Mortification Quotes - Page 2

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

John Owen

Done, Way, Spirit

John Owen, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Overcoming Temptation and Sin”, Lulu.com

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

John Owen

Effort, Compromise, Sin

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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

Jesus, Attachment, Wish

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Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. 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.

Neil Gaiman

Children, Parenting, Age

Neil Gaiman (2009). “Anansi Boys”, p.7, Harper Collins

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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

Roots, Sin, Hours

John Owen (2001). “Temptation and Sin”, p.12, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone.

John Owen

May, Sin

John Owen (1851). “The Works ...”, p.11

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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

Civilization, Umpires, Degrees

Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.127, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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

John Owen

Self, Soul, Sin

John Owen, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Overcoming Temptation and Sin”, Lulu.com

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

John Owen

Spiritual, Comfort, Deeds

John Owen, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Overcoming Temptation and Sin”, Lulu.com

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

John Owen

Spiritual, Deeds, Flesh

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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

Giving, Television, Penance

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When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet, and its waters are for the most part deep when they are still, so ought our contrivances against it to be vigorous at all times and in all conditions, even where there is least suspicion.

John Owen

Water, May, Quiet

John Owen (2001). “Temptation and Sin”, p.11, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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

David Hume

Art, Nature, Equal

David Hume (1875). “Essays Moral, Political, and Literary”, p.197

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

Jane Austen

Forgiveness, Pride, Mrs Bennet

Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.16

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Whoever the kid had been, whoever had had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the law: )You just change your attitude now please, young man.

William Saroyan

Teacher, Attitude, Kids

William Saroyan (1968). “I used to believe I had forever, now I'm not so sure”

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To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only Him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us. Once more, all that self-denial can say is, 'He leads the way, keep close to Him.'

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Self, Denial, Asceticism

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.43, SCM Press

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He can make the dry parched ground of my soul to become a pool and my thirsty barren heart as springs of water. Yes he can make this habitation of dragons this heart which is so full of abominable lusts and fiery temptations to be a place of bounty and fruitfulness unto Himself

John Owen

Spring, Heart, Dragons

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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

W. Somerset Maugham

Courage, Failure, Inspiration

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

Jonathan Edwards

Desire, Ease, Pleasure

Jonathan Edwards “The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Volume I - I”, Lulu.com

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It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals.

Alphonsus Rodriguez

Teaching, Mean, Eye

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In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let us alone: those monsters created by the heart, those illusions produced by the mind, those vain specters that are our errors and our lies always appear before us to seduce us; they attack us even in our fasting or our mortifications, in other words, in our very strength.

Baron de Montesquieu

Lying, Passion, Heart

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Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and spiritual disciplines are necessary for the cultivation of holiness, the pattern of piety in the Scripture is more explicitly about our character. We put off sin and put on righteousness. We put to death the deeds of the flesh and put on Christ. To use the older language, we pursue mortification of the old man and the vivification of the new.

Kevin DeYoung

Christian, Spiritual, Character

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

Alphonsus Liguori

Retirement, Prayer, Mean

Saint Alphonsus de Liguori, Aeterna Press (2016). “The True Spouse of Jesus Christ”, p.24, Aeterna Press

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

Sir Fulke Greville

Giving, Mind, Despair

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Mrs. Boffin, insisting that Bella should make tomorrow's expedition in the chariot, she went home in great grandeur. Mrs. Wilfer and Miss Lavinia had speculated much on the probabilities and improbabilities of her coming in this gorgeous state, and, on beholding the chariot from the window at which they were secreted to look out for it, agreed that it must be detained at the door as long as possible, for the mortification and confusion of the neighbours.

Charles Dickens

Funny, Humorous, Home

Charles Dickens (2006). “Our Mutual Friend: Easyread Edition”, p.26, ReadHowYouWant.com

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