Sentence examples for renunciation it from inspiring English sources

In the Carmelite convent, set in a city -- Los Angeles -- that epitomizes the opposite of sensory renunciation, it can seem on many days that talking to God is all too much like talking with oneself.

Similar to the path of renunciation, it embraces the idea that your "source" is limitless and eternal -- a wellspring of boundless vitality, wisdom and love -- but instead of seeing this "essence" as altogether separate from this world, it perceives its grace as a seamless expression of it.

The brothers' brave willingness to take great risks for peace seemed to justify, in a way that traditional piety no longer could, a lifelong vow of celibacy and the radical renunciations it entailed.

That's not quite a total renunciation, is it?

By E. J. Kahn The New Yorker, October 14, 1950 P. 23 The circumstances under which Gary Davis may regain his citizenship seem to us pathetically ignoble for a man whose renunciation of it was based on such high & universal hopes.

The New Yorker, October 14, 1950 P. 23 The circumstances under which Gary Davis may regain his citizenship seem to us pathetically ignoble for a man whose renunciation of it was based on such high & universal hopes.

Israel's withdrawal in 2005 – while retaining total control of ingress and egress and utilities – was not a noble act of renunciation, as it is presented by Israeli PR, but a calculated gambit to deflect pressure from retention of the greater prize of the West Bank.

The petition, on the website lapetition.be, is called "the cultural exception is non-negotiable!" The directors say Europe's cultural diversity must be protected, warning that "the proposed negotiation mandate is a renunciation - it is a capitulation and a breaking-point".

Aquinas accepts the teaching of the Church of his era that no one can rightly be compelled to accept the Christian faith or membership of the Church, but that those who are members can and should be compelled by both ecclesiastical and state law to abstain from any public renunciation of it.

What renunciation would it take?

Afroyim's counsel argued that since "neither the Fourteenth Amendment nor any other provision of the Constitution expressly grants Congress the power to take away [U.S.] citizenship once it has been acquired... the only way [Afroyim] could lose his citizenship was by his own voluntary renunciation of it".