All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
I am a mortician who tells you that you don't necessarily need a mortician.
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.
It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away.
Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.