The eager desire for discipline gives birth to love. Hence the proper attention to discipline is love. For if you love discipline, you love virtue in yourself and in others and in its very Source. Discipline, however, does not have to be servile: it may be free, so that it loves the one who imposes it, and acts out of love, not out of fear.
[St. Bonaventure, Collations on the Six Days (2.4), in The Works of Bonaventure: Cardinal, Seraphic Doctor, and Saint, Volume 5, De Vinck, tr., St. Anthony Guild Press (Paterson, NJ: 1960) p. 17.]
