I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion. — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial. — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
To be resigned means to find satisfaction in self-denial (Self-denial is the denial of one's lower self). — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
One of the ideals [Margaret Thatcher] grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
Such self-denial 'may appear demanding,' but it will allow you, so to speak, to be and to breathe within the heart of… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Mr. and Mrs. Boffin sat staring at mid-air, and Mrs. Wilfer sat silently giving them to understand that every breath she drew… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The only way to go beyond work is through work. It is not that work itself is valuable; we surmount work by… — Kōbō Abe Copy Share Image
By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith,… — Jackie Mason Copy Share Image
Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
The willpower to hold onto the impossible stems from self denial embellished in your mind from the start of time replacing the… — Jasmina Siderovski Copy Share Image
Do not the angels differs from us in this respect, that they do not want so many things as we do? Therefore… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
The Fathers of the Church can well afford to preach the gospel of Christ. It contains nothing dangerous to the regime of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
If you wish to see the blessings which "God has prepared for those who love Him" (I COR 2:9), then take up… — Niketas Stethatos Copy Share Image
Naturally, men are prone to spin themselves a web of opinions out of their own brain, and to have a religion that… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Society at present suffers far more from waste of money than from want of it. There is dignity in every attempt to… — Morarji Desai Copy Share Image
Work on your stony qualities and become resplendent like the ruby. Practice self-denial and accept difficulty. Always see infinite life in letting… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Love and self-denial for the object loved go hand-in-hand. If I profess to love a certain person, and yet will neither give… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
You are born supernaturally through faith, by the grace of God, into the kingdom of righteousness; but you are born a little… — Charles Henry Fowler Copy Share Image
“We can “forget” about ourselves because Christ never forgets us. We can afford to be less important to ourselves because we are… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
“I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If any man would come after me, let him deny himself." The disciple must say to himself the same words Peter said… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
What is it that is done to our children that their puberty should deform them? They have the joy of movement; they… — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I suppose it's something to do with her black-brained religion not to take care of the body.” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier. — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
No repentance, obedience, self-denial, prayers, tears, reformation or ordinances, without the new creation, avail any thing to the salvation of thy soul. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
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