Denied Quote by John Calvin

The more a man denies himself, the more shall he obtain from God.

— Horace

“Denying God is merely denying yourself — a refusal to rise to the spiritual or supra-consciousness realm.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails that the…

— Eric Hoffer

“For if God Himself became man, this man, what else can this mean but that He declared himself guilty of the contradiction against Himself”

— Karl Barth

God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.

— Herodotus

He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If you hate yourself and your desires, well, you know, God is your desires and God is your self. As long as you hate…

— Frederick Lenz

Sometimes God's refusals are His mercies.

— Elisabeth Elliot

God has committed himself, ever since creation, to working through his creatures--in particular, through his image-bearing human beings--but they have all let Him down.

— Anonymous

“Why should a Christian be called upon always to deny himself, his own feeling, and will, and pleasure? Why must he part with his…

— Andrew Murray

He who does not hate the false does not love the true; and he to whom it is all the same whether it be…

— Charles Spurgeon

O Woe to his blinded soul! Saying this, he as it were said to God: "Thou Thyself are guilty, because the woman whom Thou…

— Symeon the New Theologian