Fasting deals with the two great barriers to the Holy…

The appetites of the body were private battles.

— Elizabeth Strout

I knew then that the Christian Church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal nature will out!

— Anton Szandor LaVey

On Saturday night, I would see men lusting after half-naked girls dancing at the carnival, and on Sunday morning when I was playing organ…

— Anonymous

[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a…

— C. S. Lewis

I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that obstinate and…

— Augustus William Hare

False liberty is also a reason that people fabricate doctrines that say that you don't need to suffer. One such doctrine is the one…

— Johan Oscar Smith

Happiness is your True Nature. Within you is Unimaginable Beauty. Your True Self is Bright and Shining this Moment. Through the clear Realization of…

— Robert Adams

It is not action or effort that we must surrender; it is self-will, and this is terribly difficult. You must do your best constantly,…

— Eknath Easwaran

You can then further enhance the process of writing by forming the clear intention that your Higher Self will influence your writing.

— Anonymous

Brokenness is the shattering of my self-will - the absolute surrender of my will to the will of God. It is saying “Yes, Lord!”…

— Nancy Leigh DeMoss

We tend to think that refusing to exalt Christ is staying true to our self-will and personal freedom when really we are condemning ourselves.…

— Criss Jami

All women are brought up from the very earliest years in the belief that their ideal of character is the very opposite to that…

— John Stuart Mill

If we divested ourselves, once and for all, of all self-will, we would then be in a position of being sure of doing the…

— Vincent de Paul

When you are dealing with a serious compulsion or addictive pattern, then by definition self-will, self-discipline, and any other machinations of the conscious mind…

— Marianne Williamson

If you give your Self a chance, your Self will give you all the chances.

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi