Top 73 Quotes About Mortification
#1. Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
Jonathan Edwards
#2. 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
#3. Life when one first arrives is a continual mortification as one's romantic illusions are successively shattered and the musical treasure-house of one's imagination crumbles before the hopelessness of the reality. Every day fresh experiences bring fresh disappointments.
Hector Berlioz
#4. 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
#5. Mortification. I'm draped in it. Painted in it. Buried in it.
Tahereh Mafi
#6. But if the words struck her only lightly when she was nine, they stayed with her, gaining in density, to insinuate themselves whenever her performance fell short of perfection. They were less a mortification, she feared, than an actual statement of fact: B+ is all you deserve.
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
#7. The heroic minute.- It is the time fixed for getting up.- Without hesitation: a supernatural reflection and.-.-.- up! The heroic minute: here you have a mortification that strengthens your will and does no harm to your body.
Josemaria Escriva
#8. The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement.
Alphonsus Liguori
#9. There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears.
Teresa Of Avila
#10. What was one more debit of mortification when my balance sheet was already in the red
Penny Reid
#11. If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.
George Bernard Shaw
#12. Without mortification nothing can be done.
Philip Neri
#13. Where there is no great mortification there is no great sanctity.
Philip Neri
#14. Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.
Alice Thomas Ellis
#15. 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
#16. Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.
Sir Fulke Greville
#17. My brave fellows, let no sensation of satisfaction for the triumphs you have gained induce you to insult your fallen enemy. Let no shouting, no clamorous huzzaing increase their mortification. It is sufficient for us that we witness their humiliation. Posterity will huzza for us.
George Washington
#18. Mortification is basic to the act of photographing. The person is mobile, ... then I freeze one moment in his movement, a mere five-hundredth of a second of that person's life-time. That's a very meager or small extract from a life.
August Sander
#20. Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident.
John Owen
#21. Mortification, party of one, your table is now ready.
Tara Sivec
#22. How can Sophie hate Josh tonight when Friday morning she loved him?' I ask. What I mean is How can I have had such strong feelings for Ethan when now I don't know what I feel aside from overwhelming mortification?
Erin McCahan
#23. The good Lord send out a spirit of mortification to cure our distempers, or we are in a sad condition!
John Owen
#24. Self-mortification, far from producing liberation from material things, is far more likely to cause either an unhinged mind, delusions or a masochistic taste for more suffering, experienced, of course, as joy.
Idries Shah
#25. To his dismay, it sounded as out of place in this somber laboratory as the book looked out of place, and he found himself rushing to keep ahead of his growing mortification, which only made it sound wilder and more foolish the faster he went. "You
Laini Taylor
#26. The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.
Richard Baxter
#27. Could the best and kindest of us who depart from the earth have an opportunity of revisiting it, I suppose he or she (assuming that any Vanity Fair feelings subsist in the sphere whither we are bound) would have a pang of mortification at finding how soon our survivors were consoled.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#28. 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
#29. The life, vigour, and comfort of our spiritual life depend much on our mortification of sin.
John Owen
#30. 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
#31. Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships.
Federico Fellini
#32. Explosive force of any mortification. Every vanquished desire affords us power. We have the more hold over this world the further we withdraw from it, the less we adhere to it. Renunciation confers an infinite power.
Emil M. Cioran
#33. Mortification was becoming my default emotion.
Cora Carmack
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. The Holy Spirit is promised of God to be given to us, to do this work (of mortification). The taking away of the stony heart, that is, the stubborn, proud, rebellious, unbelieving heart, is, in general, the work of mortification that we treat of.
John Owen
#37. The Buddha's message was simple but profound. Neither a life of self-indulgence nor one of self-mortification can bring happiness. Only a middle path, avoiding these two extremes, leads to peace of mind, wisdom, & complete liberation from the dissatisfactions of life.
Henepola Gunaratana
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. I will do nothing to superinduce sleep by putting myself at ease, or making myself more comfortable; if, however, in spite of my resistance I yield to my infirmity, then I deserve to be laughed at, and accept as punishment the mortification I feel."19
S.C. Gwynne
#41. A sense of the love of Christ in the cross; lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification
John Owen
#42. The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.
John Owen
#43. Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.
Mahatma Gandhi
#44. That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged.
Edgar Allan Poe
#45. Christ has come into the world to lay out a garden wherein, amid splendor and abundance, there should thrive the violet of humanity, the myrtle of mortification, the rose of love, the lily of virginal souls, the laurel of confessors and the palm of martyrs.
Fr James Groenings
#46. Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit.
John Calvin
#47. How many spanks have you had, Julia?" Damien asked.
"Two, Sir."
"What colour are you on?"
"Mortification," she mumbled.
Sierra Cartwright
#48. 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
#49. All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.
John Owen
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. Well-meant techniques such as arbitrary self-mortification, are useless.
Idries Shah
#53. 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
#54. All attempts, then, for mortification of any lust, without an interest in Christ, are vain.
John Owen
#55. Hugo could cheerfully have died of mortification - if such a mass of contradictions had been possible.
Mary Balogh
#56. Internal and external purification, contentment, mortification, study, and worship of God are the Niyamas.
Swami Vivekananda
#57. 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. Fat
Neil Gaiman
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. I say, then, that mortification is the work of believers, and believers only. To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead (as all unbelievers, the best of them, are dead), sin is alive, and will live. 2.
John Owen
#61. Of all my failures to offset the mortification of wanting, expecting, or caring too much, the most humiliating was having no real answer for the love of a good man. It humbled me.
Michelle Orange
#62. 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
#63. He who wholly renounces himself, and relies not on mere human reason, will make good progress in the Scriptures; but the world comprehends them not, from ignorance of that mortification which is the gift of God's word.
Martin Luther
#64. Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin.
John Owen
#65. That 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
#66. I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
Jane Austen
#67. Sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet.
John Owen
#68. When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone.
John Owen
#69. I felt my mouth go dry, my throat constrict. What possible interpretation could Peter place on those words, other than that they were about him? - that the entire song was about him?
Jennifer Paynter
#70. It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.
Roger L'Estrange
#71. [A person's] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.
David Hume
#72. My fear is that he'll forget me," she bemoaned with crystalline sadness. I took her hand, limp with loss and held it. "I'd rather not be remembered by any man as it saves me the embarrassment.
Donna Lynn Hope
#73. Set faith at work on Christ for the killing of thy sin. His blood is the great sovereign remedy for sin-sick souls. Live in this, and thou wilt die a conqueror; yea, thou wilt, through the good providence of God, live to see thy lust dead at thy feet.
John Owen
