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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
I constantly say things that I regret. I mortify myself constantly. -- Kathy Griffin
Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves. -- John Flavel
In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible. -- Marina Abramovic
Oh, I constantly say things that I regret. I mortify myself constantly. But that's just part of the deal. I'm not really sure what's going to come out of my mouth. -- Kathy Griffin
Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you. -- John Owen
Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child. -- Peter Gallagher
There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit. -- Alexander Pope
He who does not mortify his palate will neither know how to mortify his flesh. -- Paul of the Cross
I should mortify a dozen Sir Johns if it might aid my investigation." - Elizabeth Bennet -- Debbie Cowens
Julie always tried to stand beside me, or talk to me, or in some other way mortify me. -- Wendelin Van Draanen
A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit. -- John Owen
Some persons are so inclined to mortify themselves that at every opportunity they have, they do so. What a beautiful practice this is, and how profitable! -- Alphonsus Rodriguez
Nothing ought in reason to mortify our self-satisfaction more that the considering that we condemn at one time what we highly approve and commend at another. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all their days to mortify the indwelling power of sin. -- John Owen
American Women: How they mortify the flesh in order to make it appetizing! Their beauty is a vast industry, their enduring allure a discipline which nuns or athletes might find excessive. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you. -- John Owen
It being our duty to mortify... we must be at work. He that is appointed to kill an enemy, if he leave striking before the other ceases living, does but half his work. -- John Owen
For to pretend that men may live habitually sinful lives without any attempt by the Spirit to mortify sin in them, nor with any desire for repentance, is to deny the Christian religion. -- John Owen

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