Confidence is a pencil best sharpened with paper.
Kale BurtonTag: confidence work character ego discipline work-ethic
He was too explosive for her to touch him so intimately. It would lead to the wrong things. And places he'd banned himself from. As her protector, he had to stay away from her. That was how it worked. This, he could not stray from. Not again.
Even if it killed him.
Tag: love romance lust action discipline protection
When God grabs you by the scruff of the neck then although theoretically you have a freedom to say 'no', in another sense, actually, you can't say no because it's like Jeremiah. 'God, you have cheated me. You called me to be a prophet against the people that I love, and all that I proclaim is words of doom and judgement.' And yet if I say "I will shut up", I can't.
Desmond TutuTag: truth judgement doom rebellion discipline prophecy speaking-up
To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.
Randy AlcornTag: procrastination christianity stewardship obedience discipline tithing
A disciple does not ask, "How much can I keep?" but, "How much more can I give?" Whenever we start to get comfortable with our level of giving, it's time to raise it again.
Randy AlcornTag: christianity faith trust stewardship giving comfort give obedience discipline share disciple keep
Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.
Joseph B. WirthlinTag: maturity duty discipline
Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other hand, desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer.Lack of desire is poverty.
Dietrich BonhoefferTag: desire discipline
There is something in human pride that can stand big troubles, but we need the supernatural grace and power of God to stand by us in the little things. The tiniest detail in which we obey has all the omnipotent power of the grace of God behind it. When we do our duty, not for duty’s sake, but because we believe that God is engineering our circumstances in that way, then at the very point of our obedience the whole superb grace of God is ours.
Oswald ChambersTag: obedience discipline habit
Give me the discipline to get rid of the stuff that's not important, the freedom to savor the stuff that gives me joy, and the patience not to worry about the stuff that's messy but not hurting anybody.
Vinita Hampton WrightTag: freedom patience joy clutter discipline
Children cannot develop a sense of inner discipline if all of the control comes from the outside.
Babara ColorosoTag: discipline
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