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
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships. — Federico Fellini 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
[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
Oh, how I like those little mortifications that are seen by nobody, such as rising a quarter of an hour sooner, rising… — John Vianney Copy Share Image
Now nothing can prevent this but mortification; that withers the root and strikes at the head of sin every hour, so that… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“the intellect is of no use unless it's disciplined by the mortification of the flesh, so that it may serve the soul.” — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
The good Lord send out a spirit of mortification to cure our distempers, or we are in a sad condition! — John Owen 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
“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
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
My brave fellows, let no sensation of satisfaction for the triumphs you have gained induce you to insult your fallen enemy. Let… — George Washington 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
Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of… — John Owen 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
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
Compare the emotional vocabulary available to a leader (confidence, satisfaction, indignation) with the emotions not permitted (regret, embarrassment, dread, angst, mortification, anger,… — John MacLachlan Gray Copy Share Image
Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Providence has ordained that I should be the greatest liberator of humanity. I am freeing man from the restraints of an intelligence… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh...The choicest believers,… — John Owen Copy Share Image
In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let… — Anonymous 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
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
Whoever the kid had been, whoever had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the… — William Saroyan 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
“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
He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
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