QUOTATION: Abstinence

One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting every one else to give it up. That is not the Christian way.

--C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

QUOTAION: Continence

I thought that continence was a matter of our own strength, and I knew that I had not the strength: for in my utter foolishness I did not know the word of Your Scripture that none can be continent unless You give it.

--St. Augustine, Confessions, 6:11