Moral Discipline Quotes

The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues.

The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.

Is there any wonder that there can be no peace in a world where everything possible is done to guarantee that the youth of every nation will grow up absolutely without moral and religious discipline, and without the shadow of an interior life, or of that spirituality, charity and faith which alone can safeguard the treaties and agreements made by governments?

Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

To have much learning, to be skillful in handicraft, well-trained in discipline, and to be of good speech -- this is the greatest blessing.

It is not enough to be abstinent with other people. You also have to be abstinent alone. The Bible says that lust in your heart is committing adultery. So you can't - a word that rhymes with congratulate - without lust.

Sanctification is not by surrender, but by divinely enabled toil and effort.

The way to Heaven is straight and narrow: they who wish to arrive at that place of bliss by walking in the paths of pleasure shall be disappointed; and therefore few reach it, because few are willing to use violence to themselves in resisting temptations.

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives to virtue.

What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.

I'm a person who's trying to live within divine law, to the best and it's very hard because it's self-discipline, because the more you realise, the more you've got to get yourself straight, so it's hard, you know. I'm trying and there are a lot of people who are trying, even people who are not conscious that they are doing it, but they are really doing things for the good, or just to be happy or whatever.

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it; the old Christian rule is, "Either marriage, with completely faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence."

Here’s one of my favorite statements: We are never going to enjoy stability, we are never going to enjoy spiritual maturity until we learn how to do what’s right when it feels wrong, and every time you do what’s right by a decision of your will using discipline and self control to go beyond how you feel, the more painful it is in your flesh, the more you’re growing spiritually at that particular moment.

Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil.

And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation's path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.

Each day I see all about me the fruits of commandment-keeping.

To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.

Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and 6 of those words are devoted to asking god not to lead us into temptation.

If men live decently it is because discipline saves their very lives for them.

Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.