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

~ Criss Jami

Criss Jami Certainty Contradiction Development Discipline Freedom Hypocrisy Justification Learning Productivity Progress Proof Right Self Denial Truth Uncertainty

Man in his spiritual pride has exchanged God’s method of self-denial for Satan’s plan of self–improvement.

~ Daniel W. Blair

Daniel W. Blair God Satan Self Denial Self Improvement

There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism -- self-denial.

~ G.k. Chesterton

G.k. Chesterton Imitation Individuality Self Denial Wisdom

Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.

~ Rob Liano

Rob Liano Adversity Advice Be Positive Begging Betrayed Better Than This Breakups Broken Change Your Life Chasing Compete Competition Competitive Women Confidence Crying Dates Dating Daydreaming Decieved Deja Vu Delusional Denial Big Time Depression Desperate Dignity Doormat Exboyfriend False Hope Find Your Balance Fool Foolish Get Moving Get Over It Get Up Giving Up Hanging On Heartbreak Hurting Ignorant In Love Inner Peace Insecurity Jealous Women Know Worth Lack Of Confidence Lack Of Respect Let Go Lies Love Low Self Esteem Marriage Married Women Men Mercy Moving On Nostalgic Pathetic Pity Pride Relationships Reputation See Your Value Seeing Self Abuse Self Degradation Self Denial Self Empowerment Self Loathing Self Love Self Respect Self Worth Settling Single Woman Single Women Sorrow Staying Positive Stayingpositveu Com Strength Support Trial True Strength Undermining Value Warrior Woman Warrior Women Woman Women

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

Anthon St. Maarten Abundance Creation Advice Advise Advise Yourself Bad Luck Cynics Destiny Doom Prophets Dreams Faith In Yourself False Beliefs Family Relationships Fate Friendships Fulfilling Purpose Fulfilling Your Potential Fulfillment Fulfilment Happiness Choice Happiness Fulfillment Desire Happiness Positive Outlook Hopes Imagination Intention Intentional Living Joyful Living Lack Consciousness Law Of Attraction Limitations Love Manifest Your Bliss Manifestation Manifesting Miracles Miraculous Mystical Naysayers Prosperity Prosperity Consciousness Reality Creation Reality Dreams Reality Expectation Reality Tunnel Scarcity Mentality Self Belief Self Denial Self Growth Self Improvement Self Limitation Self Limiting Beliefs Self Motivation Vision

The sacrifices we make to stay healthy, to look good, the tasty foods we skip, the guilt trips, the exercising - all these things require great discipline, care, and even a paradoxical, self-denying self-love of sorts in order to be properly executed. However it is regretful that so many of us today are not as passionate about our spiritual holiness as we are about our physical health. They are indeed both important - we should worship in every aspect of our lives - and one even, in a sense, entails the other. Although, this disproportion in said priorities is still very much expected: we humans have always taken a liking to trendiness and the temporal side of things, doing what is judged vainly in the eyes of man before that which is judged vitally and eternally in the eyes of God (i.e. cleaning the outside of one's cup while leaving a filthy inside). But in a way, it all goes to show that the man who fully hates discipline hates himself fully; for within the spirit is where The Holy One judges true wellness or malady.

~ Criss Jami

Criss Jami Ailment Apologetics Body Care Death Dedication Diet Discipline Disease Disobedience Eating Eternal Exercise Food Fullness God Guilt Health Holiness Malady Nutrition Obedience Paradox Physical Sacrifice Self Denial Self Help Self Love Sickness Spiritual Temporary Transformation Trendiness Vanity Wellness Worship

Writing creatively is a process of self-consumption that requires one to dive deeply inside of oneself with no guarantee of reemergence.

~ Ashim Shanker

Ashim Shanker Creativity Dedication And Attitude Detachment Dive Into Oneself Meditation Self Consumption Self Denial Writing Process Creative Process

Christianity is more than just a belief; it is a life of discipline, a firm determination to live a life of prayer and contemplation, a life of self-denial and Christlikeness.

~ Ramon M. Torres

Ramon M. Torres Belief Christ Christian Christianity Contemplation Discipline Prayer Self Denial

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.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Charles Haddon Spurgeon Prayer Self Denial

You shall find it greatly mitigates the sorrow of bereavements, if before bereavement you shall have learned to surrender every day all the things which are dearest to you into the keeping of your gracious God.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Charles Haddon Spurgeon Bereavement Faith Self Denial Surrender Trust

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

K.p. Yohannan Self Self Denial

Conformity begins the moment you ignore how you feel for acceptance.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Shannon L. Alder Acceptance Acceptance Of Oneself Anxiety Apathy Choices Collective Order Conformity Denial False Security Fear Insecurity Laziness Locus Of Control Self Belief Self Denial Self Esteem Settling Wrong Choices

The Lord bestows his blessings there, where he finds the vessels empty.

~ Thomas À Kempis

Thomas À Kempis Blessings Grace Self Denial

It takes self-discipline and persistence action to achieve the goal.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Lailah Gifty Akita Achieve Ambition Determined Person Discipline Dreams Dreams And Reality Encourage Yourself Failures Goal Motivation Perseverance Persistence Positive Thoughts Pursue Your Passion Self Denial Self Determination Self Help Success

In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Deity, and with erecting temples in his honor, where all can bow down with reverence, the pride and vanity of human reason enter into and pollute our worship, and the houses that should be of God and for God, alone, where he is to be honored with submissive faith, are too often merely schools of metaphysical and useless distinctions. The nation is sectarian, rather than Christian.Religion's first lesson is humility; its fruit, charity. In the great and sublime ends of Providence, little things are lost, and least of all is he imbued with a right spirit who believes that insignificant observances, subtleties of doctrine, and minor distinctions, enter into the great essentials of the Christian character. The wisest thing for him who is disposed to cavil at the immaterial habits of his neighbor, to split straws on doctrine, to fancy trifles of importance, and to place the man before principles, would be to distrust himself.

~ James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper America Christianity Religion Sectarianism Self Denial

ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.

~ Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott Patience Ridicule Self Denial

According to Aquinas, effort may not be the best measure of our virtue.

~ Jen Pollock Michel

Jen Pollock Michel Discipleship Legalism Religion Self Denial

A wilderness experience includes a long walk back.

~ Dennis Garvin

Dennis Garvin Discipleship Self Denial Trials

God's word tells us that righteousness is a gift; it cannot be earned. But godliness is not a gift. We must pay a price to touch godliness through a daily decision to die to self and embrace the cross. God calls us to learn godliness in the classroom of life among people as we sit on airplanes and buses, walk among our neighbors and labor at our factories or desks.

~ K.p. Yohannan

K.p. Yohannan Discipleship Godliness Self Denial

Self-denial in the pursuit of purpose generates true pleasure while self-indulgence in the pursuit of pleasure generates true misery.

~ Orrin Woodward

Orrin Woodward Happiness Misery Pleasure Self Denial Self Indulgence

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

Sarah Dessen Self Denial Self Discovery

I suppose it's something to do with her black-brained religion not to take care of the body.

~ Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh Aesthetism Blessings Martyrdom Self Denial