Mortification Quotes
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Mortification Quotes & Sayings
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Mortification was becoming my default emotion.
— Cora Carmack
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
Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships.
— Federico Fellini
There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears.
— Teresa Of Avila
The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.
— Richard Baxter
A sense of the love of Christ in the cross; lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification
— 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
All attempts, then, for mortification of any lust, without an interest in Christ, are vain.
— John Owen
Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident.
— John Owen
Internal and external purification, contentment, mortification, study, and worship of God are the Niyamas.
— Swami Vivekananda
Hugo could cheerfully have died of mortification - if such a mass of contradictions had been possible.
— Mary Balogh
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[A person's] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.
— David Hume
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
The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement.
— Alphonsus Liguori
The good Lord send out a spirit of mortification to cure our distempers, or we are in a sad condition!
— John Owen
All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.
— John Owen
It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.
— Roger L'Estrange
Without mortification nothing can be done.
— Philip Neri
When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone.
— John Owen
Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
— Jonathan Edwards
The life, vigour, and comfort of our spiritual life depend much on our mortification of sin.
— John Owen
How many spanks have you had, Julia?" Damien asked."Two, Sir."
"What colour are you on?"
"Mortification," she mumbled. — Sierra Cartwright
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
