Quotes about Disciplines

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A farmer is helpless to grow grain; all he can do is provide the right conditions for the growing of grain. He cultivate — Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth
The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love to God begins wi — Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
But I am beginning to understand about the dignity and the art of wigs and the makeup. This small, everyday attentivenes — Lauren F. Winner, Mudhouse Sabbath
. . .fasting gives me singularly happy afternoons. — Adalbert de Vogüé, Aimer Le Jeune: L'Experience Monastique
In the afternoon the digestion of the meal deprives me of the incomparable lightness which characterizes the fast days. — Adalbert de Vogüé, Aimer Le Jeune: L'Experience Monastique
When a person eats shortly before going to bed, digestion accompanies sleep. The two great physiological functions are c — Adalbert de Vogüé, Aimer Le Jeune: L'Experience Monastique
Ask and you shall receive; everyone that asks receives.  This is the fixed eternal law of the kingdom:  If you ask and r — Andrew Murray
From matters as crucial as the death of Jesus, to those as mundane as eating and drinking, the Bible presents the glo ry — Donald S. Whitney, Simplify Your Spiritual Life: Spiritual Disciplines for the Overwhelmed
As it is the sister of reading, so it is the mother of prayer. Though a man's heart be much indisposed to prayer, yet, i — William Bridge
God cares about our dietary choices. This should come as no surprise; you only have to read the first two chapters of Ge — Lauren F. Winner, Mudhouse Sabbath
Jews are obligated to fulfill the particularities of Mosaic law. They don't light Sabbath candles simply because candles — Lauren F. Winner, Mudhouse Sabbath
Food is part of God's creating. A right relationship with food points us toward Him.... The table is not only a place wh — Lauren F. Winner
The secret to extraordinary faith is fully engaging our MINDS, as well as our hearts, because DYNAMIC FAITH REQUIRES A H — Patty Houser, A Woman's Guide to Knowing What You Believe: How to Love God With Your Heart and Your Mind
True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a — Thomas Merton, Contemplative Prayer
When we try to express communion with God in words, we rapidly reach the end of our capacities. But in the depths of our — Taizé, Songs and Prayers from Taize: Accompaniment Edition for Cantor & Instruments
In the words of Jewish liturgical scholar Lawrence Hoffman, 'Jews do offer freely composed prayers... But overall, it is — Lauren F. Winner, Mudhouse Sabbath
But if roteness is a danger, it is also the way liturgy works. When you don't have to think all the time about what word — Lauren F. Winner, Mudhouse Sabbath
Sure, sometimes it is great when, in prayer, we can express to God just what we feel; but better still when, in the act — Lauren F. Winner, Mudhouse Sabbath
The second cause whence these rebellions sometimes proceed is the devil, who, in order to disquiet and disturb the soul, — San Juan de la Cruz, Dark Night of the Soul
The flesh resists this daily humiliation, first by a frontal attack, and later by hiding itself under the words of the s — Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship