I constantly say things that I regret. I mortify myself constantly.
If your neighbors talk about you, and you think that they do wrong in speaking evil of you, do not let them know that your ever heard a word, and conduct yourselves as if they always did right, and it will mortify them, and they will say, "We'll not try this game any longer. "
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.
Julie always tried to stand beside me, or talk to me, or in some other way mortify me.
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.
For to pretend that men may live habitually sinful lives without any attempt by the Spirit to mortify sin in them, nor with any desire for repentance, is to deny the Christian religion.
Good breeding and good nature do incline us rather to help and raise people up to ourselves, than to mortify and depress them, and, in truth, our own private interest concurs in it, as it is making ourselves so many friends, instead of so many enemies.
He who does not mortify his palate will neither know how to mortify his flesh.
There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
