#discipline

If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#christ #christianity #discipleship #discipline #fasting

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. ↗

— Jennifer Lowery

#discipline #love #lust #protection #romance

Discipline isn't a dirty word. Far from it. Discipline is the one thing that separates us from chaos and anarchy. Discipline implies timing. It's the precursor to good behavior, and it never comes from bad behavior. People who associate discipline with punishment are wrong: with discipline, punishment is unnecessary. ↗

— Buck Brannaman

#timing #discipline

A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow. ↗

— George Eliot

#procrastination #self-discipline #procrastination

Okay?” Even if she deserved to be punished, he always let her know he cared about her. ↗

— Starla Kaye

#domestic-discipline #erotic-romance #romance #spanking #bdsm

If you don't acquire the discipline to push through a personal low point, you will miss the reward that comes with persevering. ↗

— Jeff Goins

#inspirational #motivational #perseverance #struggle #inspirational

It is time to reverse this prejudice against conscious effort and to see the powers we gain through practice and discipline as eminently inspiring and even miraculous. ↗

— Robert Greene

#practice #inspirational

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#discipline #freedom #freedom

I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#did #discipline #family #helpful #i

Jean's whole job is to protect Victoria. Jean is a very practical, very orderly, very disciplined person; she is the personality called the gatekeeper. ↗

— Erika Slezak

#disciplined #jean #job #orderly #person