Abstaining Quote by Ibn Ata Allah

“It is a hard thing to break through a habit and a yet harder thing to go contrary to our own will. Yet if…

— Thomas à Kempis

“Rest shows us who God is. He has restraint. Restraint is refraining from doing everything that one has the power to do. We must…

— Matthew Sleeth

“It is easy, out of laziness, out of weakness, to throw oneself into the lap of deity, saying, 'I couldn't help it; the way…

— John Steinbeck

“God has provided you with many avenues for obtaining wisdom and averting failure. Resist your inclination to accept advice with easy solutions and to…

— Jim George

“I understand that if you focus on what is wrong in your life, that is all you will see." Marian put her hands on…

— Sarah Holman

“In AA we don’t come to God through theology but through experience, mostly of the humbling and humiliating variety, often reluctantly, and sometimes even…

— Ray A

“For no temptation (no trial regarded as enticing to sin), [no matter how it comes or where it leads] has overtaken you and laid…

— Joyce Meyer

“God proportions his people's trials to their strength, and will not suffer them to be tempted above what they are able, 1 Cor. 10:13.”

— Matthew Henry

“Every temptation proves a crossroad where we must choose between the high road and the low road. On some occasions it is a trial…

— Tad R. Callister

The more we see that any action springs not from the motive of obedience, the more evident is it that it is a temptation…

— Teresa of Avila

“God will not allow us to be overwhelmed by temptation, but with it He will provide a way of escape so that we will…

— Rebecca Wells

“Whenever the conviction of God’s Spirit comes there is the softening of the whole nature to obey; but if the obedience is not instant…

— Oswald Chambers