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
Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“I suppose it's something to do with her black-brained religion not to take care of the body.” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial...C hristianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
People who are crucified with Christ have three distinct marks: 1. they are facing only one direction, 2. they can never turn… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought,… — Thornton T. Munger Copy Share Image
Alas! this time is never the time for self-denial, it is always the next time. Abstinence is so much more pleasant to… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
This quality of self-denial in pursuit of a longer-term goal and, indeed, the willpower to maintain the denial, is excellent training for… — John Viney Copy Share Image
Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is certainly much easier wholly to decline a passion than to keep it within just bounds and measures; and that which… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind,… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“Man in his spiritual pride has exchanged God’s method of self-denial for Satan’s plan of self–improvement.” — Daniel W. Blair Copy Share Image
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
Without the renewed mind, we will distort the Scriptures to avoid their radical commands for self-denial, and love, and purity, and supreme… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“most of us can only deny short-term pleasures because we see a realistic path between self-denial now and something better down the… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist! — Charles Studd Copy Share Image
“You shall find it greatly mitigates the sorrow of bereavements, if before bereavement you shall have learned to surrender every day all… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self- denial… — John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn Copy Share Image
Mental toughness is Spartanism, with all its qualities of self-denial, sacrifice, dedication, fearlessness, and love. — Vince Lombardi 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
Character is the direct result of mental attitude. I believe that character is higher than the intellect. I believe that leadership is… — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
We love the old saints, missionaries, martyrs, and reformers. Our Luthers, Bunyans, Wesleys and Asburys, etc... We will write their biographies, reverence… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Whoever reads the gospel with a single eye, and sincere intentions, will find, that our blessed Lord took all opportunities of reminding… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I find afflictions to be good for me. I have always found them so. Afflictions are happy means in the hands of… — Joseph Williams 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
Carrying the cross does mean following in Jesus' footsteps. And in His footsteps are rejection, brokenheartedness, persecution and death. There are not… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation; sober counsels and ingenuous actions; open deportment and… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
When our troubles are many we are often by grace made courageous in serving our God; we feel that we have nothing… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“For all that exists in man, whether good or evil, is rendered conspicuous by the presence of great danger. His inmost feelings… — Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker Copy Share Image
I think - I think you have a conscience growing up in a loving family with a nurturing community. And I think… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
