Quotes about Renunciation

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

In the same way, any one of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be My disciple.

“Look,” said Peter, “we have left all we had to follow You.”

Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not practice deceit, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by open proclamation of the truth, we commend ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.

For a moment, he thought: I could give up magic for her, but immediately realized how foolish that thought was. Love didn't require that kind of renunciation. True love allowed each person to follow their own path, knowing that they would never lose touch with their Soul Mate.

The sanyasa of the Gita is all work and yet no work.

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

O Lord, self-renunciation is not the work of one day, nor children's sport; yea, rather in this word is included all perfection.

Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go & it will be yours forever.

With Jesus, if we want to gain, we must give up. If we want to be filled, we must deny ourselves. If we want to truly get close to God, we'll have to distance ourselves from other things. If we want to conquer our cravings, we'll have to redirect them to God.

Having forsaken all things, a man should forsake himself.