self-sparing

"Hide my face in my hands/Shame wells in my throat/Our comfortable existence is reduced to a shallow meaningless party": that's no self-sparing.

Zenyatta Mondatta 1980

He gave generously, if fitfully, to others; he put his own life into them, but for all his deep and lifelong belief in individual liberty and the absolute value of personal life and personal relationships, scarcely understood or tolerated wholly independent lives by the side of his own; his description of his agony is scrupulously and bitterly detailed and accurate, never self-sparing, eloquent but not sentimental, and remorselessly egocentric.

The Great Amateur Berlin, Isaiah 1968

The root of every evil is a self-loving heart, or self-pity, self-sparing; it is from self-love, or from excessive and unlawful love for oneself, that all the passions proceed: coldness, insensibility, hard-heartedness towards

My Life in Christ, or Moments of Spiritual Serenity and Contemplation, of Reverent Feeling, of Earnest Self-Amendment, and of Peace in God 1829-1909 1897

There should be no flinching a second time, no putting the burden on others 'shoulders, no self-sparing at another's cost.

In Kings' Byways Stanley John Weyman 1891

I say this, because worldly, self-confident, and light-minded people, not knowing of what they speak, are wont to justify their own shallow and self-sparing religion by sinful levities on this most sacred duty.

Sermons. Volume the Second. 1808-1892 1848

A self-sparing temper will make a man not only an utter contradiction to his Lord, but even to himself.

Sermons. [Vol. I.] 1808-1892 1843

In a sinless state the duty of self-sparing is of easy fulfillment, partly for the reason that it corresponds to a natural law immanent in all living creatures, and partly because disturbing influences are conceivable only where they are occasioned by the fault of man himself, — for example, when he presumptuously exposes himself to such natural influences as he is not yet able to resist, — which is in fact possible seeing that, also for the unfallen state, the complete mastery over nature is presented as a condition yet to be attained to by moral effort.

Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics. 1819-1870 1873

a warning to all sinful and shallow Christians; to all easy, formal, exterior minds; and to the worldly, self-sparing, and light-hearted.

Sermons. [Vol. I.] 1808-1892 1843