Quotes about Renunciation

We want everything God has to offer without giving anything up.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Turn back' —turn back from doing things your own way, from organizing your life according to your own hopes and whims. If God is becoming king, and if Jesus is being installed as the human king through whom God's kingdom is now happening, the only appropriate reaction is to abandon our own little hopes and schemes and let God be God in our lives. And through our lives.

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.

Why has the wicked man renounced God? He says to himself, “You will never call me to account.”

Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

When he found one very precious pearl, he went away and sold all he had and bought it.

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

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.

Peter began to say to Him, “Look, we have left everything and followed You.”

“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

And when they had brought their boats ashore, they left everything and followed Him.