Whence comes this shameful degradation of heart and mind to which so many fall victims, if not from the misery and abjection into which property plunges them?
No eye had pity on thee to do any of these things for thee, out of compassion to thee: but thou wast cast out upon the face of the earth in the abjection of thy soul, in the day that thou wast born.
See my abjection and my labour; and forgive me all my sins.
Remember that of yourself you are mere nothingness, possessing only the abjection of your sins and of your countless imperfections.
My Blessed Father has taught me," she would say on such occasions, "that the love of one's own abjection ought never to be one step distant from our hearts.
Yea, love for thee and longing have mastered me and clad With sickness and bequeathed me abjection and dismay.
The quickest means of attaining peace of heart is love of our own abjection and miseries, voluntary offence against God, however, excepted.
This love of one’s personal abjection derives profit from everything, even from falls, which should never discourage us.
A soul that loves her own abjection laughs at discouragement and combats it with all her strength.
It is a hideous thing this heroism of abjection in which bursts forth all that weakness has of strength; this civilization attacked by cynicism and defending itself by barbarity.
This sublimeness combines with their abjection to overwhelm them and raise them up.
The abjection that was present to him as of the essence quite failed to peep out, and he soon enough saw that if she was arranging she could be trusted to arrange.
Abjection is not the result of the faithful discharge of duty, however trying the circumstances may be.
There is no more abjection in the colonial status than in any other.
According to this opinion, slaves were a mean race, far below the dignity of freemen: they were a race degraded by Jupiter himself, marked by a stamp of humiliation, and predestined to their state of abjection and debasement.
The system of castes most forcibly contributes to arrest the development of the popular element, by condemning the majority of the people of a country to a state of perpetual abjection and slavery.
Indians, walking beside them with their inimitable gait, make exquisite gestures of abjectionto the clumsy white Sahibs huddled uncomfortably on the back seat.
Here the patience, the beauty, the abjection before the Devilish-Divine; there the defiance, the cult of the proud self.
