#renunciation

God isn't interested in watching you enact some performance of personality in order to comply with some crackpot notion you have about how a spiritual person looks or behaves. We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, dramatic change of character, that we have to renounce our individuality. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#change

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#life #pain #renunciation #life

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war. ↗

— Simone Weil

#except #including #make #nation #option

I found myself facing a Christian Science Reading Room. My God! It had been eight years. There had never been any renunciation of religion on my part, but like so many people, it was a gradual fading away. ↗

— Henry Fonda

#away #been #christian #eight #facing

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#civilization #extent #impossible #instinct #overlook

Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#discrimination #love #naturally #renunciation #through

The oath of renunciation and allegiance is a solemn vow taken by thousands of immigrants each year to become a United States citizen. The oath is the fundamental statement of allegiance to the United States, and this allegiance is what unites America. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#america #become #citizen #each #fundamental

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#end #marriage #protection #religion #renunciation

If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#christ #christianity #discipleship #discipline #fasting

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#remains #renunciation #sorrow #though #willingly