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Repent means to renounce sin ... and by God's grace to fill my mind with things that honor Him. — Billy Graham

I will no longer confer, differ, refer, defer, prefer, or suffer. I renounce the whole tribe of fero. I embrace absolute life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity. — Mikhail Bakunin

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

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

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

If we could renounce our benevolence and discard our righteousness, the people would again become filial and kindly. — Lao-Tzu

Renounce poor work.
Shun trivial work.
Entertain respectable work.
Welcome superior work.
Honor transcendent work. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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

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. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

We need a total renunciation of war. We must renounce war totally, because now we can destroy all life on earth. — Benjamin Creme

For many things were shown,
Recorded and written down.
But what is God to do,
When His Word you do renounce? — Kari L. Greenaway

But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most ... he saw fireflies where there were none. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I think man will never renounce real suffering, that is destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole origin of consciousness. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end. — Joseph Conrad

Unless Hamas recognizes Israel's right to exist and renounces terror, the Palestinian Authority should receive no direct U.S. assistance. — Lois Capps

Living is an arbitrary matter and I have every right to renounce it. — Jerzy Kosinski

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself. — Sivananda Saraswati

You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case. — Timothy Snyder

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. — Moshe Dayan

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

The Bible is not for the people; whosoever will be saved must renounce it. It is a forbidden book. Bible societies are satanic contrivances. — Pope Pius IV

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

Desire joy and thank God for it. Renounce it, if need be, for other's sake. That's joy beyond joy. — Robert Browning

The best measure of a successful life is the way we turn away, we renounce, and even by the way we depart it. — Tariq Ramadan

The life of this transitory world is the expectation of death: to renounce life is to escape from the expectation of annihilation. — Saib Tabrizi

To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage. — Ambrose Bierce

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. — Oswald Chambers

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

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

They soon experienced, that those who refuse the sword must renounce the sceptre. — Edward Gibbon

The only life that is happy is the life that can renounce the amenities of the world. To it the amenities of the world are so many graces of fate. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

If God forgave you, then forget your past and renounce it — Sunday Adelaja

It's an utter, utter necessity to renounce war forever. And nothing new can be built until this is done. — Benjamin Creme

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

Venture too far for love ... and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself. You end up just sailing from port to port. — Michael Cunningham

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

I've never had any rights in this country and I'm happy to renounce any I'm supposed to have. That way they can't bother me. — Dimitri Verhulst

Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies.
(Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.) — Voltaire

By renouncing samsara, we renounce our habitual grasping, unhappy minds. And by renouncing samsara, we embrace our potential for enlightenment. — Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

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

Renounce," he says again and now it begins to make sense.
"No," I breathe and prop myself up on my elbows. "Never. — Celia Mcmahon

In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. — Paulo Coelho

It's hard to renounce heroes unless you have one to start with. — Joseph Bottum

Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Great difference between the priests and the Upanishads. The Upanishads say, renounce. — Swami Vivekananda

We renounce no friendship. But it may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly. And — J.R.R. Tolkien

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

By faith it appears that in order to understand the meaning of life I must renounce my reason, the very thing for which alone a meaning is required. — Leo Tolstoy

Why should you renounce everything? You are all right as you are, following the middle ... — Ramakrishna

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

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

The essence of true safety is to observe silence, to look at the end of things and to renounce the world. — Baha'u'llah

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

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

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

One has renounced the great life when one renounces war. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

I emphasize that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life. But I can renounce all at the time of need, and that is the real sacrifice. — Bhagat Singh

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

The good renounce everything. The pure don't babble about sensual desires. Whether touched by pleasure or pain, the wise show no change of temper. — Gautama Buddha

If we could renounce our artful contrivances and discard our (scheming for) gain, there would be no thieves nor robbers. — Lao-Tzu

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

To put one's faith in King Jesus is to renounce his enemies. — Greg Gilbert

If the second date seems to be going well, it's pretty much a given that by dessert I'll renounce my faith — Josh Stern

Renounce and enjoy! — Anonymous

Driving Sarah Palin To 'Renounce' Her 'Republican Ties — Anonymous

My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy. — Jalal Talabani

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

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

America, like all nations, has to renounce war. — Benjamin Creme

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

Renounce all things, and thou shalt find all things; give up thy lust, and thou shalt find rest. — Thomas A Kempis

To create a good philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician. — Bertrand Russell

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

Renounce love and you can achieve demonic focus. — Glen Duncan

The same grace that brings salvation teaches us to renounce ungodly living. — Jerry Bridges

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

When Christianity takes itself seriously, it must either renounce or master the world. — Roland H. Bainton

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion. — Gustav Mahler

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

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something. — Michelangelo Antonioni

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

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

In Dante the hero would rather flee and renounce the tempting embrace instead of yielding to his desires and enduring the attendant dangers. — Peter Weiss

But a man cannot renounce his life for half a day: There is either the rest of eternity or nothing. — Antonio Di Benedetto

Yeah!" Nicole shouted. "Now we are going to renounce Belial, his demons and his lies. Would you like me to help you or do you — Nancy Bowser

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

Whatever our definition of truth may be, we can never renounce Descartes' clare et distincte (clarity and distinctness). — Lev Shestov

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

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

We are being torn apart between the avidity for knowing and the despair of having known. The goad will not renounce its sting and we our hope. — Rene Char

That which you cannot express is Love.
That which you cannot reject/renounce is Beauty.
That which you cannot avoid is the Truth. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

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

It is very difficult also to sacrifice one's suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering. — G.I. Gurdjieff