ASCETICISM

Related Subjects: Fasting, Hermit, Sacrifice, Self-Denial

1. An angry and cruel asceticism begins to befog the world.. It is no mere accident that Adolf Hitler neither drinks nor spins. .. . Show me a community or a country where all the minor vices are discouraged and I will show you one bereft of major virtues.—HEYWOOD BROUN, Saratoga Fades

2. Intend to live in continual mortification and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.—JONATHAN EDWARDS, Diary
   

3. The belief that all higher life is governed by the idea of renunciation poisons our moral life by engendering vanity and egotism.—REBECCA WEST, I Believe