Renounced Quotes

49 quotes by 45 authors

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
It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead. — Thomas Jefferson
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
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
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
We have in effect renounced our Worldly citizenship when we receive the King of Kings and the Prince of Peace, Lord of Lords, God of… — David Berg
All have I overcome, all do I know. From all am I detached. All have I renounced. Wholly absorbed am I in ``the destruction of… — Gautama Buddha
The man who is free from credulity, but knows the uncreated, who has cut all ties, removed all temptations, renounced all desires, he is the… — Max Muller
The life of action need not be renounced. If you meditate for an hour or two every day you can then carry on with your… — Ramana Maharshi
A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and… — J.R.R. Tolkien
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like… — Thomas Paine
It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing those… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The necessary consequence of man's right to life is his right to self-defense. In a civilized society, force may be used only in retaliation and… — Ayn Rand
Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God… — Philip Yancey
..when I say that "he's a truly nasty man," I mean he has so thoroughly renounced everything good that he might have inside him that… — Muriel Barbery
He shrank from hearing Margaret's very name mentioned; he, while he blamed her--while he was jealous of her--while he renounced her--he loved her sorely, in… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Today only the person who no longer believes in a happy ending, only he who has consciously renounced it, is able to live. A happy… — Ernst Junger
The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover… — Brennan Manning
It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything,… — Aldous Huxley
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. — Thomas Paine

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