Quotes about Self-control

What gives power to all that I fear others are thinking and accusing and saying isn't the people themselves. It isn't even the enemy. I'm the one who decides if their statements have power over me or not. It's me.

if we find that certain foods are impossible to walk away from—we can't or won't deny ourselves an unhealthy choice in order to make a healthier choice—then it's a clue we are being ruled by this food on some level.

And somehow becoming a woman of self-discipline honors God and helps me live the godly characteristic of self-control.

I acknowledge that I can control only myself. I can't control how another person acts or reacts.

Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny.

God's supernatural self-control is available to us when we walk by the Spirit.

Change yourself — you are in control."

The Mortification Of Sin In Particular Described

2.) Mortification prunes all the graces of God, and makes room for them in our hearts to grow.

The cause of most of man's unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.

Believe in yourselves as sons and daughters of God, men and women with unlimited potential to do good in the world. Believe in personal virtue. There is no substitute for it anywhere under the. heavens. Believe in your power to discipline yourselves against the evils which could destroy you. Believe in one another as the greatest generation ever yet to live upon the earth.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.