Dr. Chalmers defined the renovating force as the “expulsive power of a new affection.”
Any form of pleasure carries with it a sickening element after it passes a certain point.
The drunkard is not really cured until the smell of liquor repels him.
The smoker has not broken off his bad habit for good until tobacco nauseates him.
You are never free from a thing as long as you like it.
The woman who claims to have reformed, but who still likes to play with fire, lies; lies to herself probably as much as to you.
Disgust is the shadow cast by love. Where there is no shadow there is no substance.
The worth of a wife’s affection is exactly measured by her horror of disloyalty.
We climb by love; the rungs of the ladder are disgusts.
All adepts in soul matters have recognized the purifying and strengthening quality of renunciation. It is the gist of Buddhism. It is the meat of Christianity. It is the core of all important philosophies.