“ Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you. Rob Liano
“ 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… Anthon St. Maarten
“ 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… Criss Jami
“ 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
“ Self-denial in the pursuit of purpose generates true pleasure while self-indulgence in the pursuit of pleasure generates true misery. Orrin Woodward
“ 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
“ 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,… James Fenimore Cooper
“ 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… Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
“ 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… K.P. Yohannan
“ 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, o… K.P. Yohannan
“ 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 gra… Charles Haddon Spurgeon
“ Writing creatively is a process of self-consumption that requires one to dive deeply inside of oneself with no guarantee of reemergence. Ashim Shanker