self-renouncement

Catholic practice -- to slacken or modify the harshness of that life of self-renouncement, solitude, unpopularity, to which he had vowed himself for years -- to conceal from her the more startling and difficult of his convictions.

Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II Humphry Ward 1885

Give me their health, and there is no spiritual experience of those earlier years -- no resolve of duty, or work of mercy, no work of self-renouncement, no solemnity of thought, no joy in the life and aspects of nature -- that would not still be mine; and this without the least reference or regard to any purely personal reward or punishment looming in the future.

Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856

There is a want of sympathy, tenderness, meekness, reverence, submission of will, self-renouncement: sometimes there is a tone which is even selfish, imperious, heartless, or worldly.

Sermons. Volume the Second. 1808-1892 1848

Even in the most sacred things, and in the holiest actions, and with the precepts of self-renouncement in their mouths, there is a some thing, not so much as a word, but a tone, a look, an air, which expresses in full the presence and consciousness of a will not dead to its own choice.

Sermons. Volume the Second. 1808-1892 1848

And yet in the midst of all, by secret self-denial and self-renouncement, they have lived a life of personal poverty in the presence of luxury and splendour.

Sermons. Volume the Second. 1808-1892 1848

If by that time you have not forsaken Him, you will be nearer still, walking in strange, it may be solitary paths, in ways that are "called desert;" but knowing Him, as now you know Him not, with a fulness of knowledge, and a bowing of heart, and a holy self-renouncement, and a joy that you are altogether His.

Sermons. [Vol. I.] 1808-1892 1843

The world not only has no power to conform them to itself, but it becomes a sort of counter-pressure, which forces them to take shelter in a secret life of self-renouncement.

Sermons. [Vol. I.] 1808-1892 1843

After this profession had been made at my altar, the prince wisely decided that the man should dress differently than other laymen as a sign of his self-renouncement and as a reminder to him that he had a superior to whom he had to submit.

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After this profession had been made at my altar, the prince wisely decided that the man should dress differently than other laymen as a sign of his self-renouncement and as a reminder to him that he had a superior to whom he had to submit.

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After this profession had been made at my altar, the prince wisely decided that the man should dress differently than other laymen as a sign of his self-renouncement and as a reminder to him that he had a superior to whom he had to submit.

WN.com - Articles related to PPD and Microsoft to Deliver Innovative REMS Solution Based on Microsoft Technologies 2010