Quotes about Restraint

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if he kept his mouth shut.

Don't waste words with people who deserve your silence, Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all.

I am so angry with myself because I cannot do what I should like to do, and at such a moment one feels as if one were lying bound hand and foot at the bottom of a deep dark well, utterly helpless.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Never miss an opportunity to shut up.

Although Jesus' prayers do not offer a foolproof formula, they do give clues as to how God works — and does not work — on this planet. Especially when trouble strikes, we want God to intervene more decisively, but Jesus' prayers underscore God's style of restraint out of respect for human freedom.

I have marveled at, and sometimes openly questioned, the self-restraint God has shown throughout history, allowing the Genghis Khans and the Hitlers and the Stalins to have their way. But nothing - nothing - compares to the self-restraint shown that dark Friday in Jerusalem.

Often we think of patience in passive terms, as if the patient person is utterly submissive and half asleep.

It is usually considered good practice to examine a thing for one's self before echoing the vulgar ridicule of it. But in connection with the Bible, such scholarly restraints are somehow regarded as out of place.

Criticized for including humor in a sermon, Charles Spurgeon, eye twinkling, said: "If only you knew how much I hold back, you would commend me." Later

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

You can see that the law can both discover and condemn sin, but it has no power to control it.