Discipline Quote by Richard J. Foster

“In “The Cost of Discipleship” Dietrich Bonhoeffer makes it clear that grace is free, but it is not cheap. The grace of God is…

— Richard J. Foster

The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.

— Anonymous

“I hate the word discipline,” she said. “I already feel guilty, and I haven’t even gone yet.” “I know,” said Dawn. “Lots of people…

— Sharon Garlough Brown

There is absolutely no power in our human effort to live holy. It is only by His grace. And the result of receiving grace…

— Joyce Meyer

Too often in the west we fail to realize that even in eastern disciplines the spiritual life is not meant as an escape from…

— James Hillman

The power of God tenderizes and changes us, not spiritual disciplines. Spiritual disciplines only position us to receive.

— Mike Bickle

In intellectual honesty, we should be willing to study and explore the spiritual life with all the rigor and determination we would give to…

— Richard J. Foster

“Learn that trust precedes faith. Faith is a little like putting your car into gear, and right now you cannot exercise faith, you cannot…

— Richard J. Foster

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

— Donald Miller

In terms of the unemployed, of which we have over a million-and-a-half, don't feel particularly bad for many of these people. They don't feel…

— Stephen Harper

American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield,…

— John Yoo

A man, as a man, could arrive at all the dignity that a man was capable of obtaining or receiving; but it needed a…

— John Taylor

In the olden days in England, you could be hung for stealing a sheep or a loaf of bread. However, if a sheep stole…

— Mike Harding

I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This…

— Katrina Kenison

If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other…

— Ludwig von Mises