Quotes About Renounce

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

Only in the nineteenth century did the English throne renounce its claim to the French crown.

There are many things the government can't do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the people

The glory of man is knowledge, but the glory of woman is to renounce knowledge.

Therefore, unless we are ready to renounce God and the Scripture, we must say with Anselm, "Why then did 'the Fool say in his heart, there is no God'…unless because he was stupid and a fool?

2 Chronicles 20:12 NIV) Here are the key phrases: "...we have no power...we do not know what to do..." So they had to turn to God for supernatural help and they knew the way to turn. They renounced the natural to invoke the supernatural.

I renounce every limit I have ever placed on Jesus. I renounce every limit I have placed on him in my life. I break all limitations, renounce them, revoke them. Jesus, forgive me for restraining you in my life.

There is hope of freedom because of what Christ has done. Now you have an option. But you do have to stop presenting yourself over to sin as best you can. Your choices matter. You need to renounce the ways you have presented yourself to sin, and represent yourself to Christ.

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 me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless.

when she heard the grand title and the great name, her face had taken on that indifferent look—no, more than indifferent, hostile, contemptuous—which is the sign of frustrated desire in proud and passionate natures. Albertine's nature was splendid, but its hidden qualities had been able to develop only under the restrictions constituted by our tastes, or our mourning for the tastes which we have had to renounce

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 if it were not for that book, Catholics would never be led to renounce their own faith.

The end of knowledge is wisdom The end of culture is perfection The end of wisdom is freedom The end of education is character. And character consists of eagerness to renounce one's selfish greed.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early, and the human race come to an end.

Whoever digs at verse must renounce all idols; he has to break with everything. He cannot have truth for his horizon, or the future as his element, for he has no right to hope. He has, on the contrary, to despair. Whoever delves into verse dies; he encounters his death as an abyss.

I had him say: "I renounce any evil spirits of depression, and, in Jesus' name, I command them to leave." (Laity have authority over their own bodies and can command demons to leave them in Jesus' name).

An ethics that does not command us to renounce is a crime against the dignity to which we should aspire and against the happiness which we can obtain.

Let us repudiate the abominable suggestion that we should renounce friendship and love in order to banish misfortune. On the contrary, let us mingle our souls just as we weave our bodies together. May the beloved be the land of our shattered roots.

renounce it as soon as it comes to mind—renounce everything in its entirety until there is no hidden dishonesty or craftiness about you at all.

Postcolonial nation-building was an extraordinary project: hundreds of millions of people persuaded to renounce – and often scorn – a world of the past that had endured for thousands of years, and to undertake a gamble of creating modern citizens who would be secular, enlightened, cultured and heroic.

Why has the wicked man renounced God? He says to himself, “You will never call me to account.”

You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust.

It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age,