Sentence examples for self-renunciation from inspiring English sources

They proceed from "external" to "internal" worship and adore the Goddess mentally, offering their hearts as her throne and their self-renunciation as "flowers".

Under a variety of names over the years, including Human Individual Metamorphosis, Bo and Peep, and Total Overcomers Anonymous, the group advocated extreme self-renunciation to the point of castration.

To produce this unnatural self-renunciation, "the whole power of education is required" (SL 4.5).

The term κένωσις refers to a gesture of self-emptying or self-renunciation in order to achieve an ethos of servitude.

Gandhi's practice of self-renunciation (brahmacharya) including his vow of poverty and his fasts were closely tied to his commitment to ahimsa.

Gandhi based his commitment to nonviolence on a spiritual foundation that emphasized self-renunciation (brahmacharya) and the positive action of the force of love or force of truth that he called satyagraha.

Returning to America, Mitchell is filled with self-loathing: "His dreaminess, his swooning — his intelligent stupidity — were responsible for everything that was idiotic about him, for his fantasy of marrying Madeleine and for the self-renunciations that hedged against the fantasy's not coming true".

Fundamentalism can even be associated with a self-sacrificial renunciation of material pleasures; even suicide is sanctioned if it will further the fundamentalist goal.

One thing is clear: as a Swiss-German, Frisch is savagely satirising his own society, with its belief in self-control, renunciation and what Martin calls "the madhouse of order".

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, the hit-making Seattle rap duo, opened the show with "Thrift Shop," their self-congratulatory renunciation of hip-hop opulence.

Another means of rejecting the social order, which forms the background for significant portions of Hindu belief and practice, is renunciation (self-denial and asceticism).