Quotes about Temperance
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
Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire.
— John of the Cross
I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.
— Billy Sunday
I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.
— Billy Sunday
We have employments assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our tempers; and in company, our tongues.
— Hannah More
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
— CS Lewis
Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.
— St. Basil
If we say a little it is easy to add, but having said too much it is hard to withdraw and never can it be done so quickly as to hinder the harm of our success.
— Francis de Sales
Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less.
— Joel Rosenberg
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging.
— Anonymous