1.
... mortification is basic to the act of photographing. The person is mobile, ... then I freeze one moment in his movement, a mere five-hundredth of a second of that person's life-time. That's a very meager or small extract from a life.
August Sander
2.
Where there is no great mortification there is no great sanctity.
Philip Neri
3.
Sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet.
John Owen
4.
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
5.
The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all their days to mortify the indwelling power of sin.
John Owen
6.
Without mortification nothing can be done.
Philip Neri
7.
When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone.
John Owen
8.
Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.
Alice Thomas Ellis
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[A persons] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.
David Hume
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It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.
Roger L'Estrange