Quotes about Renunciation
War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
- AA Milne
Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience
- Thomas a Kempis
The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.
- Johannes Tauler
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
Oh! it is sweet to be thus weaned from friends, and from myself, and dead to the present world, that so I may live wholly to and upon the blessed God!
- David Brainerd
Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God.
- Johannes Tauler