Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.
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 an...
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 s...
Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.
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.
…he strove to leave his life in the hands of God, and to forget himself.
Conformity begins the moment you ignore how you feel for acceptance.
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,...
Self-denial in the pursuit of purpose generates true pleasure while self-indulgence in the pursuit of pleasure generates true misery.
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.
We never know how strongly we cling to objects until they are taken away, and he who thinks htat he is attached to nothing, is frequently grandly mistaken, being bound to a thousand things, unknown to...
There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism -- self-denial.