"We would do well to think of the Christian life as the path of disciplined grace. It is discipline, because there is work for us to do. It is grace because the life of God which we enter into is a gift which we can never earn. … Remember, discipline in and of itself does not make us righteous; it merely places us before God. … The transformation that comes is God’s work."
— Richard Foster
Source: “Discipline: We Can Live By It” (1982), reprinted at Renovaré