Quotes About Self-denial

There is but one way of being delivered from this life of self. We must follow Christ, set our hearts upon Him, listen to His teachings, give ourselves up every day, that He may be all to us, and by the power of Christ the denial of self will be a blessed, unceasing reality.

We ought not to please ourselves. For even Christ pleased not Himself. Self-denial is the law of his life.

While feeling love for others is surely one of the greatest source of happiness, it entails a very deep concern for the happiness and suffering of those we love. Our own search for happiness, therefore, provides a rationale for self-sacrifice and self-denial.

Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it

All who have not been influenced by the principle of self-denial, have followed virtue merely from the love of praise.

There is no end and no limit to the obstacles of the man who wants to pursue what is right and at the same time shrinks back from self-denial.

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.

As I assimilate only that, as the qualification of knowledge, not beyond that, exemplifying: Indeed, self-denial, defines a grave ignorant, as the learned ones mostly mention that: The only true wisdom is in knowing, you know nothing. - As a fact, everyone realizes knowledge as its level; however, the true wisdom implies it as; it never ends since it stays beyond study, and one needs to learn continuously without denying oneself is wisdom.

Self-denial mostly executes a tricky way, for self-presentation, as an authentic personality.

Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

The feelings of devotion, self-sacrifice for one's neighbor, the whole morality of self-denial must be questioned mercilessly and taken to court.... There is too much charm and sugar in these feelings of 'for others,' 'not for myself,' for us not to need to become doubly suspicious at this point and to ask: 'are these not perhaps-seductions?

The day that man forgets that love is identical with sacrifice, he will ask how a God of love could demand mortification and self-denial.

The communion rail is a place of exchange. They give time and receive eternity, they give self-denial and receive love, they give nothingness, and receive all.

What we prayed for was emptiness, so we would be worthy to be filled: with grace, with love, with self-denial, semen and babies.

When you die, God and the Angels will hold you accountable for all the pleasures you were allowed in life that you denied yourself.

In the first Spider-Man, at the end of the movie, Peter Parker had to deny himself a relationship with a girl that he's in love with. The very next thing that happens is that he's swinging through the city.

To be a religious man in the second century was to be a man of power, not of self-denial and a democratic spirit. (Hence, in part, the eventually perceived threat of the cult of Christ – and to others, of course, its attraction.)

Self-denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.

Every time we deny ourselves in order to serve someone else, we grow in Christ.

It's funny, for a long time I would go watermelon-red and deny that I was a magical realist. It felt imprecise to me, a misrepresentation.

The first time I ask him, have you had your cheekbones raised, have you had your nose changed? He denied it all. I was asking him to compare his face with what it looked like years ago.

Although she would sooner have given up thinking than eating, she resented being pushed into depriving herself of either.

Teach self denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.