It seems that throughout history, self-denial has been an undeniably fashionable virtue. The early Christians shunned meat and fish for six weeks a year, ...

Self denial is thought to be a hallmark of Divine Asceticism. Asceticism is a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from worldly pleasures, often for the purpose of pursuing spiritual goals, self ...

Self-denial is an essential step on the road to joy. The road to joy, for Jesus, ran through Jerusalem. It was a path of self-denial, sacrifice, and death—before it was the passage into joy ...

Self-denial, with self-love, puts you in touch with what matters most to Christians. It focuses the mind on what one believes: the work and love of Jesus.

When I was 14, I got my first job, as a camp counselor. I got to keep half of my earnings, but my parents took the other half to put toward my education.

Many plants are self-incompatible — that is, they have mechanisms to prevent fertilization by their own pollen. A familiar and uncommonly versatile protein, ubiquitin, is found to be a central ...

“Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.” (Mk 8,34) For sure, every time we read these words, our Pavlovian reaction would be to be filled with ...

This obsession with self-denial - of information, entertainment, nourishment - follows a wave of hyper-consumption, which deems personal austerity to be back in vogue.