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Temperance: Quotations from Burning Words

"Take therefore the talent from him." It is being taken away rapidly, and the shreds of it will very soon be all that is left. Your religious nature will finally become a virtually exterminated organ. The purpose you have at some future time to use your talent avails nothing. It is going from you, and, before you know it, will be utterly, irrevocably gone. My friends, there is not an hour to lose. Only with the greatest difficulty will you be able, now, to gather up yourself and open your closing gates to the entrance of God and His salvation.— HORACE BUSHNELL

Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul, and the foundation of virtue.— JEREMY TAYLOR

The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and courage in adversity.— SENECA

Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor— JOHN NEAL

his wife a widow.