Self Denial Quotes

Self Denial Quote of the day

The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment.

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.

This quality of self-denial in pursuit of a longer-term goal and, indeed, the willpower to maintain the denial, is excellent training for the boardroom.

Love is the fruit of prayer ... Patiently abiding in prayer signifies a man's renunciation of himself. Therefore the self-denial of the soul turns into love for God.

Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it.

Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.

There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets.

The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

The first lesson in Christ's school is self-denial.

If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore our country to greatness.

Without the renewed mind, we will distort the Scriptures to avoid their radical commands for self-denial, and love, and purity, and supreme satisfaction in Christ alone.

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

Self-denial is a monkish virtue.

There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.

Work not of enthusiasm but of love, conscious of duty-which means self-denial.

Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning.

Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.

Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.

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

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

No repentance, obedience, self-denial, prayers, tears, reformation or ordinances, without the new creation, avail any thing to the salvation of thy soul.

Mental toughness is Spartanism, with all its qualities of self-denial, sacrifice, dedication, fearlessness, and love.

Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.

Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.

There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears.

Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.

Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we sacrifice one kind of self-love to another.

Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.

Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

Money that may never be spent is nothing but a miser's toy. Saving as an exercise in self-denial is an invalid goal, a sick use of money.

Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should be proud ourselves!

The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others.

Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial...C hristianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it.

The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.

There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.

Self-denial is the best riches.

ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.

I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.

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.

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.

The only aberration is denial of self.

There is nothing fruitful except sacrifice.

Mr. and Mrs. Boffin sat staring at mid-air, and Mrs. Wilfer sat silently giving them to understand that every breath she drew required to be drawn with a self-denial rarely paralleled in history.