Behind and within all its reflections runs the counsel of self-renunciation.

Viewed in a certain light, it would be an act of noble self-renunciation.

The essential philosophy of the group was based upon a belief in self-renunciation, hard work, tolerance, and peace.

Critics remain divided on the issue both of Maggie's self-renunciation and of her death.

They desired to lose themselves in ecstatic self-renunciation.

In addition to self-sacrifice, self-renunciation was also an imperative quality to Japanese woman, and in many cases still is.

Christianity adopted the Stoic form but introduced self-renunciation.

Prayer, with all it contains of self-renunciation, has become your real life, which you keep up as though only for the sake of prayer.

Feeling their lives are "irredeemably spoiled" and believing there is no hope for advancement or satisfaction as an individual, true believers seek "self-renunciation."

They are followers, not because of a desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy their passion for self-renunciation!

Their manner of self-renunciation has three elements corresponding to the three evangelical counsels: poverty, chastity and obedience.

Only the crucified can quicken in Russia's people the self-renunciation any nation needs if only because self-renunciation is life's open secret.

In response, the Lenten fast and practices of self-renunciation were required annually of all Christians, both to show solidarity with the catechumens, and for their own spiritual benefit.

Christianity has fallen into disrepute, probably because of the Self-Renunciation it demands,--for, in this age, the primal object of each individual is manifestly to serve Self only.

A mass move- ment attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.

She grew up in the post-Victorian era that was still dominated by such romantic and patriarchal ideals as Ruskin's woman educated to be "wise, not for self-development but for self-renunciation."

Given this conscious awareness, this degree of self-renunciation, this will to anarchy' and equality, individuals are in a unique position to bring about positive social change of a wholly beneficial nature.

Lalich had previously published her Ph.D. dissertation on "Bounded Choice: The Fusion of Personal Freedom and Self-Renunciation in Two Transcendent Groups."

It's the attitude we take when we become so taken by pagan beauty so as to feel that other-world, especially its call for self-renunciation and for a perspective beyond the present moment, is repugnant and dehumanizing.

It is a long commentary or sermon on the Temptation of Christ in the wilderness, and in it Achard discusses seven degrees of self-renunciation, which he calls the seven deserts of the soul.

Still, the fact remains that a practical concern cannot endure unless it can ap- peal to and satisfy self-interest, while the vigor and growth of a rising mass movement depend on its capacity to evoke and satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.

The Christian's ideal is love of God and his neighbor, self-renunciation in order to serve God and his neighbour; carnal love, marriage, means serving oneself, and therefore is, in any case, a hindrance in the service of God and men"."

Our tenderness and self-renunciation seem strong when our egoism has had its day--when, after our mean striving for a triumph that is to be another's loss, the triumph comes suddenly, and we shudder at it, because it is held out by the chill hand of death.

In fact, Mrs. Eddy's desire to restore bodily healing to a central place in Christianity, far from a doctrine of childish faith or positive thinking, was only part of a larger call to seek redemption from sinfulness and the illusion of material life through constant prayer and self-renunciation.

But as Korda persuasively puts it, this policy of self-renunciation was consistent with his childhood image of himself as someone out of Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur (a book that he would take into battle); a deliberate mimicry of a crusader knight doing penance in a herb garden.