God's house of correction is His school of instruction.- Thomas Brooks
Let the abbott restrain the badly behaved, and the inflexible and the proud, or the disobedient, with blows or chastisement of the body.
Rule of Benedict, in R Lacey and D Danziger, The Year 1000, Little, Brown and Co,GB, 1999, p107
Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of his fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil. It is the Heavenly Father's will thus to exercise them so as to put his own children to a definite test. Beginning with Christ, his first-born, he follows this plan with all his children. --John Calvin, The Institutes of the Christian Religion [1559]
When you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said ``hush'' just once. --- Mrs Patrick Campbell, to George Bernard Shaw.
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it. -- Cervantes, _The Dialogue of the Dogs_, 1613
No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) "Living Under Tension."
God's wounds cure, sin's kisses kill. - WILLIAM GURNALL
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild. Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804)
I would rather have the rod to be the general terror to all, to make them learn, than tell a child, if you do thus or thus, you will bemore esteemed than your brothers or sisters. The rod produces an effect which terminates itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his task, and there's an end on't; whereas, by exciting emulation, and comparisons of superiority, you lay the foundation of lasting mischief; you make brothers and sisters hate each other." -- Samuel Johnson (Boswell: Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides)
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.... Jim Rohn
God had one Son without sin, but not a single child without the rod. C. H. Spurgeon Meditation for Morning May 31
The price of excellence is discipline.The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.-William W. Ward
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