Besetting Quotes

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness with others. - Samuel Butler

But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God. - Joseph Barber Lightfoot

All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up. - Seneca