348 Quotes About Self-control

If you can’t control your sexuality, you will have a hard time maintaining your sensuality.

Only by fully experiencing fear, can you ever hope to control it.

Joy, I think, is the main fruit of the Spirit missing among Christians, and peace and self-control are the main fruits or qualities that seem to be missing among those who are not Christian.

We need to not let food master us and take the throne of our lives. We need to make food submit to us, rather than us submitting to food. No one can serve two masters. We cannot serve money and God, and we cannot serve food and God.

Absolute freedom comes when we make the choice to wake up and master our individual minds, bodies, hearts, and spirits. When we have this true freedom, we no longer act upon our impulsive thoughts or emotions. We gain the capability of controlling them within ourselves, which unlocks our greatest potential to create, transmute, and transcend the Mundane reality.

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

The church is often called a killjoy for protesting against sexual license. But the real killing of joy comes with the grabbing of pleasure. As with credit card usage. the price tag is hidden at the start, but the physical and emotional debt incurred will take a long time to pay off.

Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me.

It was a little thing, but on top of the other little things, it broke something in me.