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In religion, giving something up, an element of almost every ethical system. Buddhism is based on renunciation of personal desires and Hinduism seeks eventually, after many lifetimes, the abandonment of ties to the physical world. In Christianity the idea of renunciation was most pronounced in medieval asceticism.

The spirit of true Christian renunciation is the recognition that everything belongs to God.



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One was the renunciation of his old life, of his utterly useless education.
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But he had not moral courage enough to contemplate that active renunciation of Nancy as possible for him: he had only conscience and heart enough to make him for ever uneasy under the weakness that forbade the renunciation.
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Is not renunciation the beginning and the end of wisdom?
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