Discipline ~

'Liberty is the right to discipline ourselves in order not to be disciplined by others.'

--Clemenceau

'Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.'

--Roy L. Smith

'To live a disciplined life, and to accept the result of that discipline as the will of God--that is the mark of a man.'
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--Tom Landry

Discipline/Hardship

NO professional football team that plays its home games in a domed stadium with artificial turf has ever won the Super Bowl.

While a climate-controlled stadium protects players (and fans) from the misery of sleet, snow, mud, heat, and wind, players who brave the elements on a regular basis are disciplined to handle hardship wherever it's found. The Green Bay Packers were the 1996 Super Bowl champions, in part, because of the discipline gained from regularly playing in some of the worst weather in the country.

"Endure hardship as discipline...No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it" (Heb. 12:7,11). -

--Greg Asimakoupoulos

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-"Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether."

--Neil Postman

-"Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession.
Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate. ~
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--Dietrich Bonhoeffer

--Discipleship / Speech

'Whatever you have to say to people, be sure to say it in words that will cause them to smile and you will be on pretty safe ground. And when you do find it necessary to criticize someone, put your criticism in the form of a question when the other fellow is practically sure to have to answer in a manner that he becomes his own critic.' -----

--John Wanamaker

--COLLAPSE OF CONVICTION~~~
--Church in Crisis
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--'It's been said that if Jesus isn't revered as Lord 'of' all--both individually and corporately--then He isn't honored as Lord 'at' all. Compromising His lordship and the truth of God's Word to the allure of the world and its political correctness has never been the way of the true Christ follower.'

--Charles Chandler ~
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'Let the separation between you and the world be final and irreversible. Say, 'Here I go for Christ and His Cross, for the truth of the Bible, for the laws of God, for holiness, for trust in Jesus; and never will I go back, come what may.'"

--Charles Spurgeon
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'FROM beginning to end, the Bible calls for whole-hearted allegiance to Him. There is to be no compromise with other gods.'

--D.L.Moody

--DISCIPLINE~~

-"Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated."

--Lou Holtz -Former Football Coach
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--"Set yourself earnestly to discover what you are made to do, and then give yourself passionately to the doing of it."
--M.L.K.
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--'O God, help us to be masters of ourselves that we may be servants of others.'

--Sir Alec Paterson~~
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--'You never find yourself until you face the truth.'

--Pearl Bailey~~