Quotes Tagged With :asceticism

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

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

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

[N]othing is more easily corrupted than an artist.

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

Wasn't that what Jesus said: do what I do? He was here as an example for us to follow. Same with all....

Stupidity and MadnessThe Tao is clear, yet this clarity requires you to sweep away all your clutter.....

Giving up alcohol is an asceticism for the modern do-gooder, drinking being, like sex, a pleasure that....

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

It was a dictum of his that the soul's energy thrives when the body's desires are feeblest.