Quotes about Temperance
Do not seek solace in alcohol. Alcohol obscures good judgment and leaves you unable to think clearly or understand what God is trying to say to you.
- Billy Graham
Drinking and other forms of body-wrecking pleasures are signs of weakness rather than manliness. It takes a better man to live a clean life—free from the stimulants, depressants, and drugs—than to be artificially [stimulated].
- Billy Graham
After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.
- Billy Sunday
To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
- St. Augustine
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
- St. Augustine
Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.
- St. Augustine
For if we were beasts, we should love the fleshly and sensual life, and this would be our sufficient good; and when it was well with us in respect of it, we should seek nothing beyond.
- St. Augustine
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
- St. Jerome
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
- Victor Hugo
The strong man is not one who is good at wrestling, but the strong man is one who controls himself in a fit of rage.
- Anonymous
The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
- Pope John Paul II
Never succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter. As you press for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the instruments of love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.