#mortify

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. ↗

— John Owen

#cease #daily #daily work #day #killing

The moment the door closed behind him, Tessa was in Will's arms, her hands locked about his neck. "Oh, by the Angel," she said. "That was mortifying." Will slid his hands into her hair and was kissing her, kissing her eyelids and her cheeks and then her mouth, quickly but with fervor and concentration, as if nothing could be more important. "Listen to you," he said. "You said 'by the angel.' Like a Shadowhunter." He kissed the side of her mouth. "I love you. God, I love you. I waited so long to say it. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#love #mortifying #p- #love

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#consider #done #man #might #mortifying

I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections. ↗

— William Congreve

#could #freely #i #long #look

Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves. ↗

— John Flavel

#brethren #declaim #easier #mortify #others

I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had. ↗

— Billy Bob Thornton

#ever #experience #had #i #life

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#feel #missed #more #mortifying #plum

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#conquer #curiosity #mortify #one thing #thing

Oh, I constantly say things that I regret. I mortify myself constantly. But that's just part of the deal. I'm not really sure what's going to come out of my mouth. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#constantly #deal #going #i #just

If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after. ↗

— Moon Unit Zappa

#after #anything #being #being famous #more