Quotes about Self-control

Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.

True love isn't just expressed in passionately whispered words or an intimate kiss or an embrace; before two people are married, love is expressed in self-control, patience, even words left unsaid.

1. List your own top three lust triggers. How can you avoid them? 2. What time of day or week are you most tempted by lust? What can you do to prepare for those times? 3. Which locations are the most tempting for you? How can you limit your time in those places? 4. What five little battles do you need to be fighting more faithfully? Describe in detail what it looks like for you to fight—and win—these battles.

John Calvin wrote, "The evil in our desire typically does not lie in what we want, but in that we want it too much.

True love isn't expressed in passionately whispered words an intimate kiss or a embrace; before two people are married, love is expressed in self-control, patience, even words left unsaid.

Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.

Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.

Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.

In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.

Today, with the abundance of books available, it is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read. … Feed only on the best. As John Wesley's mother counseled him: 'Avoid whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, takes off your relish for spiritual things, … increases the authority of the body over the mind.

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

Be very sure that you do not deliberately place yourself in a position to be tempted.