Quotes about Restraints

Once we lose sight of God, we begin to be reckless. We cast off certain restraints from activities we know are wrong. We set prayer aside as well and cease having God's vision in the little things of life. We simply begin to act on our own initiative. If we are eating only out of our own hand, and doing things solely on our own initiative without expecting God to come in, we are on a downward path.

And if men are bound with chains, caught in cords of affliction,

So also, when we were children, we were enslaved under the basic principles of the world.

The restraints on men, as well as their liberties, are to be reckoned among their rights.

The restraints on men, as well as their liberties, are both to be reckoned among their rights.

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

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 can be no reproach to pain unless we assume human dignity, there is no reason for restraints on pleasure unless we assume human worth, there is no legitimacy to monotony unless we assume a greater purpose to life, there is no purpose to life unless we assume design, death has no significance unless we seek what is everlasting.