Quotes about Restraint

We lose the right of complaining sometimes by forbearing it.

'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

No man is free who is not a master of himself, that the more liberties we enjoy, the more discipline we need.

Ye shall kindle no fire—not even the fire of righteous indignation.

There must be a law if there is to be liberty. Try to play a piano and you will run into laws as fixed as the decrees of the Medes and Persians. But through those statutes you reach the songs, drudgery leads to delight. The law of Christ brings the liberty of Christ. Keep His statutes, and they become songs. The other side of commandment is conquest. What seems restraint to the outsider means release to you.

Repression, a degree of restraint, and a little dedication to self-editing belong to love just as surely as a capacity for explicit confession.

Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian's life.

Life in a prison cell may well be compared to Advent; one waits, hopes, and does this, that, or the other - things that are really of no consequence — the door is shut, and can be opened only from the outside.

The disciples are not to judge. If they do so, they will themselves be judged by God. The sword wherewith they judge their brethren will fall upon their own heads. Instead of cutting themselves off from their brother as the just from the unjust, they find themselves cut off from Jesus.

He who holds his tongue in check controls both mind and body. Thus it must be a decisive rule of every Christian fellowship that each individual is prohibited from saying much that occurs to him.

Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.

I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do.