7 Quotes Tagged: self-denial

There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism — self-denial.

Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.

ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.

You shall find it greatly mitigates the sorrow of bereavements, if before bereavement you shall have learned to surrender every day all the things which are dearest to you into the keeping of your gracious God.

Noble disappointment, noble self-denial are not to be admired, not even to be pardoned, if they bring bitterness. It is one thing to enter the kingdom of heaven maim; another to maim yourself and stay without.

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.

I suppose it's something to do with her black-brained religion not to take care of the body.