Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification. — Alice Thomas Ellis Copy Share Image
Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise in mortification. — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification,… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident. — 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
All attempts, then, for mortification of any lust, without an interest in Christ, are vain. — John Owen Copy Share Image
Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
Another secret we carry is that though drab outside - wreckage to the eye, mirrors a mortification - inside we flame with… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
... mortification is basic to the act of photographing. The person is mobile, ... then I freeze one moment in his movement,… — August Sander 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
If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who… — Charles Caleb Colton 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
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
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
“How can Sophie hate Josh tonight when Friday morning she loved him?' I ask. What I mean is How can I have… — Erin McCahan Copy Share Image
But then back on lithium and rotating on the planet at the same pace as everyone else, you find your credit is… — Kay Redfield Jamison 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
Have I mentioned that I expect death around every turn, that every blue sky has a safe sailing out of it, that… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
“A man may beat down the bitter fruit from an evil tree until he is weary; while the root abides in strength… — 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
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
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
It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is… — Alphonsus Rodriguez 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
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give. — W. Somerset Maugham 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
