#discipline

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, whether you like it or not. ↗

— Thomas Henry Huxley

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Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

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So do not expect always to get an emotional charge or a feeling of quiet peace when you read the Bible. By the grace of God you may expect that to be a frequent experience, but often you will get no emotional response at all. Let the Word break over your heart and mind again and again as the years go by, and imperceptibly there will come great changes in your attitude and outlook and conduct. You will probably be the last to recognize these. Often you will feel very, very small, because when your eyes close for the last time in death, and never again read the Word of God in Scripture you will open them to the Word of God in the flesh, that same Jesus of the Bible whom you have known for so lng, standing before you to take you for ever to His eternal home. ↗

— Geoffrey Thomas

#attitude

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 Moore

#discipline #parenting #family

When a person eats shortly before going to bed, digestion accompanies sleep. The two great physiological functions are completed together, leaving the maximum of freedom to the mind during the day. ↗

— Adalbert de Vogüé

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Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

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While the government is "studying" and funding and organizing its Big Thought, nothing is being done. But the citizen who is willing to Think Little, and, accepting the discipline of that, to go ahead on his own, is already solving the problem. A man who is trying to live as a neighbor to his neighbors will have a lively and practical understanding of the work of peace and brotherhood, and let there be no mistake about it - he is doing that work... A man who is willing to undertake the discipline and the difficulty of mending his own ways is worth more to the conservation movement than a hundred who are insisting merely that the government and the industries mend their ways. (pg.87, "Think Little") ↗

— Wendell Berry

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A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation. ↗

— Max Gluckman

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One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier. ↗

— Helen Keller

#duty #life

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

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