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“Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.”

Self Denial Indulgence Propensity Self-denial Self Indulgence

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“Such self-denial 'may appear demanding,' but it will allow you, so to speak, to be and to breathe within the heart of the church.”

Heart May Self Speak Church Breathe Denial Self-denial

Author:Pope Francis

“Simpler manners, purer lives; more self-denial; more earnest sympathy with the classes that lie below us, nothing short of that can lay the foundations of the Christianity which is to be hereafter, deep and broad.”

Self Lying Christianity Class Foundation Lays Simplicity Manners Denial Broads Earnest Hereafter Self-denial

Book:Sermons Preached at Brighton

Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton

“So, let us, you and I, for the sake of our brother man, individually strive by example and influence to lift the standard of thought and conduct from the low level of selfishness and self-indulgence up to the lofty realms of aspirational thought and self-denial.”

“The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its works, as a ground of salvation. It is really a denial of self, and a grounding of its arms in the last citadel into which it can be driven, and is, in its principle, inclusive of every subsequent act of self-denial by which sin is forsaken or overcome.”

Self Lasts Christ Sin Principles Arms Overcoming Salvation Driven Denial Renunciation Self-denial Forsaken Grounding Citadels

Book:BACCALAUREATE SERMONS, AND OCCASIONAL DISCOURSES

Source: BACCALAUREATE SERMONS, AND OCCASIONAL DISCOURSES

“But what must be the character of that policy, which aims at national prosperity through the impoverishment of a large proportion of the home producers, with a view to supply foreigners at a cheaper rate, and give them all the benifet of the national privation and self denial?”

Giving Self Character Home Views Policy Aim Rate Prosperity Producers Denial Proportion Foreigners Cheaper Self-denial

Book:A Treatise on Political Economy: Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth

Source: A Treatise on Political Economy: Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth

“You are born supernaturally through faith, by the grace of God, into the kingdom of righteousness; but you are born a little babe, that is all; and if you make any progress from that point on, it must be by work, by sacrifice, by the practice of Christian virtues, by benevolence, by self-denial, by resisting the adversary, by making valiant war for God and against sin; and on no other basis, am I authorized in giving you a hope that you may come to manhood in Christ Jesus.”

“What is it that is done to our children that their puberty should deform them? They have the joy of movement; they have an enterprising curiosity; they are ready for sensible self-denial; they dream ahead, and they have a faithful memory, and, above all, great compassion... The well-meaning educator who flatters and humours the young not only does a disservice to the community, but also damages the individual by depriving him of the opportunities of self-discovery.”

“A thorough: miser must possess considerable strength of character to bear the self-denial imposed by his penuriousness. Equal sacrifices, endured voluntarily in a better cause, would make a saint or a martyr.”

Self Character Causes Sacrifice Bears Equal Saint Denial Martyr Thorough Strength Of Character Misers Self-denial

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

“The evidence of our acceptance in the Beloved rises in proportion to our love, to our repentance, to our humility, to our faith, to our self-denial, to our delight in duty. Other evidence than this the Bible knows not God has not given.”

Knows Self Given Acceptance Humility Duty Evidence Delight Denial Beloved Proportion Repentance Our Love Self-denial

Book:Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character

Source: Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character

“All ancient books which have once been called sacred by man, will have their lasting place in the history of mankind, and those who possess the courage, the perseverance, and the self-denial of the true miner, and of the true scholar, will find even in the darkest and dustiest shafts what they are seeking for,-real nuggets of thought, and precious jewels of faith and hope.”

Men Book Real Self Mankind Sacred Perseverance Ancient Seeking Denial Persistence Lasting Scholar Jewels Hope And Faith Miners Self-denial Nuggets Precious Jewels

Author:Max Muller

“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 true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of the self breed pride and arrogance. The true believer is apt to see himself as one of the chosen, the salt of the earth, a prince disguised in meekness, who is destined to inherit this earth and the kingdom of heaven, too. He who is not of his faith is evil; he who will not listen shall perish.”

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“There is no real joy that does not involve self-denial and self-discipline”

Doe Real Self Joy Discipline Denial Self Discipline Self-denial Real Joy

Author:Joseph B. Wirthlin

“Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless defiance into tremulous submission; it turns thoughtlessness into foresight, and yet stills all anxiety into calm content; it makes selfishness become self-denial, and gives even to hard vanity the glance of admiring love.”

Source: Scenes of Clerical Life

“Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we sacrifice one kind of self-love to another.”

Kind Self Principles Sacrifice Self Love Spring Instance Denial Heroism Splendid Altars Self-denial Magnanimity

Book:L.P.

Source: L.P.

“Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.”

Needs Self Nature Denial Sovereign Self-denial Austerity

Book:Short Studies on Great Subjects

Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects

“Alas! this time is never the time for self-denial, it is always the next time. Abstinence is so much more pleasant to contemplate upon the other side of indulgence.”

Self Next Sides Denial Pleasant Contemplating Next Time Alas Indulgence Abstinence Self-denial

Book:Sir Gibbie

Source: Sir Gibbie

“Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.”

Men Giving Soul Self Perfect Forever Delight Surrender Impulse Overwhelming Lives Of Others Self-denial

Book:Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons

Source: Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons

“The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.”

Men Has Beens Whole Courses Growing Self-denial

Book:Sermons: The purpose and use of comfort, and other sermons

Source: Sermons: The purpose and use of comfort, and other sermons

“When malice has reason on its side, it looks forth bravely, and displays that reason in all its luster. When austerity and self-denial have not realized true happiness, and the soul returns to the dictates of nature, the reaction is fearfully extravagant.”

Looks Soul Self Reason Sides Return Reactions Denial Display Malice True Happiness Extravagant Self-denial Austerity Luster

Book:Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

Source: Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

“Our large trading cities bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic establishments in which the roar of the mill-wheel and the crane takes the place of other devotional music, and in which the worship of Mammon and Moloch is conducted with a tender reverence and an exact propriety; the merchant rising to his Mammon matins, with the self-denial of an anchorite, and expiating the frivolities into which he maybe beguiled in the course of the day by late attendance at Mammon vespers.”

Source: The Political Economy of Art: Being the Substance (with Additions) of Two Lectures Delivered at Manchester, July 10th and 13th, 1857

“Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.”

Self Political Economy Bases Denial Preservation Self Preservation Self-denial Political Economy

Author:Lord Acton

“Integrity is the first step to true greatness.”

Firsts Steps Greatness Integrity First Steps Liable Homage Self-denial High Places True Greatness

Book:Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker

Source: Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker

“Self-denial is a monkish virtue.”

Self Virtue Denial Self-denial

Author:David Hume

“Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step, even though it be by painful effort, by self-denial and sacrifice, ascend the whole length of the ladder of progress.”

Self Whole Remember Effort Steps Progress Sacrifice Higher Ambition Standards Mark Painful Denial Length Ladders Self-denial Higher Standards

Book:Christ's Object Lessons - Illustrated

Source: Christ's Object Lessons - Illustrated

“It is certainly much easier wholly to decline a passion than to keep it within just bounds and measures; and that which few can moderate almost anybody may prevent.”

May Passion Easier Bounds Decline Moderates Self-denial

Author:Pierre Charron

“There is nothing fruitful except sacrifice.”

Sacrifice Self-denial

Author:Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

“Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.”

Self Sacrifice Self Love Denial Self-denial

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“Money that may never be spent is nothing but a miser's toy. Saving as an exercise in self-denial is an invalid goal, a sick use of money.”

May Self Use Goal Money Exercise Sick Saving Denial Toys Misers Self-denial

Author:Catherine Crook de Camp

“Mr. and Mrs. Boffin sat staring at mid-air, and Mrs. Wilfer sat silently giving them to understand that every breath she drew required to be drawn with a self-denial rarely paralleled in history.”

Giving Self Funny Air Humorous Breaths Denial Staring Sat Self-denial

Book:Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

“No repentance, obedience, self-denial, prayers, tears, reformation or ordinances, without the new creation, avail any thing to the salvation of thy soul.”

Soul Self Prayer Creation Tears Salvation Denial Obedience Repentance Reformation Self-denial Ordinances

Book:The Method of Grace, in the Holy Spirits Applying to the Souls of Men the Eternal Redemption Contrived by the Father, and Accomplished by the Son (etc.)

Source: The Method of Grace, in the Holy Spirits Applying to the Souls of Men the Eternal Redemption Contrived by the Father, and Accomplished by the Son (etc.)

“Mental toughness is a state of mind - you could call it 'character in action.'”

Mind States Character Action Discipline State Of Mind Self Discipline Toughness Self-denial Mental Toughness

Book:What it Takes to be Number One

Source: What it Takes to be Number One

“A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.”

Self Pain Worship All Things Defeat Saint Treasure Denial Scholar Self-denial

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When our troubles are many we are often by grace made courageous in serving our God; we feel that we have nothing to live for in this world, and we are driven, by hope of the world to come, to exhibit zeal, self-denial, and industry.”

World Feels Made Self Grace Trouble This World Industry Driven Trials Denial Courageous Serving Zeal Exhibits Self-denial

Book:Feathers for Arrows: Or Illustrations for Preachers and Teachers, from My Note Book

Source: Feathers for Arrows: Or Illustrations for Preachers and Teachers, from My Note Book

“Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.”

Self Law Responsibility Liberty Deeds Bread Denial Salt Backbone Self-denial Acknowledgment Daily Bread Heirlooms

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“... so large a portion of those who hold much capital, instead of using their various advantages for the greatest good of those around them, employ the chief of them for mere selfish indulgences; thus inflicting as much mischief on themselves, as results to others from their culpable neglect. A great portion of the rich seem to be acting on the principle, that the more God bestows on them, the less are they under obligation to practise any self-denial, in fulfilling his benevolent plan of raising our race to intelligence and holiness.”

“Self-denial is the best riches.”

Self Riches Denial Self-denial

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.”

Self Alive Mankind India Denial Restraint Self-denial Purification Boon Self Restraint

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Love is the fruit of prayer ... Patiently abiding in prayer signifies a man's renunciation of himself. Therefore the self-denial of the soul turns into love for God.”

Men Inspirational Soul Self Christian Turns Religious Prayer Love Is Fruit Denial God Love Orthodox Abiding Renunciation Self-denial

Author:Isaac of Nineveh

“How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.”

Men Self Anger Angry Rage Denial Inner Self Self-denial Angry Man

Book:DUNE

Source: DUNE

“Society at present suffers far more from waste of money than from want of it. There is dignity in every attempt to economise. It indicates self-denial and imparts strength of character. It produces a well-regulated mind.”

Want Mind Wells Self Character Suffering Economy Produce Waste Dignity Denial Impart Strength Of Character Self-denial

Author:Morarji Desai

“A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation; sober counsels and ingenuous actions; open deportment and sweet carriage; sincere principles and unprejudiced understanding; love of God and self-denial; peace and confidence; hol”

Mind Self Body Action Mother Understanding Principles Sweet Pure Denial God Love Sincere Sober Sweet Love Carriages Chaste Self-denial Deliberation Understanding Love

Author:Jeremy Taylor

“Carrying the cross does mean following in Jesus' footsteps. And in His footsteps are rejection, brokenheartedness, persecution and death. There are not two Christs - an easy going one for easy going Christians, and a suffering one for exceptional believers. There is only one Christ. Are we willing to follow His lead?”

Mean Doe Two Christian Suffering Jesus Easy Christ Willing Crosses Following Believer Denial Rejection Persecution Exceptional Footsteps Self-denial Easy Going

Author:Hudson Taylor

“Without the renewed mind, we will distort the Scriptures to avoid their radical commands for self-denial, and love, and purity, and supreme satisfaction in Christ alone.”

Mind Self Christ And Love Satisfaction Scripture Supreme Command Radical Denial Purity Self-denial Christ Alone

Author:John Piper

“If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians.”

Ifs World Self Christian Life Is Spirit Courses Religious Poverty Our Lives Humility Affection Denial Heavenly Renunciation Self-denial World Poverty

Book:A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ; The Spirit of Love

Source: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ; The Spirit of Love

“There has to be some self-denial.”

Self Denial Self-denial

Author:Joe Paterno

“The Christian religion and morality extols the glory of the Hereafter, and therefore remains indifferent to the horrors of the earth. Indeed, the idea of self-denial and of all that makes for pain and sorrow is its test of human worth, its passport to the entry into heaven.”

Source: Victims of Morality, and The Failure of Christianity: Two Lectures

“The Fathers of the Church can well afford to preach the gospel of Christ. It contains nothing dangerous to the regime of authority and wealth; it stands for self-denial and self-abnegation, for penance and regret, and is absolutely inert in the face of every [in]dignity, every outrage imposed upon mankind.”

Wells Self Faces Father Christ Church Wealth Mankind Dangerous Regret Authority Dignity Denial Regimes Outrage Self-denial Penance Abnegation

Book:Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

“No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected by means of individual action, economy and self-denial; by better habits, rather than by greater rights.”

Mean Self Action Law Individual Economy Greater Rights Habit Reform Denial Idle Sober Industrious Self-denial

Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Charakter, Conduct and Perseverance

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Charakter, Conduct and Perseverance

“The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others.”

Self Seems Denial Harsh True Believer Self-denial

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer