Whereas discipline without discipleship leads to rigid formalism, discipleship without discipline ends in sentimental romanticism.
- Henri Nouwen
When we are all mind, things can get rigid.
- Arianna Huffington
When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.
- Brennan Manning
Important principles may and must be inflexible.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is the fault of the orders, which are too rigid. There is no allowance for a change in circumstance.
- Ernest Hemingway
He spoke in a series of gruff barks, and held himself so rigidly that if he had swallowed a poker it could only have produced unseemly curves and flexions in his figure.