Top 244 Renounce Quotes & Sayings

Those who cannot renounce attachment to the results of their work are far from the path.

America, like all nations, has to renounce war.

I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in place of democracy, for the starvation that stalks after it. I renounce war, and never again, directly or indirectly, will I sanction or support another.

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

Under the guidance of the Reich, Europe would speedily have become unified. Once the Jewish poison had been eradicated, unification would have been an easy matter. France and Italy, each defeated in turn at an interval of a few months by the two Germanic Powers, would have been well out of it. Both would have had to renounce their inappropriate aspirations to greatness. At the same time they would have had to renounce their pretensions in North Africa and the Near East; and that would have allowed Europe to pursue a bold policy of friendship towards Islam.

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

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

The United States supports the reintegration of people who have fought with the Taliban into Afghan society provided they: one, renounce al Qaeda, two, lay down their arms and renounce violence, and three, participate in the public political life of the country in accordance with the constitution.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here.

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

We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, drastic change of character, that we have to renounce our individuality. To know God, you only need to renounce one thing - your sense of division from God

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

To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.

At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new day of a most precious delusion.

The followers of Christ have been called to peace. . . . And they must not only have peace but make it. And to that end they renounce all violence and tumult. In the cause of Christ nothing is to be gained by such methods . . . . His disciples keep the peace by choosing to endure suffering themselves rather than inflict it on others. They maintain fellowship where others would break it off. They renounce hatred and wrong. In so doing they overcome evil with good, and establish the peace of God in the midst of a world of war and hate.

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

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

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.

To control the future requires the control of education and of the child. Hence, for Christians to tolerate statist education, or to allow their children to be trained thereby, means to renounce power in society, to renounce their children, and to deny Christ's Lordship over all of life.

Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.

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.

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

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

I call a man a sannyasin who breaks out of these institutions and lives spontaneously. To be a sannyasin is the most courageous act possible. To be a sannyasin means to live without the mind, and the moment you live without mind you live without society. The mind has created society, and society has created the mind; they are interdependent. To be a sannyasin means to renounce all that is false but not to renounce the world, to renounce all that is unauthentic, to renounce all the answers, to be responsive, spontaneously responsive, and not to think about the reasons, but to be real.

It is always for greater joy that you give up the lesser. This is practical religion-the attainment of freedom, renunciation. Renounce the lower so that you may get the higher. Renounce! Renounce! Sacrifice! Give up! Not for zero. Not for nothing. But to get the higher.

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

I am not saying that you should renounce things, that you should escape from your home and renounce the marketplace. No, don't misunderstand my statement. What is, is good. Nothing will happen either by dropping things and escaping from them or by clinging to them. Remain where you are, but begin the search within. Much outer searching has already been done, now go within. Now know the one, in this knowing one attains all. All desires are at once fulfilled.

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

Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims.

Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Not only do the followers of Jesus renounce their rights, they renounce their own righteousness too. They get no praise for their achievements or sacrifices. They cannot have righteous– ness except by hungering and thirsting for it (this applies equally to their own righteousness and to the righteousness of God on earth ), always they look forward to the future righteousness of God, but they cannot establish it for themselves. Those who follow Jesus grow hungry and thirsty on the way.

Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.

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

We totally and absolutely renounce all forms of terrorism.

Renounce love and you can achieve demonic focus.

It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.

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

I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen.

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

One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.

It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce 'the policy of strength' toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.

After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.

It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight.

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.

It is possible to renounce everything and attain enlightenment. But most people don't want to renounce; they wish to run away from responsibility and hard work.

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

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

The higher life begins for us ... when we renounce our own will to bow before a Divine law.

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.

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

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

Except a man fear the Lord, he is unable to renounce sin.

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

They must know but little of mankind who can imagine that, after they have been once seduced by luxury, they can ever renounce it.

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.

Sri Yukteswar used to poke gentle fun at the commonly inadequate conceptions of renunciation."A beggar cannot renounce wealth," Master would say. "If a man laments: 'My business has failed; my wife has left me; I will renounce all and enter a monastery,' to what worldly sacrifice is he referring? He did not renounce wealth and love; they renounced him!"Saints like Gandhi, on the other hand, have made not only tangible material sacrifices, but also the more difficult renunciation of selfish motive and private goal, merging their inmost being in the stream of humanity as a whole.

Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself.

I wish I could renounce politics.

I would renounce, therefore, the attempt to create heaven on earth, and focus instead on reducing the hell.