Asceticism Quotes

26 quotes by 22 authors

The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of… — Jeremy Bentham
Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again did he preach… — Swami Vivekananda
Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities… — Agnes Repplier
We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything.… — Friedrich Nietzsche
But it certainly is a wonderful thing to wake up suddenly in the solitude of the woods and look up at the sky and see… — Thomas Merton
If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently… — Florence Nightingale
The simplicity that all this presupposes is not easy to attain. I find that my life constantly threatens to become complex and divisive. A life… — Thomas Merton
Asceticism in most cases is either the result of a sordid imagination or of passion diverted from its natural course, and experience has shown that… — Rudolf Rocker
The cacophony of contemporary popular culture makes it hard to discern the call of truth and wisdom. There is no area in which practicing asceticism… — Rod Dreher
Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism… — Katherine Anne Porter
The strongest argument for the unmaterialistic character of American life is . . . that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of… — Mary McCarthy
PRACTICE OF THE Art of Peace is an act of faith, a belief in the ultimate power of nonviolence. It is faith in the power… — Morihei Ueshiba
For when asceticism was carried out of monastic cells into everyday life, and began to dominate worldly morality, it did its part in building the… — Max Weber
We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to plant good seeds.… — Fulton J. Sheen
I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part of that asceticism. — Paul Rand
A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the… — Aldous Huxley
The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to… — Os Guinness

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