Self-denial Quotes
88 Self-denial quotes by 70 unique authors
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Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should…
— Richard Baxter
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Naturally, men are prone to spin themselves a web of opinions out of their own brain, and to have a religion that may be called…
— Richard Baxter
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I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.
— Richard Baxter
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The first lesson in Christ's school is self-denial.
— Matthew Henry
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Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along, while we live, it hath faithful company that adheres to…
— John Owen
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By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and…
— Jackie Mason
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I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am…
— David Brainerd
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Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.
— Louisa May Alcott
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Self-denial is taught much better by inspiring the love of our neighbor, than by the prohibition of innocent comforts and pleasures. Spirituality is much better…
— Harriet Martineau
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Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.
— Theodore Parker
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The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
— John Sterling
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Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.
— Susie Orbach
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Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit,…
— Kurt Hahn
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Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At the same time…
— Alexis Carrel
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Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist!
— Charles Studd
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It is a mournful fact that most men, and indeed all men of worldly character, have so much regard to public opinion that they dare…
— Charles Grandison Finney
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We love the old saints, missionaries, martyrs, and reformers. Our Luthers, Bunyans, Wesleys and Asburys, etc... We will write their biographies, reverence their memories, frame…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Singleness, simplicity, is required of me. One treasure, a single eye, and a sole Master!
— Jim Elliot
Who Wrote These Self-denial Quotes
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