His doctrine may be summed up in a word: he teaches self-renunciation.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference

Viewed in a certain light, it would be an act of noble self-renunciation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exodus From The Long Sun]

He feels the calm of self-renunciation, but united with no monkish indolence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843] Reference

Divine glory, and with a depth of self-renunciation on the part of the writers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

The way of sorrows, the way of pain, the way of self-renunciation, the way of My cross.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-03-01] Reference

It does really disturb me that material self-renunciation has become part of the image of "the left".    From Wordnik.com.  [Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2008 – September – 13] Reference

It does really disturb me that material self-renunciation has become part of the image of “the left”.    From Wordnik.com.  [On class consciousness] Reference

Joan was not more selfish than the young generally are; she had hours of noble self-renunciation and generosity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shield of Silence] Reference

The terrible deed of self-renunciation was over, and familiar faces actually were smiling upon her and wishing her joy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marcia Schuyler] Reference

The little mermaid is doomed, but she ultimately finds redemption in her self-renunciation, and comes to a better place.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Mermaid] Reference

Perhaps the labor and patience and self-renunciation that are necessary to the regeneration of the world are to come from women.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885] Reference

So with Lizzy: life had taught her; and the one bitter truth of self-renunciation she had wrung out of it must tell itself somehow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863] Reference

The ideal of giving, of enriching, in fine, of self-renunciation in response to the highest call of humanity is the other and complementary ideal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches] Reference

And following its teaching, he journeyed through self-renunciation to freedom and communal life, after repentance for his wanderings, expiation and regeneration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference

Let none take this noble work in hand without a desire to give, in its degree, the best work that can be given in absolute self-renunciation, humility, and reverence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 353, October 2, 1886.] Reference

In it, as Sudana, he fulfilled “the Perfections,” his distinguishing attribute being entire self-renunciation and alms-giving, so that in the Nidana Katha is made to say.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms] Reference

I tried to escape from my love by self-renunciation, and tried to devise a joy in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cossacks] Reference

Do we help him, unseen, towards that act of charity, humiliation, or self-renunciation?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gold Dust A Collection of Golden Counsels for the Sanctification of Daily Life] Reference

It delights in the garb of humility, and finds its food in the profession of self-renunciation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humanity in the City] Reference

Was it wrong of the woman to perform this act of self-renunciation, yielding up all things to love?.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Roads Lead to Calvary] Reference

In the eyes of modernity, the very concept of self-renunciation appears as a form of psychopathology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commonweal Magazine] Reference

"But I would die"; and in the deep self-renunciation of the hero who, in heartbreaking anguish, prayed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism] Reference

He felt it was shame to him that he could not rise at once to the height of her splendid self-renunciation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman Who Did] Reference

Today they are ceremonial, with works of charity, self-renunciation or religious mendicancy generally added.    From Wordnik.com.  [India's Problem, Krishna or Christ] Reference

Our tenderness and self-renunciation seem strong when our egoism has had its day -- when, after our mean striving for.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lifted Veil] Reference

Yet, in spite of all that such a vocation meant of self-renunciation, year after year the Mission Priests increased in number.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of St. Vincent de Paul] Reference

For it bound us all together, hand in hand; it taught us endurance, self-dependence, and, best of all lessons, self-renunciation.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Halifax, Gentleman] Reference

The Hebrews may have written a book that teaches, of all others, self-renunciation, but the way they taught it was self-assertion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Art of Reading] Reference

He half believed it himself; at least, he remembered the nobility of the mother's self-renunciation and its effect upon the two men.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Ward of the Golden Gate] Reference