Quotes about Self-restraint

Patience means self-suffering.

The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery

The Christian is likened to a boxer, who masters his own body and practices self restraint, and all the way through the New Testament you'll read words like this describing the Christian life: fight, wrestle, run, work, suffer, endure, resist, agonize, persevere. All of these are New Testament words describing the Christian life. It is to be a disciplined life.

Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.

When you are encamped against your enemies, then you shall keep yourself from every wicked thing.

We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

En boca cerrada no entran moscas [The closed mouth swallows no flies].

A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends.

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.

Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it.

This kind of holy envy comes with its own safeguard. Although I am allowed to admire what is growing in the well-tended fields of my religious neighbors, I am not allowed to pull off the road and help myself. The things I envy have their own terroir, their own long histories of weather and fertilization. They do not exist to serve me, improve me, or profit me.

There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.