If you struggle with doing regular spiritual disciplines, maybe one of these quotes will encourage you to try again today:
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“The Spiritual Disciplines are the God-given means we are to use in the Spirit-filled pursuit of Godliness. . . . Godliness comes through discipline.”
Donald S. Whitney, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life with Bonus Content
(Pilgrimage Growth Guide) (p. 17). Navpress. Kindle Edition.
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“But the Bible also informs us that there are certain practices—solitude, prayer, fasting, celebration, and so forth—we can undertake, in cooperation with grace, to raise the level of our lives toward godliness.”
Dallas Willard, The Spirit of the Disciplines (p. 69). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.
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“The legalistic heart says, ‘I will do this thing to gain merit with God.’ The disciplined heart says, ‘I will do this thing because I love God and want to please Him.’”
Kent Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Man. Crossway. Kindle Edition.
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“The point with the spiritual disciplines is that they cause our minds and bodies and souls to be re-focused on God. If that’s happening, then you’re doing them right.”
Joe Fontenot, Life Hacking Spiritual Disciplines: How to Find God in a Noisy World.
Five Round Rocks Media, LLC. Kindle Edition.
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“Neither should we think of the Spiritual Disciplines as some dull drudgery aimed at exterminating laughter from the face of the earth. Joy is the keynote of all the Disciplines. The purpose of the Disciplines is liberation from the stifling slavery to self-interest and fear.”
Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth (p. 2).
HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.
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“Cultivating quietness is a missing discipline in today’s Christian church. There seems to be a wretched conspiracy in many churches to rob the saints of the quietness necessary to nurture their inner life, which is hid in Christ in God.”
A.W. Tozer, The Purpose of Man: Designed to Worship (p. 180).
Baker Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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“The final joy in any truly Christian discipline or practice or rhythm of life is, in the words of the apostle, ‘the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord’” (Phil. 3:8).
David Mathis, Habits of Grace (p. 30). Crossway. Kindle Edition.
