Sentence examples for renounce everything from inspiring English sources

But Edward did not renounce everything.

Kant condemns such attempts at "weakening and removing all the body's sensuality, to renounce everything that its sensuous enjoyment promotes, so that thereby the animal nature of the body would be suppressed" as contrary to proper care for the body; such care requires discipline, but also "involves trying to promote its vigor, activity, strength, and courage"(C 27 379 80).

Narendra gradually grew ready to renounce everything for the sake of realising God, and accepted Ramakrishna as his Guru.

Look at the man in the mirror and ask him these questions; and when the man has spoken, renounce everything to follow his calling.

The speaker asks the men to say, in unison, "I swear to renounce everything up to the seventh generation and the entire criminal association recognized by me until now in order to safeguard the honor of my wise brothers".

Without rootedness in another, better way (The Way), we easily become fools thinking that we can have our cake and eat it too, overlooking that God calls us to renounce everything in order to follow him.

On Monday, Mr. Metzner said the photographer had renounced everything that was promised to him as part of the legal accord.

A self-aggrandizing German scholar named Bilger, "horrified at the idea that he could be associated with any kind of Orientalism, immediately began an embarrassed auto-criticism, renouncing everything".

Think of Macon Leary in The Accidental Tourist, reluctant to step out of his front door; Ian Bedloe in Saint Maybe, who spends 20 years atoning for a teenage mistake, renouncing everything from sex to sugar; and poor old Ezra, who spends his life trying to get his family to finish one meal together.

Surrounded by about 20 other people (including a man who is supposedly a reincarnation of Buddha, Dorje Shugden) at a colourful spring festival in Manchester, UK, he shaved his head, donned his new maroon-and-yellow robes, and officially renounced everything he previously believed in and all of his worldly possessions.

Note that all the authors honored in this list are themselves obsessives: men prepared to devote any amount of time and intellectual industry, and to renounce almost everything, in the exhausting bid to wrestle the world into words, leaving us to revere the result and to inquire how much was entailed in the sacrifice.