Quotes About Renunciation

Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.

2.27 THE ULTIMATEWith compassion and renunciation walking, With wants and desires ever shedding, With love within one's heart flowing, Peace and Divinity shall never be wanting.[158] - 2

Sanctification has a double aspect. Its positive side is vivification, the growing and maturing of the new man; its negative side is mortification, the weakening and killing of the old man.

Power isn't having the world at your fingertips; it is having the world at your fingertips and being able to give it up!

Then we were both lectured by our guruji. He told us clearly what was expected of us: never again to use a vehicle, to take food only once a day, not to use Western medicine, to abstain from emotion, never to hurt any living creature. He told us we must not react to attacks, must not beg, must not cry, must not complain, must not demand, must not feel superiority, must learn not to be disturbed by illusory things.

As it was now evident that the future was to be one of renunciation, of self-forgetting, an oblivion tinged with bitterness, he formlessly reasoned in favor of reconsidering his resolution against Fulkerson's offer.

But as for thee, poor soul, who art persuaded to renounce thy lusts, to throw away the conceit of thy own righteousness, that thou mayest run with more speed to Christ, and art so possessed with the excellency of Christ, thy own present need of him, and salvation by him, that thou pantest after him more than life itself, in God's name go and speed, be of good comfort; he

Let me forget the world and be swallowed up in the desire to glorify God.

Oh! it is sweet to be thus weaned from friends, and from myself, and dead to the present world, that so I may live wholly to and upon the blessed God!

An act of renunciation is an act of union with God. The Divine Master looks lovingly upon a person who gains a victory over self.

In one word, one should desire of God desirelessness. For desire alone is at the root of all suffering. It is the cause of repeated births and deaths. It is the obstacle in the way of liberation.

The highest and greatest goal that every soul has to reach is God. As everything needs renunciation, that highest goal needs the highest renunciation.

Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God.

Renunciation means that none can serve both God and Mammon.

As iron cast into fire loses its rust and becomes glowing white, so he who turns completely to God is stripped of his sluggishness and changed into a new man.

Never become attached to anything that continues to hurt God. For you to be free of it, God must be allowed to hurt whatever it may be.

I count everything loss, to gain anything under the power of grace in Jesus Christ.

I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.

If you let go a little you will have a little happiness. If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.

A true Master does not "give up" something. A true Master simply sets it aside, as he would do with anything for which he no longer has any use.

305 "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose."~

Una de las características del hombre es que nunca renuncia a nada que haya probado, si lo ha probado con impunidad o con éxito, tanto da.

Cómo alcanzaré la vida eterna?" "Ya es la vida eterna. Entra en el presente". "Pero si ya estoy en el presente… o no?". "No" "¿Por qué no?" "´Porque no has renunciado al pasado". "Y ¿por qué iba a renunciar a mi pasado? No todo el pasado es malo…" "No hay que renunciar al pasado porque sea malo, sino porque está muerto". Anthony de Mello.