Abnegation Quotes
49 quotes by 26 authors
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Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: "Not my will, but thine, be…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
— Christopher Hitchens
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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed…
— Victor Hugo
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In place of practising wholesome self-abnegation, we ever make the wish the father to the thought: we receive as friendly that which agrees with, we…
— Michael Faraday
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The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things. The blessed ones who possess…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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And I don't see that popular measures, self-abnegation and democracy have done anything for Man but push him further into the mud. Currently, popularity endorses…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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Tolerance can be exercised only by those who have well-grounded convictions (although it will not always be exercised even by them). For such people tolerance…
— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
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A French observer is surprised to hear how often an English or an American lawyer quotes the opinions of others, and how little he alludes…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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This gospel we have received is one of sacrifice, service and self-abnegation from beginning to end. That is what constitutes the straight and narrow way…
— George F. Richards
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The outer ring of Christianity is a rigid guard of ethical abnegations and professional priests; but inside that inhuman guard you will find the old…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would…
— Andre Gide
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There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience…
— Herman Melville
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When we choose to have an abortion, we must do so understanding the full ramifications of what we are doing. Anything less feels to me…
— Ayelet Waldman
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As one might expect, authoritarianism will at times cause children and students to adopt rebellious positions, defiant of any limit, discipline, or authority. But it…
— Paulo Freire
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May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to…
— Ignatius Loyola
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Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the…
— Ignatius Loyola
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We could decide simply to remain absorbed in the mysterious, unformed, free-play of reality. This would be the choice of the mystic who seeks to…
— Stephen Batchelor
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...your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments; hence,…
— Marquis de Sade
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When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]?
— Jodi Picoult
Who Wrote These Abnegation Quotes
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