Temperance Union

Famous quotes containing the words temperance and/or union:

“Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more truly and perfectly himself: for his personality and individuality are perfected in their true order, the spiritual, interior order, of union with God, the principle of all perfection.”
—Thomas Merton (1915–1968)