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• He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Humanity, Desire, Liberty

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin, Arthur Lehning (1973). “Selected writings [of] Michael Bakunin”, Jonathan Cape

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• We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past.

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Attitude, Responsibility, Dark

  "How Poland once spoke about the Shoah" by Inna Rogatchi, www.israelnationalnews.com. February 28, 2018.

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• Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

  Alexis Carrel

  Believe, Pride, Thinking

  "Saiva Siddhanta" by Saiva Siddhanta Mahasamajam, volume 21, p. 59, 1986.

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• It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce 'the policy of strength' toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.

  Moshe Dayan

  Government, Israel, Weakness

  "The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World". Book by Avi Shlaim, 2000.

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• The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Men, Jewels, Empires

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 121, 1982.

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• You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind I did not forget the country or the empire, which, as Prince of Wales and lately as King, I have for twenty-five years tried to serve.

  King Edward VIII

  Country, Kings, Years

  Broadcast, 11 Dec. 1936, in The Times 12 Dec. 1936

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• The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.

  John Ortberg

  Jesus, Mean, Choices

  John Ortberg, Stephen Sorenson, Amanda Sorenson (2003). “If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat: A 6-session Journey on Learning to Trust God”, p.32, Zondervan

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• That which you cannot express is Love.
  That which you cannot reject/renounce is Beauty.
  That which you cannot avoid is the Truth.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Rejects

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  To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

  Thomas Paine

  Funny, 4th Of July, Medicine

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• Those who cannot renounce attachment to the results of their work are far from the path.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Attachment, Path

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• There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.

  Sigmund Freud

  Children, Play, Giving

  Sigmund Freud (1962). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Give yourself to reading.’... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works, especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Reading, Light, Giving

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• But time, as well as healing all wounds, taught me something strange too: that it's possible to love more than one person in a lifetime. I remarried. I'm very happy with my new wife, and I can't imagine living without her. This, however, doesn't mean that I have to renounce all my past experiences, as long as I'm careful not to compare my two lives. You can't measure love the way you can the length of a road or the height of a building.

  Paulo Coelho

  Mean, Healing, Past

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• Indeed all the saints are taught the same lesson - to renounce their own strength, and rely on the power of God; their own policy, and cast themselves on the wisdom of God; their own righteousness, and expect all from the pure mercy of God in Christ, which act of faith is so pleasing to God, that such a soul shall never be ashamed.

  William Gurnall

  Mercy Of God, Soul, Saint

  William Gurnall (1865). “The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.30

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• The followers of Christ have been called to peace. . . . And they must not only have peace but make it. And to that end they renounce all violence and tumult. In the cause of Christ nothing is to be gained by such methods . . . . His disciples keep the peace by choosing to endure suffering themselves rather than inflict it on others. They maintain fellowship where others would break it off. They renounce hatred and wrong. In so doing they overcome evil with good, and establish the peace of God in the midst of a world of war and hate.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Peace, Hate, War

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• To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation-above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends with himself-here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Honesty, Kindness

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “A Christmas Sermon”, p.5, Xist Publishing

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• I don’t understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn’t it be better to retreat to a faraway corner of the world, where all its noise and complications would be heard no more? Then we could renounce culture and ambitions; we would lose everything and gain nothing; for what is there to be gained from this world?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Dream, Ambition, Would Be

  "On the Heights of Despair". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1934.

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• You renounce your friendship even in the hour of our need ' he said. 'Yet you were glad indeed to receive our aid when you came at last to these shores fainthearted loiterers and well-nigh emptyhanded. In huts on the beaches would you be dwelling still had not the Noldor carved out your haven and toiled upon your walls.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Beach, Wall, Dwelling

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.62, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love.

  Paulo Coelho

  Order, Suffering, Brida

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• 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.

  Paulo Coelho

  Eye, Order, Things In Life

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• To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Rights, Humanity

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• When the Bible itself becomes irksome, inquire whether you have not been spoiling your appetite by sweetmeats and renounce them; and believe that the Word is the wire along which the voice of God will certainly come to you if the heart is hushed and the attention fixed.

  F.B. Meyer

  Believe, Heart, Voice

  F. B. Meyer (2010). “The Secret of Guidance”, p.42, Moody Publishers

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• A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of individual minds who are weak, meek, submissive and impotent – who renounce their creative supremacy for the sake of the “whole” and accept humbly that the “whole’s” verdict – we don’t get a collective super-brain. We get only the weak, meek, submissive and impotent collective mind.

  Ayn Rand

  Numbers, Creative, Mind

  Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff (1999). “The Journals of Ayn Rand”, p.102, Penguin

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• God isn't interested in watching you enact some performance of personality in order to comply with some crackpot notion you have about how a spiritual person looks or behaves. We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, dramatic change of character, that we have to renounce our individuality.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Spiritual, Character, Order

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.201, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Fate, Accepting

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “Crime and Punishment”, p.45, Vintage

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