To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications. — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
A man may be carried on in a constant course of mortification all his days; and yet perhaps never enjoy a good… — John Owen Copy Share Image
The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh. — John Owen Copy Share Image
The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement. — Alphonsus Liguori 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
“In short, I was constantly receiving some fresh mortification, so that I hardly passed a day in quiet.” — Nancy Goldstone Copy Share Image
... many a heart is caught in the rebound ... Pride may be soothed by the ready devotion of another; vanity may… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism… — Bruce McCall Copy Share Image
“Self-mortification, far from producing liberation from material things, is far more likely to cause either an unhinged mind, delusions or a masochistic… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“The Holy Spirit is promised of God to be given to us, to do this work (of mortification). The taking away of… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him;… — John Calvin 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
It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of… — David Hume 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
Among the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Pleasure, in itself harmless, may become mischievous, by endearing to us a state which we know to be transient and probatory, and… — Samuel Johnson 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
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
“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
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give... You will find that people forget the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
We launch our souls from the cannons of art and discipline, and on any one night, hovering over the chimney tops of… — Mark Helprin 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
“But mortification - literally, "making death" - is what life is all about, a slow discovery of the mortality of all that… — Henri J.M. Nouwen 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
Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification. — Alice Thomas Ellis Copy Share Image
Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin. — 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
Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
