Quotes about Restraint
it is extremely trying when one has once tasted pleasure to abstain from its enticements, so the reward of doing this is proportionately great.
— Jerome
Take Care not to have an itching tongue, nor tingling ears; neither attract others, nor listen to backbiters. [Letter to Nepotian]
— Jerome
We do not know why God allowed the enemies of His people to prevail at one time and restrained them at another. It is enough to know that God can and does restrain the harmful acts of others toward us when that is His sovereign will. Furthermore, God, in His infinite wisdom and love, intends that good ultimately comes from those harmful acts. The
— Jerry Bridges
not have swooped down upon Jacob and his family to avenge the crime of Jacob's sons except that God restrained them through a fear that could not be rationally explained.
— Jerry Bridges
Yet God said that no other nation would covet the land of the Israelites, even during their vulnerable and defenseless times. God can restrain not only people's actions, but even their most deeply rooted desires. No part of the human heart is impervious to God's sovereign but mysterious control.
— Jerry Bridges
God does not always restrain the wicked and harmful actions of others toward His people.
— Jerry Bridges
You oughtn't to ever do anything too long.
— Ernest Hemingway
Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.
— Joyce Meyer
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
if God took his hands off this fallen world so that there were no restraint on human wickedness, we would make hell. Thus if you allow a whole lot of sinners to live somewhere in a confined place where they're not doing damage to anyone but themselves, what do you get but hell? There's a sense in which they're doing it to themselves, and it's what they want because they still don't repent.
— Lee Strobel
Our first response when angered should be to turn away momentarily, mentally or physically, so we can separate the offense from the offender.
— Lisa Bevere
When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.
— Epictetus