The evidence of our acceptance in the Beloved rises in proportion to our love, to our repentance, to our humility, to our… — Gardiner Spring 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
A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
“Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
You are born supernaturally through faith, by the grace of God, into the kingdom of righteousness; but you are born a little… — Charles Henry Fowler Copy Share Image
The chief evil with relation to the body is love for the body and pitying it. This takes away all the soul's… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share Image
“No thing worth while is obtained in this life without sacrificing, without putting forth effort. The evil one thrusts things upon us… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
We've become embarrassed about asking ourselves the straightforward, simple questions that are actually the most relevent: what is it to be human?… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
So, let us, you and I, for the sake of our brother man, individually strive by example and influence to lift the… — Ossian Everett Mills Copy Share Image
But what must be the character of that policy, which aims at national prosperity through the impoverishment of a large proportion of… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along while we live, it hath faithful company… — John Owen Copy Share Image
What is it that is done to our children that their puberty should deform them? They have the joy of movement; they… — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Conformity begins the moment you ignore how you feel for acceptance.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Singleness, simplicity, is required of me. One treasure, a single eye, and a sole Master! — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
Healthy eating isn't supposed to be about self-denial; it's not a punishment. — Ella Woodward Copy Share Image
Mental toughness is a state of mind - you could call it 'character in action.' — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do… — William Law Copy Share Image
Simpler manners, purer lives; more self-denial; more earnest sympathy with the classes that lie below us, nothing short of that can lay… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
