fight, a stern discipline to endure, a rough voyage to undergo.

Charles Spurgeon

#29. Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial ... C hristianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#30. Personal discipline is a most powerful character quality and one worthy of dedicating your life to nurturing.

Elizabeth George

#31. Teaching our children to be well-behaved, good citizens is proper as far as it goes. But we must never mistake this training for Christian nurture or discipline, nor should we mistake their acquiescence to our social mores as true Christian righteousness.

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

#32. Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only Fools despise wisdom and discipline.
Proverbs 1:7 NLT

Eddie Johnson

#33. A Christian understanding of the world sees a child's character not as genetically determined but as shaped to a significant degree by parental discipleship and discipline.

Russell D. Moore

#34. It is no accident that the words discipline and disciple resemble each other in the English language. The most common word in the Gospels for a Christian is disciple.

Billy Graham

#35. Discipline, for the Christian, begins with the body. We have only one. It is this body that is the primary material given to us for sacrifice. We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.

Elisabeth Elliot

#36. There are many who say they want to be victorious Christians, but few are willing to endure the discipline necessary to make one a good solider of Jesus Christ. There is a prize to possess, but before we possess it there is a price to be paid, and few will pay it.

Vance Havner

#37. Christianity is more than just a belief; it is a life of discipline, a firm determination to live a life of prayer and contemplation, a life of self-denial and Christlikeness.

Ramon M. Torres