Sentence examples similar to terms of renunciation from inspiring English sources

The term has acquired a popular and frequently secular use to describe some sort of renunciation or giving up of something valuable in order that something more valuable might be obtained; e.g., parents make sacrifices for their children, one sacrifices a limb for one's country.

In this centum of verses, where each ends with the term "Chandrachudamani" as another name of the god Shiva, the author treats on viragya (ethics of renunciation).

In its narrow sense, the term is applied only to those for whom the unmarried state is the result of a sacred vow, act of renunciation, or religious conviction.

There was what one historian called a "renunciation of renunciation".

I am learning the art of renunciation.

It also has a politics of renunciation.

Hers is the virile glamour of renunciation.

The movie ends with a surprising act of renunciation.

"Both required an act of faith, of renunciation, disaffection".

I was infatuated with the idea of renunciation.

The strategy of renunciation and the absorbing of suffering was meant to guard against all that.