12 Blessed is the man you discipline, O LORD, the man you teach from your law.
5 Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.
33 They turned their backs to me and not their faces; though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline.
11 My son, do not despise the LORD's discipline and do not resent his rebuke, 12 because the LORD disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in.
5 A fool spurns his father's discipline, but whoever heeds correction shows prudence.
32 He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding.
5 And you have forgotten that word of encouragement that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not make light of the Lord's discipline, and do not lose heart when he rebukes you, 6 because the Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes everyone he accepts as a son.” 7 Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father? 8 If you are not disciplined (and everyone undergoes discipline), then you are illegitimate children and not true sons. 9 Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of our spirits and live! 10 Our fathers disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness. 11 No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.
19 Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent. 20 Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.
“Tribulation is necessary for the decentralization of self and the development of deep dimensions of agape love, this love can be developed only in the school of suffering. It grows and develops only by exercise and testing. This may explain the relationship between sainthood and suffering by showing why there is no sainthood without suffering. It may also show why the greatest saints are often the greatest suffers.” Paul E. Billheimer
“Discipline is a proof of our sonship.” Erwin Lutzer
“God does not discipline us to subdue us, but to condition us for a life of usefulness and blessedness.” Billy Graham
“The goal of God’s discipline is restoration – never condemnation.” Anonymous
“Discipline and love are not antithetical; one is a function of the other.” James Dobson
“God takes one as he is and spends a lifetime fashioning him into His image.” Paul E. Billheimer
“The entertaining of any worldly lust, and indulgence of any known wilful sin, is an accursed thing, by which we are deprived of the power of God, and cannot stand before our enemies. Behold, therefore the severity of God, and be more earnest. Make all haste to flee from the lust of the world, especially from the lust of the eye, which is the love of money. Examine thyself closely in other things, and whatever sinful lust harbors in thy breast, be faithful to put it off, and flee from it, else you must not wonder at your being so weak in spirit. He that does not resist the sinful motions of his heart, will very easily give a loose to his hands and tongue; but he that immediately subdues the inward corruptions, will certainly be preserved from their breaking out in any sinful actions. O Lord, deliver me from all accursed things, and keep my heart always under thy closest inspection and discipline. Amen.” K. H. Von Bogatzky
“Every step on the pathway of spiritual progress will be marked by the bloody footprints of wounded self-love. All along the course of spiritual advancement, one will have to set up altars upon which even the legitimate self-life will have to be sacrificed.” Alexander Maclaren
“Every affliction comes with a message from the heart of God.” Alexander Maclaren