Quotes
Quotes about Restraint
The work under our labour grows,
Luxurious by restraint.
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
Yet God hath not only granted these faculties, by which we may bear every event without being depressed or broken by it, but like a good prince and a true father, hath placed their exercise above restraint, compulsion, or hindrance, and wholly without our own control.
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint. [Lat., Auro pulsa fides. auro venalia jura, Aurum lex sequitur, mox sine lege pudor.]
Jesus will prevail. His Church will prevail. Everything else is just passing away. Our current leadership [of the Episcopal Church USA] will die one day, as will you and I. It is not for us to condemn others, but to witness to them of Him who is in our lives. Even now, the enemy is at work, but Jesus will prevail. I know a God whose mercy knows no limits and whose power has no restraints.
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Liberty consists in wholesome restraint.
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Mercy to living beings, self restraint, truth, honesty, chastity and contentment, right faith and knowledge, and austerity are but the entourage of morality.
Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.
Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.
Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the restraints of conscience.
The work under our labour grows Luxurious by restraint.
