renunciation

• But a renunciation which is more than silent resignation, and which under certain circumstances can also become a joyful renunciation of all that was beloved and dear to man on earth, does not grow out of the soil of naturalism, and is possible only there where man carries in himself a possession which would render him still more fortunate and happy than the idea of species, and where he knows the cross of Jesus, and understands the word of the Lord: "He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that loseth his life for my sake, shall find it." —  The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
• [243] The irrevocability of this renunciation was impressed upon the Swedish witches in a very dramatic manner: 'The Devil gave them a Purse, wherein there were shavings of Clocks with a Stone tied to it, which they threw into the water, and then were forced to speak these words: As these Shavings of the Clock do never return to the Clock from which they are taken, so may my Soul never return to Heaven._'[244 The vows to the new God were as explicit as the renunciation of the old. —  The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology
• Par exemple_--on the heels of my great renunciation, the first thing I want to do is a portrait of Major Desmond for my dear Honor,--if I may If you may! —  The Great Amulet
• The believer who looks to another world to redress the wrongs and horrors of this; the sage who warns us that the law of life is resignation, renunciation, and doing-without (_entbehren sollst du_)--each of these has a foothold in common language. —  Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5, Emerson
• What other community has produced pioneers combining to such a degree the essential qualities of audacity, of consecration, of tenacity, of self-renunciation, and unstinted devotion, that have prompted them to abandon their homes, and forsake their all, and scatter over the surface of the globe, and hoist in its uttermost corners the triumphant banner of Bahá’u’lláh? —  The Advent of Divine Justice

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