Discipline is…

July 30, 2009 by jumblethrift

…small things done over and over in secret that develop in us new capacities.

A little something from Andy Crouch‘s keynote talk at the Glen Monday, for poets, thrift-shop-starters, and you.

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on July 30, 2009 at 9:57 am | Reply Laurie Lynn

Lovely succinct thought. I immediately remembered a small portion from the book, For The Children’s Sake, by Susan Schaeffer Macauly that always stood out to me which shares aspects of the same idea, I think.
Even if it doesn’t share the same ideas in the bigger picture of what A. Crouch shared, it’s worth a quote! It’s a small portion to a whole book, but may be a long portion to a blog comment. Even so, here it is:
“We have lost sight of the fact that habit is to life what rails are to transport cars. It follows that lines of habit must be laid down toward given ends and after careful survey, or the joltings and delays of life become unsupportable. More, habit is inevitable. If we fail to ease life by laying down habits of right thinking and right acting, habits of wrong thinking and wrong acting fix themselves of their own accord.”
on July 31, 2009 at 1:21 pm | Reply Carol

At first I thought you were quote a plaque I have at home that says, “Discipline is remembering what you want.” A different take on discipline than yours, but one I’ve found very helpful.
on August 3, 2009 at 6:51 am | Reply Barnabas

Andy Crouch is fantastic. I loved his book “Culture Making”. He has a gift for defining complex ideas succinctly, memorably.