The only aberration is denial of self.

The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment.

— Anonymous

The denial of "self" challenges only the notion of a static self independent of body and mind-not the ordinary sense of ourself as a…

— Stephen Batchelor

To be resigned means to find satisfaction in self-denial (Self-denial is the denial of one's lower self).

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

“The astonishing paradox of Christ's teaching and of Christian experience is this: if we lose ourselves in following Christ, we actually find ourselves. True…

— John R.W. Stott

“True Calvinism always leads to the appreciation of self-denial. When the doctrines of grace are warmly preached, denial of self is necessarily one of…

— Walter J. Chantry

There is no real joy that does not involve self-denial and self-discipline

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

Now, there is something else interesting here, is this thing called self-determinism and pan-determinism. We have found that there is something stands as a…

— L. Ron Hubbard

People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial.

— Julie Burchill

In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of…

— Albert Camus

The alternative of hypothetical universalism, according to which Christ's work is sufficient for all but efficient only for the elect, was alive and well…

— Oliver D. Crisp

To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree

— Charles Darwin

When I first began examining the global-warming scare, I found nothing more puzzling than the way officially approved scientists kept on being shown to…

— Christopher Booker

“I could see clearly that this growing belligerence was an aberration, coming not from intention, but from the Fear.”

— James Redfield

I'm very proud of being Italian-American, but people don't realize that the mafia is just this aberration. The real community is built on the…

— Chazz Palminteri

Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil…

— Soren Kierkegaard