“...Death is often as cruel in his asceticism as he is in his greed.” — Elisabeth Wheatley Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Give up a member to save a family, a family to save a village, a village to save a country, and the… — Vyasa Copy Share Image
I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you. — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
“Asceticism is giving up selfish activities, as poets know, and the wise declare renunciation is giving up fruits of action. — Krishna.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Renounce all things, and thou shalt find all things; give up thy lust, and thou shalt find rest. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
“A Christian who practices asceticism trains himself to say no to his desires and yes to God.” — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
The saints' deep secret is this: do not seek freedom, and freedom will be given you. — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful… — Paul Evdokimov Copy Share Image
The cacophony of contemporary popular culture makes it hard to discern the call of truth and wisdom. There is no area in… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only Him who goes before… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
You must learn to follow privately the Lord's bidding: not to speak empty words, not to adorn yourself, always to obey authority,… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
“To rediscover Christian asceticism is urgent for believers who want to train their hearts, and the hearts of their children, to resist… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
A truly unselfish act is not mine, but God's. It cannot be obstructed. Only for my own plans, my own wishes to… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
“There is always a danger that in our asceticism we shall be tempted to imitate the sufferings of Christ. This is a… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Weakness for wealth and for collecting and owning things of different kinds; the urge for physical (sensuous) enjoyment; the longing for honour,… — Tito Colliander 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
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
As soon as you direct such a question outward to your fellow man and not inward to yourself, you have set yourself… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
“Whoever approaches these Olympians with another religion in his heart, searching among them for moral elevation, even for sanctity, for disincarnate spirituality,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction… In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Here we should quote especially those sections from Nietzsche's central morality-critical work The Genealogy of Morals that deal with their subject in… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“Also, asceticism is all right when it is the proper means of attaining some special end. It is when it produces eructations… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“In the wake of his new division of ascetic opinion, Nietzsche not only stumbles upon the fundamental meaning of the practising life… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“If asceticism is to he something different today than this pre-modern denial of autonomy and self-determination, it must he conceived of differently… — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
“The extension of the moral-historical perspective makes the meaning of the thesis of the athletic and somatic renaissance apparent. At the transition… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“Other centuries sought safety in the union of reason and religion, research and asceticism. In their Universitas Litterarum, theology ruled. Among us… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“In the monotheistic age, God was viewed as the one who causes and does everything, and hence humans were not entitled to… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“The stakes in this game are not low. Our enterprise is no less than the introduction of an alternative language, and with… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
