Mortification Quotes

Mortification Quote of the day

He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.

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.

Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.

Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships.

The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise in mortification.

The good Lord send out a spirit of mortification to cure our distempers, or we are in a sad condition!

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.

If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.

The perfection of a Christian consists in mortifying his will for the love of Christ. Where there is no great mortification, there is no great sanctity.

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.

Where there is no great mortification there is no great sanctity.

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.

Sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet.

Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.

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.

The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all their days to mortify the indwelling power of sin.

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.

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.

All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless; it must be done by the Spirit.

Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.

When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone.

He who finds not opposition from sin, and who sets not himself in every particular to its mortification, is at peace with it, not dying to it.

Without mortification nothing can be done.

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.

Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.

Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification.

Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident.

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

... 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.

Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin.

[A person’s] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.

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.

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."

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.

Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.

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.

It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.

The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement.

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.

a sense of the love of Christ in the cross