{"id":8801,"date":"2016-08-16T23:53:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/self-control\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T23:53:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:53:11","slug":"self-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/self-control\/","title":{"rendered":"SELF-CONTROL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b><i>See also: Temperance<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>But since we belong to the day, let us be self-controlled \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>The Bible, 1 Thessalonians 5:8<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>\u2026 be self-controlled \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>The Bible, 1 Peter 1:13<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Winston Churchill<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Self-control is the mother of spiritual health.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>John Climacus<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Control your appetites before they control you.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>John Climacus<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>No man is free who is not a master of himself.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Epictetus<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>If you are to be self-controlled in your speech you must be self-controlled in your thinking.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>F. F\u00e9nelon<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Hugo Grotius<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>It\u2019s not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Edmund Hillary<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Joubert<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>He who reigns within himself, and rules passions, desires, and fears, is more than a king.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>John Milton<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Peter the Great<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>There has never been, and cannot be, a good life, without self-control.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Leo Tolstoy<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Anything which increases the authority of the body over the mind is an evil thing.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Susannah Wesley, writing to her student son John<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Virginia Woolfe<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See also: Temperance But since we belong to the day, let us be self-controlled \u2026 The Bible, 1 Thessalonians 5:8 \u2026 be self-controlled \u2026 The Bible, 1 Peter 1:13 The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. Winston Churchill Self-control is the mother of spiritual health. 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