Renounce Quotes

175 Renounce quotes by 132 unique authors

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the… — Anais Nin
Renounce love and you can achieve demonic focus. — Glen Duncan
I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make… — John Newton
...life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the nature of life… — Julian Barnes
Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.' Not only do the followers of Jesus renounce their rights, they… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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… — Robert Louis Stevenson
The followers of Christ have been called to peace. . . . And they must not only have peace but make it. And to that… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption. — Khalil Gibran
The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle. — Heraclitus
All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in… — Milarepa
By renouncing samsara, we renounce our habitual grasping, unhappy minds. And by renouncing samsara, we embrace our potential for enlightenment. — Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for. — Maajid Nawaz
For most of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed… — John Ortberg
A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering. — George Gurdjieff
I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research. — John Forbes Nash, Jr.
I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it. — David Mallet
Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that… — Maria Monk
The United States supports the reintegration of people who have fought with the Taliban into Afghan society provided they: one, renounce al Qaeda, two, lay… — Richard Holbrooke
Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here — Unknown Author
For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early, and the human race come to an end. — Joseph Conrad
And again, Subhuti, suppose a woman or a man were to renounce all their belongings as many times as there are grains of sand in… — Buddha
The glory of man is knowledge, but the glory of woman is to renounce knowledge. — Vikrant Parsai
Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force… — Bernhard Von Bulow
I'll renounce the fame of this gluttonous age and be a Born-again American Resistance is to blame! — Unknown Author
By day, or on a cloudless night, a pilot may drink the wine of the gods, but it has an earthly taste; he's a god… — Unknown Author

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