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Billy Graham
Christ never told his disciples that they would get an Academy Award for their performances, but He did tell them to expect to have troubles.
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Billy Graham
Exercise and proper eating habits are very important, since the Bible says that the body is God’s holy temple, but I don’t think that superbodies equate with committed Christian discipleship. Some of the greatest saints I’ve known have been those with physical infirmities.
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Billy Graham
God does not discipline us to subdue us but to condition us for a life of usefulness and blessedness. In His wisdom, He knows that an uncontrolled life is an unhappy life, so He puts reins on our wayward souls that they may be directed into the paths of righteousness.
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Billy Graham
To be a disciple is to be committed to Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord and committed to following Him every day. To be a disciple is also to be disciplined in our bodies, minds, and souls.
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Billy Graham
We are commissioned to make disciples, to bring them into the same direct relationship with Christ as those who left their nets and their fishing boats to become “fishers of men.
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Billy Graham
To be a disciple of Jesus means to learn from Him, to follow Him. The cost may be high.
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Billy Graham
Jesus Christ spoke frankly to His disciples concerning the future . . .In unmistakable language He told them that discipleship means a life of self-denial, and the bearing of a cross.
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Billy Graham
Our minds must be set always to seek the will of the Lord. Following the progressive discipline revealed through the Bible will result in a walk of obedience to God.
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Billy Graham
Let us always remember that Christ calls men and women not only to trust Him as Savior, but also to follow Him as Lord. That call to discipleship must be part of our message if we are to be faithful to Him.
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Billy Graham
Many Christians want the benefits of their belief, but they hesitate at the cost of discipleship.
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John MacArthur
Why is discipline important? Discipline teaches us to operate by principle rather than desire. Saying no to our impulses (even the ones that are not inherently sinful) puts us in control of our appetites rather than vice versa. It deposes our lust and permits truth, virtue, and integrity to rule our minds instead.
topics: desire , discipline  
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Edmund Burke
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Thomas Merton
If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive; and, unless submissive, then will be practically useless. If, when the soldiers have become attached to you, punishments are not enforced, they will still be unless.
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Helen Keller
One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.
topics: discipline , duty  
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Joel Osteen
What you keep before your eyes will affect you.
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John C. Maxwell
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.
topics: change , discipline  
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Augustine
Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.
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C.S. Lewis
Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.
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John C. Maxwell
Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.
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John C. Maxwell
If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do them.
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