Donald S. Whitney, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, 1991, p. 132.
Our bodies are inclined to ease, pleasure, gluttony, and sloth. Unless we practice self-control, our bodies will tend to serve evil more than God. We must carefully discipline ourselves in how we “walk” in this world, else we will conform more to its ways rather than to the ways of Christ.
Donald S. Whitney, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, 1991, p. 132.