Quotes about Restrictions

We hear many persuasive voices demanding freedom from restrictions, particularly from moral restraints. However, we learn from the history of the earth that any successful society has had boundaries.

There are restrictions to entering heaven. The Scripture says: "Nothing impure will ever enter [heaven], nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life" [Revelation 21:27 NIV].

The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of the discipline.

Sometimes we've accepted rules and codes and limits without realizing it.

Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, 100 things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!

Proponents of eugenics pursued this policy of racial improvement through controlled breeding, providing justification for such policies as forced sterilization, segregation laws, marriage restrictions — and, later, abortion. The

Such restrictions indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-prescribed worship, their false humility, and their harsh treatment of the body; but they are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.

but these you may not eat: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,

The First Amendment is not without limits.

Our very existence imposes rules determining from where and at what time it is possible for us to observe the universe. That is, the fact of our being restricts the characteristics of the kind of environment in which we find ourselves. That principle is called the weak anthropic principle.

Jesus does not impose intolerable restrictions on his disciples, he does not forbid them to look at anything, but bids them look on him. If they do that he knows that their gaze will always be pure, even when they look upon a woman.

Young believers get a taste of grace, and they sometimes think it doesn't matter what they do; the sky's the limit! But sooner or later, they face the painful consequences of breaking God's laws, and they learn to value the restrictions