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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
If you were not full of self-pity you would soon observe that we ourselves are to blame for all this evil, because… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of nature in man, as Nicetas Stethatos further explains: the carnal man, who wants to live for his… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
“Asceticism is an antidote to the poison of self-centeredness common in our culture, which teaches us that satisfying our own desires is… — Rob Dreher Copy Share Image
Now, because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite… — Guido von List Copy Share Image
“It was a cold morning, and he shivered a little; but he had been taught by his uncle that his prayers were… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“It seems absurd for a man of twenty-eight to renounce the pleasures of life, doing violence to his nature by a pure… — Reiner Stach Copy Share Image
We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was… — W. Somerset Maugham 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
When you reach your sixties, you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
The simplicity that all this presupposes is not easy to attain. I find that my life constantly threatens to become complex and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
This obstinate will to personal happiness is the cause of unrest and division in your soul. Give it up and work against… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
The irony is that in our decades, the combination of rationalism, asceticism, and individualism (the so-called Protestant Ethic) has produced precisely the… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is precisely our egoism, our self-centeredness and self-love that cause all our difficulties, our lack of freedom in suffering, our disappointments… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a… — Katherine Anne Porter 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
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
“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
We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
PRACTICE OF THE Art of Peace is an act of faith, a belief in the ultimate power of nonviolence. It is faith… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
“In Nietzsche's usage, the word 'Christianity' does not even refer primarily to the religion; using it like a code word, he is… — Peter Sloterdijk 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
“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
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
