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
“At one time you take pleasure in a sort of perverse self-denial, and at another you have not resolution to resist a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Christianity is more than just a belief; it is a life of discipline, a firm determination to live a life of prayer… — Ramon M. Torres Copy Share Image
In the Catholic tradition, the idea of giving something up on a Friday - the act of self denial - has always… — Vincent Nichols 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
Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we… — Theodore C. Sorensen 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
“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
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
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
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
The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do… — Witness Lee 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
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. — Anonymous 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
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
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
Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can… — Og Mandino 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“Self-denial means knowing only Christ, and no longer oneself. It means seeing only Christ, who goes ahead of us, and no longer… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer 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
“Self-denial is an unfamiliar concept for many of us today, and we worry that it requires losing our individuality. But all self-denial… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
“in touch with the erotic, I become less willing to accept the powerlessness, or those other supplied states of being which are… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Lent is a fitting time for self-denial; we would do well to ask ourselves what we can give up in order to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Courage, Lucy Snowe! With self-denial and economy now, and steady exertion by-and-by, an object in life need not fail you. Venture not… — Charlotte Brontë 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
