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Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident. -- John Owen
Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of all false religion in the world. -- John Owen
Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Without mortification nothing can be done. -- Philip Neri
Where there is no great mortification there is no great sanctity. -- Philip Neri
There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears. -- Teresa of Ávila
All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless; it must be done by the Spirit. -- John Owen
The good Lord send out a spirit of mortification to cure our distempers, or we are in a sad condition! -- John Owen
If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives. -- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh. -- John Owen
He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses. -- Alphonsus Liguori
A man may be carried on in a constant course of mortification all his days; and yet perhaps never enjoy a good day of peace and consolation. -- John Owen
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live. -- Raoul Vaneigem
Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification. -- John Owen
Now nothing can prevent this but mortification; that withers the root and strikes at the head of sin every hour, so that whatever it aims at it is crossed in. -- John Owen
Oh, how I like those little mortifications that are seen by nobody, such as rising a quarter of an hour sooner, rising for a little while in the night to pray! -- John Vianney
The mortification of indwelling sin remaining in our mortal bodies, that it may not have life and power to bring forth the works or deeds of the flesh is the constant duty of believers. -- John Owen
Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt. -- Oliver Goldsmith
It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the "race is for the strong" and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science. -- Charles Darwin
Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street. -- Neil Gaiman
The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy. -- Mother Teresa
Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification. -- Alice Thomas Ellis
Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body. -- Sir Fulke Greville
All attempts, then, for mortification of any lust, without an interest in Christ, are vain. -- John Owen
Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships. -- Federico Fellini
The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement. -- Alphonsus Liguori
Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure. -- Jonathan Edwards
There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears. -- Teresa of Ávila
All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit. -- John Owen
The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh. -- John Owen
The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise in mortification. -- Saint Francis de Sales
Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin. -- John Owen
The perfection of a Christian consists in mortifying his will for the love of Christ. Where there is no great mortification, there is no great sanctity. -- Philip Neri
It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification. -- Bruce McCall
There are two things that we should avoid, oh disciple! A life of pleasures, that is low and vain. A life of mortification, that is useless and vain. -- Gautama Buddha
... many a heart is caught in the rebound ... Pride may be soothed by the ready devotion of another; vanity may be excited the more keenly by recent mortification. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Another secret we carry is that though drab outside - wreckage to the eye, mirrors a mortification - inside we flame with a wild life that is almost incommunicable. -- Florida Scott-Maxwell
To my deep mortification my father once said to me, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family." -- Charles Darwin
Sanctification has a double aspect. Its positive side is vivification, the growing and maturing of the new man; its negative side is mortification, the weakening and killing of the old man. -- J. I. Packer
It is 11 years since I have seen my figure in a glass [mirror]. The last reflection I saw there was so disagreeable I resolved to spare myself such mortification in the future. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... To the exclusion of both these extremes, the Truth-Finder has discovered a middle course. -- Gautama Buddha

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