Quotes about Mortification
He had begun too late to subject himself to the persistent mortification of spirit and flesh which is a condition of the average business life...
- Edith Wharton
The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.
- Richard Baxter
Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit.
- John Calvin
A man may be carried on in a constant course of mortification all his days; and yet perhaps never enjoy a good day of peace and consolation.
- John Owen
Sanctification has a double aspect. Its positive side is vivification, the growing and maturing of the new man; its negative side is mortification, the weakening and killing of the old man.
- JI Packer
If I am seeking everything that can delight my senses, and regale my appetites; spending my time and fortune in pleasures, in diversions, and worldly enjoyments; a stranger to watchings, fastings, prayers, and mortification; how can it be said that I am working out my salvation with fear and trembling?
- William Law