Renounce Quotes
We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.
By renouncing samsara, we renounce our habitual grasping, unhappy minds. And by renouncing samsara, we embrace our potential for enlightenment.
I would renounce, therefore, the attempt to create heaven on earth, and focus instead on reducing the hell.
The Bhakta (devotee) renounces all little loves for the almighty and omnipresent love.
Renounce all things, and thou shalt find all things; give up thy lust, and thou shalt find rest.
I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.
They must know but little of mankind who can imagine that, after they have been once seduced by luxury, they can ever renounce it.
To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
The only life that is happy is the life that can renounce the amenities of the world. To it the amenities of the world are so many graces of fate.
...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed.
Let us return to our eagle's nest in the Himalayas. It is waiting for us, for it is ours, eaglets of Europe, we need not renounce any part of our real nature...whence we formerly took our flight.
I do not appeal to you to screw up your courage and sacrifice for Christ. I appeal to you to renounce all you have to obtain life that satisfies your deepest longings.
In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.
We can remind the world that all the dead on both sides have not settled our differences, so now it is time for the living to renounce violence as a means of solving this conflict.
I will no longer confer, differ, refer, defer, prefer, or suffer. I renounce the whole tribe of fero. I embrace absolute life.
It is possible to renounce everything and attain enlightenment. But most people don't want to renounce; they wish to run away from responsibility and hard work.
None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.
Or renounce life altogether! Accept fate obediently as it is, once and for all, and stifle everything in myself, renouncing any right to act, to live, to love.
That which you cannot express is Love. That which you cannot reject/renounce is Beauty. That which you cannot avoid is the Truth.
I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.
Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here.
To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician.
We need a total renunciation of war. We must renounce war totally, because now we can destroy all life on earth.
I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it.
To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage.
The higher life begins for us ... when we renounce our own will to bow before a Divine law.
Desire joy and thank God for it. Renounce it, if need be, for other's sake. That's joy beyond joy.
Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims.
Being converted to Jesus is learning to so adore God that we would gladly renounce everything we have to follow Him.
Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught when convicted of his error, and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces truth, though with the sacrifice of favourite opinions.
In Dante the hero would rather flee and renounce the tempting embrace instead of yielding to his desires and enduring the attendant dangers.
The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.
I was born in the U.S. Why should anyone who has an unfavorable view of the American government renounce his or her citizenship? Why don't its supporters relinquish their citizenship first?
We can't experience all that Heaven has to offer until we renounce all that the world offers in its place.
Those who cannot renounce attachment to the results of their work are far from the path.
If my mother will not go to heaven, I renounce the privilege