Spiritual Disciplines Quotes

• Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 14, 2017

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• Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspiring, Success, Life And Love

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 23, 2017

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• A farmer is helpless to grow grain; all he can do is provide the right conditions for the growing of grain. He cultivates the ground, he plants the seed, he waters the plants, and then the natural forces of the earth take over and up comes the grain...This is the way it is with the Spiritual Disciplines - they are a way of sowing to the Spirit... By themselves the Spiritual Disciplines can do nothing; they can only get us to the place where something can be done.

  Richard J. Foster

  Spiritual, Jesus, Discipline

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Discipline, Details

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.577, Discovery House

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• Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Mean, Space

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• Here then is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work. Our problem is not a lack of intelligence or a lack of passion. Our problem is that we are lazy.

  R. C. Sproul

  Bible, Real, Passion

  "Knowing Scripture". Book by R. C. Sproul, 1977.

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• It is precisely in times of spiritual dryness that we must hold on to our spiritual discipline so that we can grow into new intimacy with God.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Discipline, Intimacy

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• Spirituality is about being ready. All the spiritual disciplines of your life - prayer, study, meditation or ritual, religious vows - are there so you can break through to the eternal. Spirituality is about awakening the eyes, the ears, the heart so you can see what's always happening right in front of you.

  Richard Rohr

  Spiritual, Religious, Prayer

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• We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, Heart, Giving

  Elisabeth Elliot (2006). “Discipline: The Glad Surrender”, p.44, Revell

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• Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.44, Macmillan

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• The Spiritual Disciplines are things that we do. We must never lose sight of this fact. It is one thing to talk piously about 'the solitude of the heart,' but if that does not somehow work its way into our experience, then we have missed the point of the Disciplines. We are dealing with actions, not merely states of mind.

  Richard J. Foster

  Spiritual, Heart, Sight

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• The power of God tenderizes and changes us, not spiritual disciplines. Spiritual disciplines only position us to receive.

  Mike Bickle

  Spiritual, Discipline, Power Of God

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• Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.

  Richard J. Foster

  Spiritual, Prayer, Father

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.

  Dallas Willard

  Spiritual, Discipline, Righteousness

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• God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.

  Catherine Marshall

  Spiritual, Discipline, Needs

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• The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, War, Discipline

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• You speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do good to the world? First realise God, see Him by means of spiritual discipline. If He imparts power you can do good to others; otherwise not.

  Ramakrishna

  Spiritual, Mean, Discipline

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• Keeping your body in shape is a spiritual discipline. Its not just about losing a few pounds, wanting to live longer, or trying to look nicer.

  Rick Warren

  Spiritual, Discipline, Trying

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• The spiritual discipline of simplicity is not a lost dream, but a recurrent version throughout history. It can be recaptured today. It must be.

  Richard J. Foster

  Dream, Spiritual, Discipline

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• 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

  Christian, Spiritual, School

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• Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God in view in all of life, not just in the moments we set aside for worship or spiritual disciplines. Not just in the moments when life seems easy.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Self

  Henri Nouwen (2004). “Turn My Mourning into Dancing”, p.16, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• This is the greatest stumbling block in our spiritual discipline, which, in actuality, consists not in getting rid of the self but in realizing the fact that there is no such existence from the first.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Powerful, Block

  Thomas Merton (1968). “Zen and the Birds of Appetite”, p.109, New Directions Publishing

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• Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.

  Andrew Weil

  Spiritual, Discipline, Long

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• The simplest spiritual discipline is some degree of solitude and silence. But it's the hardest, because none of us want to be with someone we don't love. Besides that, we invariably feel bored with ourselves, and all of our loneliness comes to the surface.We won't have the courage to go into that terrifying place without Love to protect us and lead us, without the light and love of God overriding our own self-doubt. Such silence is the most spacious and empowering technique in the world, yet it's not a technique at all. It's precisely the refusal of all technique.

  Richard Rohr

  Love, Spiritual, Loneliness

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• Tolerance, a term which we sometimes use in place of the words respect, mercy, generosity, or forbearance, is the most essential element of moral systems; it is a very important source of spiritual discipline and a celestial virtue of perfected people.

  Fethullah Gulen

  God, Respect, Spiritual

  M. Fethullah Gülen (2010). “Toward Global Civilization Love Tolerance”, p.56, Tughra Books

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