So Kit's dreams and imaginings helped him to something more knightly in his renunciation than in the brief rapturous flash of possession.
The last accents of the terrible renunciation lingered upon the tainted air even after the door had closed, and Cleg Kelly was an outcast.
This conflict, inherent in mediaeval Christianity, was in part a struggle between temporal desires which many men approved, and their renunciation for eternal joy.
The rejection of England's proposals as to trade, and the exaction of the Renunciation Act, betray a condition of opinion which at any moment might have produced open discord.
England adhered with absolute fidelity to her renunciationof the right to legislate for Ireland.
The Jew is born into it and cannot extricate himself from it even by the renunciation of his faith, which would but render him an apostate Jew.
It thus rejects on principle monastic renunciation and isolation, pointing to the Scriptural verse, "He who formed the earth created it not a waste; He formed it to be inhabited.
On the contrary, that ascetic spirit which encourages self-mortification and rigid renunciation of all pleasure is declared sinful.
His power of self renunciation is one which in Slavophilic thought gives him true liberty.
And following its teaching, he journeyed through self-renunciation to freedom and communal life, after repentance for his wanderings, expiation and regeneration.
Let it now be seen what your endeavors in the path of renunciation can reveal.
Not any forensic act of faith in atoning blood, but ingrained piety a modestrenunciation before the reality of things is the grand gateway of souls to the blessedness and repose of God.
The true use of renunciation is as a means for larger fulfillment.
She said, that this renunciationwould give you no pain.
He heard from his brother, that Lord Delamere, repenting of his renunciation of Emmeline, was coming to St. Alpin, when illness stopped him at Besancon.
At the same time I am most anxious that this great renunciation should be widely spoken of.
He adored his sister, a sweet woman made for love and motherhood but who had chosen the virgin life of renunciation that she might help the world.
And yet it is just in this renunciation of self that I truly gain myself, or realize the highest possibilities of my own nature.
It keeps us from our real good, rather; and renunciation and despair of it are our first step in the direction of the truth.
Were these terms taken in their full literal sense, they imply a total renunciation of limitations to monarchy, and of all privileges in the subject, independent of the will of the sovereign.
His breach of the treaty of Paris was in essence a renunciation of the empire of Elba; and the reassumption of that of France was so far from being admitted by the allies, that he was declared an outlaw by the Congress at Vienna.
It was perfectly obvious, that the abdication of Napoleon, and his perpetual renunciation of the supreme authority, was a condition, and the most important condition, on which the allies had granted peace to France.
God is incapable of such renunciation and subservience.
And so what was an austere monologue becomes dialogue, reluctance becomes docility, renunciation passes into peace, and the sense of painful defeat is lost in the sense of recovered liberty.
Its providential purpose is no doubt to lead one to that true renunciation of which charity is the sign and symbol.
It is a long while now since this has been plain to me, and since this religious renunciation has been sweet and familiar to me.
From the standpoint of complete personal renunciation I watch the passage of my impressions, my dreams, thoughts, and memories.
The cold renunciation of disillusioned reason brings no real peace.
This renunciation beforehand of all natural ambitions, this systematic putting aside of all longings and all desires, has perhaps been false in idea; it has been too like a foolish, self-inflicted mutilation.
Renunciation and acquiescence are less difficult to me than to others, for I desire nothing.
Contemplation which has not the courage to be purely contemplative, renunciation which does not renounce completely, chronic contradiction--there is your case.
Jesus had called men and women to a giant undertaking, to the renunciation of self, to the new birth into the kingdom of love.
Much has been written in a sentimental vein of this retirement, this renunciation of the world by this tired majestic Titan, world-weary, seeking in an austere solitude his peace with God.
November 9th the Kaiser was compelled by the revolutionists to abdicate, and the crown prince signed a renunciation of his right to the succession.
Renunciation of the treaties of Brest-Litovsk and Bucharest.
As Bousset[25] points out, notrenunciation but joy in life is the characteristic thing in Jesus' outlook.
Renunciation is inculcated not for its own sake, but always as a means to fuller realisation.
Earth was filled with a black sorrow, and life henceforth meant renunciation and one long struggle to hide his trouble from the world.
The terrible deed of self-renunciation was over, and familiar faces actually were smiling upon her and wishing her joy.
When the step of her renunciation was first taken, ardent to devote herself to them in every moment of the day, she began to give their lessons to Doda and to Benji.
Rosalie, come to her children and her Harry and her home, to the thought of her renunciation and of her happiness constantly was turning for the enormous exhilaration of happiness that there she found.
The renunciation that brimmed her happiness on the first day was available to her in no bigger dose on the succeeding days, the hundredth day and the three hundredth and the five hundredth.
It was observed, too, that his look rested more especially upon Mrs. Dixon, with a mingled expression of renunciation and inquiry.
