Mortification Quotes

45 quotes by 29 authors

We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We… — Rose Macaulay
The mortification of indwelling sin remaining in our mortal bodies, that it may not have life and power to bring forth the works or deeds… — John Owen
Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie at the bottom… — John Owen
The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh. — John Owen
Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident. — John Owen
All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless; it must be done by the Spirit. — John Owen
Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of all false religion… — John Owen
Now nothing can prevent this but mortification; that withers the root and strikes at the head of sin every hour, so that whatever it aims… — John Owen
The good Lord send out a spirit of mortification to cure our distempers, or we are in a sad condition! — John Owen
The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh...The choicest believers, who are assuredly… — John Owen
Providence has ordained that I should be the greatest liberator of humanity. I am freeing man from the restraints of an intelligence that has taken… — Adolf Hitler
If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
But then back on lithium and rotating on the planet at the same pace as everyone else, you find your credit is decimated, your mortification… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Compare the emotional vocabulary available to a leader (confidence, satisfaction, indignation) with the emotions not permitted (regret, embarrassment, dread, angst, mortification, anger, surprise, wonder, doubt),… — John MacLachlan Gray
It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual… — Bruce McCall
It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the "race is for the strong" and that I shall probably do… — Charles Darwin
In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let us alone: those… — Baron de Montesquieu
A man may be carried on in a constant course of mortification all his days; and yet perhaps never enjoy a good day of peace… — John Owen
Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and spiritual disciplines are… — Kevin DeYoung
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a… — Raoul Vaneigem

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