Renounce Quotes

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

It is easier to renounce worldly possessions than it is to renounce the love of them

To renounce things is not to give them up. It is to acknowledge that all things go away.

A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something.

Renounce all those material things that you gained by exploiting other human beings.

The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest.

When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the forefront.

The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.

I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies.

We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.

America, like all nations, has to renounce war.

Good fortune leads one to the highest glory, But to renounce it calls for equal courage.

What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words, renunciation is making yourself more available, more gentle and open to others.

One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.

A guy calls me a genius, and I'm going to renounce? I'm not going to renounce him.

The Bhakta (devotee) renounces all little loves for the almighty and omnipresent love.

To be unattached is not to renounce the world. If you renounce the world you are attached to the world; otherwise why should you renounce it? What is the point in renouncing it if you are not attached to it? Only attachment renounces. If you are really non-attached there is no question of any renunciation.

Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.

Isn't strength the ability to renounce every lie in your heart?

In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love.

To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage.

None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.

We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.

I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it.

We can't experience all that Heaven has to offer until we renounce all that the world offers in its place.

Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.

The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.

That which you cannot express is Love. That which you cannot reject/renounce is Beauty. That which you cannot avoid is the Truth.

I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether.

Or renounce life altogether! Accept fate obediently as it is, once and for all, and stifle everything in myself, renouncing any right to act, to live, to love.

To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician.

Renounce love and you can achieve demonic focus.

Being converted to Jesus is learning to so adore God that we would gladly renounce everything we have to follow Him.