Quotes and Sayings About Asceticism
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Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.
-- Jeremy Bentham -
American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.
-- Joseph McCarthy -
When you reach your sixties, you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you're sixty, some degree of asceticism is inevitable.
-- Malcolm Muggeridge -
Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to "break in" the emotions, making them teachable because they are tamed.
-- Os Guinness -
I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part of that asceticism.
-- Paul Rand -
The cacophony of contemporary popular culture makes it hard to discern the call of truth and wisdom. There is no area in which practicing asceticism is more important.
-- Rod Dreher -
Asceticism in most cases is either the result of a sordid imagination or of passion diverted from its natural course, and experience has shown that when the protection of public morals is entrusted to its votaries, the consequences are usually appalling.
-- Rudolf Rocker -
It begins here, and has no end, and no earthly power can coerce it; and it is to be found in the human heart.
-- Tito Colliander -
We notice the person who is for ever bowing and fussily servile, and perhaps say, How humble he is! But the truly humble person escapes notice: the world does not know him.
-- Tito Colliander -
However weighed down and entangled in earthly fetters you may be, it can never be too late.
-- Tito Colliander -
Say nothing of the new life you have begun or of the experiment you are making and experiences you expect to have. All this is a matter between God and you, and only between you two.
-- Tito Colliander -
Through practice he has accustomed himself to wish for nothing, and for a person with no wishes, everything goes just as he wishes, explains the Abbot Dorotheus. His will has coincided with God's will, and whatever he asks, he will receive.
-- Tito Colliander -
The saints' deep secret is this: do not seek freedom, and freedom will be given you.
-- Tito Colliander -
Faith comes not through pondering but through action.
-- Tito Colliander -
Cast off the burden of sin and you will find within you the upward path that will make your ascent possible.
-- Tito Colliander -
A truly unselfish act is not mine, but God's. It cannot be obstructed. Only for my own plans, my own wishes to study, to work, to rest, eat, or do a service to my fellowman- can some external circumstance "get in the way," and then I am grieved.
-- Tito Colliander -
Nothing happens accidentally or in such a way that you cannot learn from it; you must understand this at once, for this is how your trust grows in the Lord whom you have chosen to follow.
-- Tito Colliander -
Thus you are led from moment to moment in your halter of preoccupation with self, and kindled instantly to displeasure, impatience or anger if an obstacle intervenes.
-- Tito Colliander -
Give up a member to save a family, a family to save a village, a village to save a country, and the country to save yourself.
-- Vyasa
