Love is the fruit of prayer ... Patiently abiding in prayer signifies a man's renunciation of himself. Therefore the self-denial of the… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
“But some of it (evangelistic persuasion) is going to come through service. The deficit that many Christians face is that people look… — Skip Vaccarello Copy Share Image
“But a girl starting out in life might well say to herself: 'Is this it? You worked hard and denied yourself things… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that. — John Sterling 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
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
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
There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
“He had meant them to be good, but his cares had been directed to the understanding and manners, not the disposition; and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Self-denial is the birth pang of spiritual joy. No woman seeks birth pangs, but she willingly endures them for the pleasure of… — Walter J. Chantry Copy Share Image
“Marriage and family life give us constant opportunities to deny ourselves for the sake of others. And yet self-denial is not a… — Scott Hahn Copy Share Image
Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step,… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of… — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
It is a mournful fact that most men, and indeed all men of worldly character, have so much regard to public opinion… — Charles Grandison Finney 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
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
“Never surrender your hopes and dreams to the fateful limitations others have placed on their own lives. The vision of your true… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial. — Walter Scott 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
Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist! — Charles Studd 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
Mental toughness is Spartanism, with all its qualities of self-denial, sacrifice, dedication, fearlessness, and love. — Vince Lombardi 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
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
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
“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
I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and… — Anonymous 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
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
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. — Vince Lombardi 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
We like food but hate challenges; when challenges are what grows our character stature. You need plates of self-discipline and spoons of… — Michael Mbuko 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
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
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
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
Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God; and, by making you his partner, interests you in all his happiness. — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
