Quotes about Renunciation
When he found one very precious pearl, he went away and sold all he had and bought it.
— Matthew 13:46
And when they had brought their boats ashore, they left everything and followed Him.
— Luke 5:11
God never tells us to give up things just for the sake of giving them up, but He tells us to give them up for the sake of the only thing worth having, namely, life with Himself. It is a matter of loosening the bands that hold back our lives.
— Oswald Chambers
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.
— Matthew 16:25
“Look,” said Peter, “we have left all we had to follow You.”
— Luke 18:28
“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for My sake and for the gospel
— Mark 10:29
Those who cannot renounce attachment to the results of their work are far from the path.
— Mahatma Gandhi
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and for the gospel will save it.
— Mark 8:35
Peter began to say to Him, “Look, we have left everything and followed You.”
— Mark 10:28
Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.
— Matthew 10:39
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.
— JI Packer
In the same way, any one of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be My disciple.
— Luke 14:33