Bread-and-wine-for-lent Quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Self-denial is an unfamiliar concept for many of us today, and we worry that it requires losing our individuality. But all self-denial means is…

— Richard J. Foster

To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only Him who goes before and no…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God; and, by making you his partner, interests you in all his happiness.

— Robert Boyle

Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

— Oscar Wilde

“The astonishing paradox of Christ's teaching and of Christian experience is this: if we lose ourselves in following Christ, we actually find ourselves. True…

— John R.W. Stott

The first lesson in Christ's school is self-denial.

— Matthew Henry

Self-denial is a monkish virtue.

— David Hume

Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.

— Ambrose Bierce

There has to be some self-denial.

— Joe Paterno

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

— Theodore Parker