Ulysses S. Grant

I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.

American President

Adoniram Judson

The land of Beulah lies beyond the valley of the shadow of death. Many Christians spend all their days in a continual bustle, doing good. They are too busy to find either the valley or Beulah. Virtues they have, but are full of the life and attractions of nature, and unacquainted with the paths of mortification and death.

American Clergyman

Raoul Vaneigem

Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.

Belgian Philosopher

Mother Angelica

My life is such a contradiction. My soul yearns for holiness and then runs from the mortification necessary to attain it.

American Educator

John Owen

The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.

English Theologian

All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.

The word emphasizes the anxiety of being in a socially uncomfortable situation.

Social Risks

Mortification goes beyond slight shame; it reflects deep embarrassment.

Strong Emotion

The feeling of mortification may have lasting emotional effects.

Lasting Impact

In religion, mortification involves giving up personal comforts.

Spiritual Discipline

Mortification is not about hurting oneself, but about spiritual growth.

Not Self-Punishment

Mortification medically refers to a serious condition involving tissue death.

Medical Condition

The medical use implies a problematic or severe tissue problem, not minor.

Implication of Severity

 So you'll remember, people of that era would have had an external electronic device, right, something like this, and they all would have carried one of these around with them, and amongst their biggest fears was the sheer mortification