Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... To the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It is my greatest misfortune to be too lazy, and by the few mortifications I have already set with on that account… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
[A persons] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value. — David Hume Copy Share Image
The heroic minute.- It is the time fixed for getting up.- Without hesitation: a supernatural reflection and.-.-.- up! The heroic minute: here… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
The Buddha's message was simple but profound. Neither a life of self-indulgence nor one of self-mortification can bring happiness. Only a middle… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
“I felt my mouth go dry, my throat constrict. What possible interpretation could Peter place on those words, other than that they… — Jennifer Paynter Copy Share Image
It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the "race is for the strong" and that I… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We have very little, so we have nothing to be preoccupied with. The more you have, the more you are occupied, the… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
It is 11 years since I have seen my figure in a glass [mirror]. The last reflection I saw there was so… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
“a sense of the love of Christ in the cross; lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification” — John Owen Copy Share Image
It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification. — Alice Thomas Ellis Copy Share Image
Not to be daily mortifying sin, is to sin against the goodness, kindness, wisdom, grace, and love of God, who hath furnished… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Sin also carries on its war by entangling the affections and drawing them into an alliance against the mind. Grace may be… — John Owen Copy Share Image
If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Not to be daily employing the Spirit and new nature for the mortifying of sin is to neglect that excellent succor which… — John Owen Copy Share Image
All attempts, then, for mortification of any lust, without an interest in Christ, are vain. — John Owen Copy Share Image
The perfection of a Christian consists in mortifying his will for the love of Christ. Where there is no great mortification, there… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
Could the best and kindest of us who depart from the earth have an opportunity of revisiting it, I suppose he or… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
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