Self Denial Quotes

“Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.”
― Sarah Dessen

“Never surrender your hopes and dreams to the fateful limitations others have placed on their own lives. The vision of your true destiny does not reside within the blinkered outlook of the naysayers and the doom prophets. Judge not by their words, but accept advice based on the evidence of actual results. Do not be surprised should you find a complete absence of anything mystical or miraculous in the manifested reality of those who are so eager to advise you. Friends and family who suffer the lack of abundance, joy, love, fulfillment and prosperity in their own lives really have no business imposing their self-limiting beliefs on your reality experience.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.”
― Rob Liano

“You can't get rid of a part that makes you you and be happy.”
― Ingrid Law, Savvy

“Conformity begins the moment you ignore how you feel for acceptance.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“It was so quiet, I could hear my own breathing, loud in my ears. Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand, then pulling back to sea. I thought of everything being washed away, again and again. We make such messes in this life, both accidentally and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything any neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are.”
― Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye

“I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism -- self-denial.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 29: The Illustrated London News, 1911-1913

“ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Man in his spiritual pride has exchanged God’s method of self-denial for Satan’s plan of self–improvement.”
― Daniel W. Blair

“What will you do with your self? Many men and women are still in darkness, trying to figure out the meaning and purpose of life. But no matter what you try to do with your self— whether you deny it, obliterate it, annihilate it, accept it or express it—believe me, it is still alive and kicking.”
― K.P. Yohannan, Living in the light of eternity

“Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done." Benjamin Franklin”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, The March Of Folly: From Troy To Vietnam

“You’re not likely to err by practicing too much of the cross.”
― Alexander Whyte, Bunyan characters in the Pilgrim's progress

“Don’t ”be yourself”, but work on yourself. Don’t ”be who you are”, but be who you ought. Don’t ”follow your dreams”, but face your realities. And don’t ”live your life”, but live a respectable life. Then you will find out that you cannot do everything, but at least you have to do something.”
― Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

“There is no choice for us; we must either deny self or deny Christ. Deliverance from self-life means to be a vessel overflowing with love to everybody all day.”
― ANDREW MURRAY

“The woman you’re becoming will cost you your authenticity ‘filter’ which has been the biggest reason for your self denial, self neglect, and self betrayal.”
― Lebo Grand

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
- Albert Einstein

Self-denial mostly executes a tricky way, for self-presentation, as an authentic personality.
- Ehsan Sehgal”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
- Albert Einstein

Self-denial mostly executes a tricky way, for self-presentation, as an authentic personality.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“The most radical form of self-denial is to give up not cigarettes or whiskey but one's own body, an act which is traditionally known as martyrdom. The martyr yields up his or her most precious possession, but would prefer not to; the suicide, by contrast, is glad to be rid of a life that has become an unbearable burden. If Jesus wanted to die, the he was just another suicide, and his death was as worthless and futile as a suicide bomber's messy finale. Martyrs, as opposed to suicides, are those who place their deaths as the service of others. Even their dying is an act of love. Their deaths are such that they can bear fruit in the lives of others. This is true not only of those who die so that others may live (taking someone's place in the queue for the Nazi gas chambers, for example), but also of those who die in the defense of a principle which is potentially life-giving for others. The word "martyr" means "witness"; and what he or she beas witness to is a principle without which it may not be worth living in the first place. In this sense, the martyr's death testifies to the value of life, not to its unimportance.”
― Terry Eagleton, Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate

“إنكارك ذاتك ثتبيت لها”
― Mikhail Naimy, كرم على درب

“The most radical form of self-denial is to give up not cigarettes or whiskey but one's own body, an act which is traditionally known as martyrdom. The martyr yields up his or her most precious possession, but would prefer not to; the suicide, by contrast, is glad to be rid of a life that has become an unbearable burden. If Jesus wanted to die, then he was just another suicide, and his death was as worthless and futile as a suicide bomber's messy finale. Martyrs, as opposed to suicides, are those who place their deaths at the service of others. Even their dying is an act of love. Their deaths are such that they can bear fruit in the lives of others. This is true not only of those who die so that others may live (taking someone's place in the queue for the Nazi gas chambers, for example), but also of those who die in the defense of a principle which is potentially life-giving for others. The word "martyr" means "witness"; and what he or she bears witness to is a principle without which it may not be worth living in the first place. In this sense, the martyr's death testifies to the value of life, not to its unimportance.”
― Terry Eagleton, Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate

“Since self cannot be converted, it must be crucified. In no other way can one experience deliverance from the tyranny of self.”
― Merle Ruth, Dying to Live With Christ

“The cancer patient doesn't treasure his tumor, simply because it's a part of himself; so why should I treasure the organs that are killing my immortal soul? Christ isn't ordering you to pluck out your eyes: he's saying that he knows, that if you knew what he knew you would know that it would be better for you, in the long run. That you would want to if you knew.”
― Phillip Andrew Bennett Low, Monsters in a Mirror: Strange Tales from the Chapel Perilous

“All my desire was the conversion of the heathen and all my hope was in God. God does not suffer me to please or comfort myself with hopes of seeing friends, returning to my dear acquaintance, and enjoying worldly comforts.”
― David Brainerd, The Life and Diary of David Brainerd

“Self denial is not ‘once in a lifetime act’; it is a daily deliberate decision. Our intention should never be to do anything by ourselves or for ourselves, but rather to do everything by Him and for Him. We should practice denying ourselves and doing things of the Lord and with the Lord every day. Through daily self-denial and crucifying the flesh, our life in Christ grows, strengthens, and attains maturity.”
― Prasanth Jonathan

“Christian maturity can only be achieved by exercising self-denial and doing God’s will consistently moment by moment, day by day and year by year.”
― Prasanth Jonathan

“We see the best demonstration of love in the history on the cross at the Calvary. Jesus demonstrated agape love by dying on the cross for us. He didn’t feel like dying that painful death, but he chose to die in love.”
― Prasanth Jonathan

“Even in trying to become an expert athlete, daily training involving a great deal of self-denial and asceticism is absolutely needed.”
― Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, The Training Of The Zen Buddhist Monk

“Forget yourself, and you may just find what you were made to be and do.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Denying ourselves to do for others what they cannot do for themselves is showing the sacrificial love of Christ.”
― Henry Cloud, Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life