Quotes about Restraint
Don't set into motion what needs to remain still.
- Lysa TerKeurst
I have these boundaries in place not for restriction but to define the parameters of my freedom. My brokenness can't handle more freedom than this right now. And I'm good with that.
- Lysa TerKeurst
I want to keep the peace. I want to be gentle, not confrontational.
- Lysa TerKeurst
Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside.
- Lysa TerKeurst
When I am void of power, I am void of self-control.
- Lysa TerKeurst
Quoting God's Word in the present tense infuses our hearts with holy restraint and diffuses our reactions so we don't spew.
- Lysa TerKeurst
What numbers us imprisons us.
- Lysa TerKeurst
I acknowledge that I can control only myself. I can't control how another person acts or reacts.
- Lysa TerKeurst
I look forward to a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose
- John F. Kennedy
You don't have to say everything to say something.
- Beth Moore
Thus it shall befall Him, who to worth in women over-trusting, Lets her will rule: restraint she will not brook; And left to herself, if evil thence ensue She first his weak indulgence will accuse.
- John Milton
Of all people who engage in controversy, we, who are called Calvinists, are most expressly bound by our own principles to the exercise of gentleness and moderation.
- John Newton