Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.
Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.
Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.
There is perhaps one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive. Even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.
To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice you feel in yourself
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
We forgive, we mortify our resentment a week later some chain of thought carries us back to the original offence and we discover the old resentment blazing away as if nothing had been done about it at all. We need to forgive our brother seventy times seven not only for 490 offences but for one offence.
Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.
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