Renunciation Quotes - Page 7

• If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Humility

  William Law, P. G. Stanwood (1978). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ; The Spirit of Love”, p.52, Paulist Press

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• Even in this secular country, the threat posed by religious fundamentalists is never very far away. Every major religious text exhorts the same principles - that of unyielding obedience to a supernatural being, and renunciation of the intellect and personal aspirations.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Country, Religious, Supernatural Beings

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• I set out with a perfect distrust of my own abilities, a total renunciation of every speculation of my own, and with a profound reverence for the wisdom of our ancestors, who have left us the inheritance of so happy a Constitution and so flourishing an empire, and, what is a thousand times more valuable, the treasury of the maxims and principles which formed the one and obtained the other.

  Edmund Burke

  Profound, Perfect, Principles

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.269

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• I believe that renunciation of the Soviet Union was an expression of the free will of the Russian people.

  Vladislav Surkov

  Believe, Expression, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The price of civilization is instinctual renunciation.

  Sigmund Freud

  Civilization

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• The Sermon on the Mount...went straight to my heart. I compared it with the Gita. My young mind tried to unify the teaching of the Gita, the `Light of Asia' and the Sermon on the Mount. That renunciation was the highest form of religion appealed to me greatly.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Teaching, Heart, Light

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• Faith implies four things: self-renunciation, reliance with utter confidence on Christ, obedience, and a changed life.

  Billy Graham

  Self, Four, Christ

  Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.136, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It is a grave misconception to regard the mystical progress as passing mostly through ecstasies and raptures. On the contrary, it passes just as much through broken hearts and bruised emotions, through painful sacrifices and melancholy renunciations.

  Paul Brunton

  Heart, Sacrifice, Broken

  Paul Brunton (1984). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Perspectives (posthumous)”

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• I find C major to be the key of strength, but also the key of regret. E major is the key of confidence. A-flat major is the key of renunciation.

  Bob Dylan

  Regret, Keys, Flats

  Bob Dylan (2007). “Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Delight, Deliverance, Embrace

  Rabindranath Tagore (2011). “The Heart of God: Prayers of Rabindranath Tagore”, p.23, Tuttle Publishing

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• We need a total renunciation of war. We must renounce war totally, because now we can destroy all life on earth.

  Benjamin Creme

  War, Needs, Earth

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Thanksgiving, Self, Desire

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.115, SCM Press

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• The true strength of the Christian is the power of truth and love, which leads to the renunciation of all violence. Faith and violence are incompatible.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, And Love, Violence

  "Pope Francis: ‘Faith And Violence Are Incompatible", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 19, 2013.

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• If you wish to see the blessings which "God has prepared for those who love Him" (I COR 2:9), then take up your abode in the desert of the renunciation of your own will, and flee the world. What world? The world of the lust of the eyes, of your fallen self (I JN 2:16), the presumptuousness of your own thoughts, the deceit of things you can see.

  Niketas Stethatos

  Eye, Blessing, Self

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• There are the spiritually consumptive ones: hardly are they born when they begin to die, and long for doctrines of lassitude and renunciation.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Long, Doctrine, Born

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.51, e-artnow

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• Perhaps Westerners are in a better position to practice true renunciation than uneducated Orientals because most Western people, by the time they come to the Dharma, have led a pretty full worldly life with lots of sensual pleasures, money and lots of toys to play with. They have seen that the path of accumulation of worldly treasure does not lead to happiness or contentment. That's why they come to the Dharma.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Practice, Play, People

  Source: fpmt.org

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• Renunciation which is natural does not herald its coming by the blowing of trumpets. It comes in imperceptibly without letting anyone notice it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Doe, Natural, Trumpets

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Renunciation made for the sake of service is an ineffable joy of which none can deprive anyone, because that nectar springs from within and sustains life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spring, Joy, Sake

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, North Atlantic Books

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• Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Socialism, Economy, Rational

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.96, VM eBooks

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• Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and everything shall be added unto you. This is the one great duty, this is renunciation. Live for an ideal, and leave no place in the mind for anything else. Let us put forth all our energies to acquire that which never fails-our spiritual perfection. If we have true yearning for realization, we must struggle, and through struggle growth will come. We shall make mistakes, but they may be angels unawares.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Mistake, Struggle

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Powers of The Mind”, p.21, editionNEXT.com

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• I dare predict that the influence of the Treaty of Renunciation of War will be felt in a large proportion of all future international acts.

  Herbert Hoover

  War, Influence, Proportion

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• The entrance of the woman with equal rights into practical modern life, her new freedom, her finding herself side by side with men in the streets, offices, professions, factories, sports, and now even in political and military life, is one of those dissolutive phenomena in which, in most cases, it is difficult to perceive anything positive. In essence, all this is simply the renunciation of the woman's right to be a woman.

  Julius Evola

  Sports, Military, Men

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• Our camera does not produce pretty pictures, but exact duplications that, through our renunciation of photographic effects, turn out to be relatively objective. The photo can optically replace its object to a certain degree. This takes on special meaning if the object cannot be preserved.

  Bernd Becher

  Special, Cameras, Degrees

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• To ask for overt renunciation of a cherished doctrine is to expect too much of human nature. Men do not repudiate the doctrines and dogmas to which they have sworn their loyalty. Instead they rationalize, revise, and re-interpret them to meet new needs and new circumstances, all the while protesting that their heresy is the purest orthodoxy.

  J. William Fulbright

  Loyalty, Men, Doctrine

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• What if one of the core elements of a radical Christianity lay in a demand that we betray it, while the ultimate act of affirming God required the forsaking of God? And what if fidelity to the Judeo-Christian scriptures demanded their renunciation? In short, what if the only way of finding faith involved betraying it with a kiss?

  Peter Rollins

  Christian, Kissing, What If

  Peter, Rollins (2006). “How (Not) to Speak of God: Marks of the Emerging Church”, p.96, Paraclete Press

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