The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate.
All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.
We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.
Soul is the central point of spiritual discipline.
In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.
In earthly life, a person can conceal whether evil or good is active in his soul. After death, this is no longer possible. The spirit form presents after death the physiognomical expression of what the person was on earth.
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
To the extent that human spirits are made gentle by the social state, sensibility increases; as it increases, the severity of punishment must diminish if one wishes to maintain a constant relation between object and feeling.
With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.