Renounced Quotes
49 Renounced quotes by 45 unique authors
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Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Imitation of Christ is a cherished treasure of the Christian world. This great book was written by a Roman Catholic monk. "Written", perhaps, is…
— Swami Vivekananda
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In any activity, we have to know what to expect, how to reach our objectives and what capacity we possess for the proposed task. The…
— Paulo Coelho
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God called Abraham and commanded him to go out from the country where he was living. With this call God has roused us all, and…
— Justin Martyr
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This my goodness does to endow the souls of the just more fully with spiritual riches when for my love they are stripped of material…
— St. Catherine of Siena
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SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Alternatively, suppose Qaddafi winds up hanging from a lamppost in his favorite party dress. If you're a Third World dictator, what lessons would you draw?…
— Mark Steyn
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It’s all too easy to turn the fight of faith into sanctification-by-checklist. Take care of a few bad habits, develop a couple good ones, and…
— Kevin DeYoung
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After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central…
— Kenzaburo Oe
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I would like to quote a very prejudicial doctrine that was handed down by the Supreme Court in 1823. It said that the Indian Nations…
— Floyd Red Crow Westerman
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An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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When Alex left for Alaska," Franz remembers, "I prayed. I asked God to keep his finger on the shoulder of that one; I told him…
— Jon Krakauer
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Germany has solemnly recognized and guaranteed France her frontiers as determined after the Saar plebiscite... We thereby finally renounced all claims to Alsace-Lorraine, a land…
— Adolf Hitler
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Interest in Education will acquire great strength only from the moment when belief in a God and His care is renounced, just as the art…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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All the sleepers in a night of delution beholding so many dreams. In this world of darkness, only those who sever themselves from the meterial…
— Tulsidas
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Warriorship is so tender, without skin, without tissue, naked and raw. It is soft and gentle. You have renounced putting on a new suit of…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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We must make clear to the Germans that the wrong for which their fallen leaders are on trial is not that they lost the war,…
— Robert H. Jackson
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It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it…
— Emile Durkheim
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He who has renounced all violence towards all living beings, weak or strong, who neither kills nor causes others to kill - him I do…
— Gautama Buddha
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It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Why should not we, who have renounced the king's authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which the bear and…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Having found in many books different methods of going to GOD, and divers practices of the spiritual life, I thought this would serve rather to…
— Brother Lawrence
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No person is free until he or she is free at the center. When we let go there, we are free indeed. When the self…
— E. Stanley Jones
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