The acquiescence in indefinite ideas for the sake of comforted emotions, and the abnegation of strong convictions in order to make room for free and plenteous effusion, have for us all the marks of a too familiar reality.
To pass on to less sinister forms of this abnegation of intellectual responsibility.
The utter abnegation of will, both of tone and look, as she cast an appealing glance at her companion, struck Dr.
I could not help being struck with the utter abnegation of will she displayed.
What the money was for he did not know, except that it was somehow connected with an act of abnegation in which he had vaguely encouraged her.
Thereby he thinks he is teaching the highest degree of resignation to God’s inscrutable will; thereby the highest step on the ladder of self-abnegation has been attained.
At that time Luther showed great preference for the exhortations of the German mystics on self-abasement, apathy and abnegation of self.
Speaking of the gifts of the three kings he says: “the pure and choice myrrh is the abnegation with which we must be ready to return to absolute nothingness, to the state before creation; every longing for God is there relinquished (!
However often a man in mind, she always remained a woman in heart; and her personalabnegation was neither feigned nor studied.
Her religious abnegation grew perfect; her peace deepened; her active benevolence broadened; her spirit, always genially tolerant, acquired a mellower ripeness.
The true lesson of these charming stories is, that an inexhaustible self-abnegation and obedience forms the most heavenly trait and power of human nature.
Self-abasement creaked out of my boots, self-reproach fluttered out of my brains, self-abnegation beat out of my heart.
Brethren, we shall not be 'great in the sight of the Lord' unless we copy that example of utter self-abnegation before Jesus Christ.
The abnegation enjoined does not require that we should be indifferent to our own well-being.
Lastly, observe the final element of greatness in this man-absolute humility of self-abnegation before Jesus Christ.
Just as our Village freedom is a protest against, unhealthy suppression and rigidity, so these fevers of self-abnegation are inevitable uprushings of protest against animalism.
It is endurance, and self-abnegation in the interest of all.
It is singular enough, too, to hear sentiments of such sublime self-abnegation quoted in support even of Spoliation; and yet to this tends all this pompous show of disinterestedness!
But in such a sentiment it is the man, the Christian, who manifests himself, and who by a praiseworthy abnegationof self, takes that point of view of the question, which belongs to the consumer.
That which comes by laborious effort and self-abnegation remains with us, and constitutes a lasting capital.
If abnegation has indeed so many charms for you, why do you fail to practise it in private life?
How does it come to pass that your pretended friends, who hold forth to you on the goodness, the generosity, and the self-abnegation of capitalists, never cease condoling with you on your being deprived of your political rights?
And, after all, see how little foundation your journalists have for attributing self-abnegation to the monopolists.
By a noble abnegation of self', the physician places himself in the consumer's point of view.
About one o'clock in the morning the Wachusett was surreptitiously got under way, and her commander, with utter abnegation of his word of honor, ran into the Florida, discharging his battery and boarding her.
In all these operations there conspicuously appears the self-abnegation of a devoted patriot.
This Pope carried abnegation of his family so far as to make relationship an excuse for not rewarding one who had served the Church well.
As the elect of the people he owes not only the example of willing obedience, but also of fidelity and industry in the discharge of his exalted office, with an absolute abnegation of all self-seeking.
Self-abnegation and austerity were now to take the place of pleasant frivolities and fashionable amusements.
A most graphic description of one of these scenes of public abasement and abnegation is given by Governor John Winthrop in his History of New England.
For his self-abnegation he has been honored in story and verse; honored more in his time of penance than in the many positions of trust and dignity bestowed on him by his fellow-citizens.
The English have not understood and cannot understand the self-abnegation of our Emperor who wants nothing for himself, but only desires the good of mankind.
She did not think of applying submission and self-abnegation to her own life, for she was accustomed to seek other joys, but she understood and loved in another those previously incomprehensible virtues.
An Epicurean might find in this abnegation of the cares of life a sound practical philosophy.
