Asceticism Quote by Tito Colliander Download Open image “The saints' deep secret is this: do not seek freedom, and freedom will be given you.” — Tito Colliander ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Asceticism Freedom Given Saint Secret
I'm no saint, but there are times when I simply cannot sanction freedom from responsibility. — Jim Steranko Copy Share Image
Freedom was my first great desire. The second, which remains hidden within me to this day, tormenting me, was the desire for sanctity. Hero… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“Freedom is not something you have to earn. It is not something that is only available to a few. Freedom has been sealed and… — Ashley Evans Copy Share Image
O What A Freedom Is Thine! Freedom from Condemnation. Freedom to the Promises, Freedom to the Throne of Grace, and at last Freedom to… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Real, pure, unadulterated freedom happens when the resources of the gospel smash any sense of need to secure for myself anything beyond what Christ… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
To secure one's freedom the Christian must experience God's light which is God's truth. — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
“True freedom in Christ comes when you realize you have nothing to prove to anyone, because in Christ, God fully approves of you.” — Steven Furtick Copy Share Image
Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
It is for us to begin. If we take one step towards the Lord, he takes ten towards us -- he who saw the… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of nature in man, as Nicetas Stethatos further explains: the carnal man, who wants to live for his own pleasure,… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
You must learn to follow privately the Lord's bidding: not to speak empty words, not to adorn yourself, always to obey authority, not to… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
He has made peace with himself, as Isaac the Syrian says, and heaven and earth have made peace with him. He is gathering the… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
Say nothing of the new life you have begun or of the experiment you are making and experiences you expect to have. All this… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
It begins here, and has no end, and no earthly power can coerce it; and it is to be found in the human heart. — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
We notice the person who is for ever bowing and fussily servile, and perhaps say, How humble he is! But the truly humble person… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
Thus you are led from moment to moment in your halter of preoccupation with self, and kindled instantly to displeasure, impatience or anger if… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
Cast off the burden of sin and you will find within you the upward path that will make your ascent possible. — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
Through practice he has accustomed himself to wish for nothing, and for a person with no wishes, everything goes just as he wishes, explains… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
“In his treatise on the battles between the gods underlying ancient Dionysian theatre, the young Nietzsche notes: 'Alas! The magic of these struggles is… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is not asceticism;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When you reach your sixties, you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Genuine asceticism for finding one's own soul and for the good of humanity is worthy of reverence. — Rama Swami Copy Share Image
Many modern scholars have found the asceticism expressed in Plato unacceptable; it does not sound like the advice of a reasonable man in the… — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
The dunyâ distracts and preoccupies the heart and body, but al-zuhd (asceticism, not giving importance to worldly things) gives rest to the heart and… — Hasan of Basra Copy Share Image
