One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Renounce all those material things that you gained by exploiting other human beings. — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
The Bhakta (devotee) renounces all little loves for the almighty and omnipresent love. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is easier to renounce worldly possessions than it is to renounce the love of them — Walter Hilton Copy Share Image
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“When you choose an elder, you renounce your own will and yield it to him in complete submission, complete” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I would renounce, therefore, the attempt to create heaven on earth, and focus instead on reducing the hell. — Alan Borovoy Copy Share Image
Renounce to the desire of possessing worldly things: this is the first step in the path of perfection; by mean of this… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
Being converted to Jesus is learning to so adore God that we would gladly renounce everything we have to follow Him. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
Alaska is what happens when Willy Wonka and the witch from Hansel and Gretel elope, buy a place together upstate, renounce their… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself. — Swami Sivananda Copy Share Image
As for my own views, they've of course evolved over the years. This conception of 'renouncing beliefs' is very odd, as if… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why… — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ''I will be a saint'' means I will despoil myself of all… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
It seems certain, that though a man, in a flush of humour, after intense reflection on the many contradictions and imperfections of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Nay, are there many situations more sublimely tragic than the struggle of the soul with the demand to renounce a work which… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Indeed all the saints are taught the same lesson - to renounce their own strength, and rely on the power of God;… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
Let us return to our eagle's nest in the Himalayas. It is waiting for us, for it is ours, eaglets of Europe,… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every… — Moshe Dayan Copy Share Image
It is far easier, though not very easy, to develop and preserve a spiritual outlook on life than it is to make… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The disciples had nothing to gain by lying and starting a new religion. They faced hardship, ridicule, hostility, and martyr's deaths. In… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
While other faiths are also often oppressive, sharia law is especially oppressive. Its interpretations stipulate the execution of Muslims who commit adultery,… — Peter Tatchell Copy Share Image
Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Not only do the followers of Jesus renounce… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If the many and the One be indeed the same Reality, then it is not all modes of worship alone, but equally… — Sister Nivedita Copy Share Image
Those who cannot renounce attachment to the results of their work are far from the path. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something. — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
