Quotes Tagged With :ascetic

This kind of renunciation, in fact, has often been the strength, born of necessity, of the world's disinherited,....

Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.....

Does biblical psychology, then, merely ask us to value good things a little less? Does the Bible seek....

It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to....

Mental discipline, prayer and remoteness from the world and its disturbing visions reduce temptation....

The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful....

1. Accept everything just the way it is.2. Do not seek pleasure for its own sake.3. Do not, under any....

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking....

Darkness can inspire light, and light can inspire darkness, its just a difference of distant of these....