Forsake Quotes

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

John Calvin

Believe, Men, Idols

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My prayer today is that we will feel the loving arms of God wrapped around us, and will know in our hearts that He will never forsake us as we trust in Him.

Billy Graham

God, Christian, Religious

FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Sep 09, 2011

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If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!

Matthew Simpson

Jesus, Joy, Earth

Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

Marcel Proust

Real, People, Different

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When we ignore the prostituted child, we actually lend our hand to their abuse. When we ignore the widow and the orphan in their distress, we actually add to their pain. When we ignore the slave who remains captive, it's us who is entrapping them. When we forget the refugee, it's actually us who is displacing them. When we choose not to help the poor and the needy, we actually rob them. Perhaps the only fair thing to say is that when we forsake the lives of others, we actually forsake our own.

Joel Houston

Pain, Children, Hands

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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

Saint Augustine

Philosophical, Sins Not, Forsaken

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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

T. S. Eliot

Men, Age, World

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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

George Eliot

Wisdom, Simple, Compassion

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1272, Wordsworth Editions

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Satan's aim is to destroy our joy and trust and delight in God, and to make God look worthless in the world's eyes. Everytime someone forsakes God for the world, gets angry at God when part of the world is taken away from them, they highlight the world as valuable... and everytime someone stays with God, when the world is taken away, and praises God, they highlight the value and glory of God.

John Piper

Faith, Religious, Taken

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It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.

Harry Browne

War, Firsts, Truth Is

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Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!"

Madeleine L'Engle

Easter, Christ On The Cross, Answers

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.88, Open Road Media

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The Bible is full of God's promises to provide for us spiritually and materially, to never forsake us, to give us peace in times of difficult circumstances, to cause all circumstances to work together for our good, and finally to bring us safely home to glory. Not one of those promises is dependent upon our performance. They are all dependent on the grace of God given to us through Jesus Christ.

Jerry Bridges

Jesus, Home, Giving

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As a man falls out of favour and his wealth declines, we discover for the first time the ridiculous aspects of his character, which were always there but which wealth and favour had concealed.

Jean de la Bruyere

Men, Favors, Riches

"Of Worldly Goods". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?

Jonathan Edwards

Forever, Neglect, Ifs

Jonathan Edwards (2013). “A Journey Toward Heaven: A Daily Devotional from the Sermons of Jonathan Edwards”, Reformation Heritage Books

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Thomas a Kempis

Love, Friendship, Suffering

St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume”, p.1596, Moody Publishers

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A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to get up, is strongest when he is weakest, richest when he is poorest, and happiest when he feels worst. He dies so he can live, forsakes in order to have, gives away so he can keep, sees the invisible, hears the inaudible, and knows that which passes knowledge.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Christian, Real, Order

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True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.

Jonathan Edwards

Christian, Indifference, Foe

Jonathan Edwards, James Macintosh Houston (2004). “Faith Beyond Feelings: Discerning the Heart of True Spirituality”, p.171, David C Cook

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Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, Life, Happiness

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The Lord will never forsake or abandon anyone, You may abandon him, but he will not abandon you. You never need to feel that you are alone.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Needs, May, Lord

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A whole new generation of Christians has come up believing that it is possible to 'accept' Christ without forsaking the world.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Christian, Believe, Generations

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If you please man and never please God, you have nothing; if you please God and man forsakes you, you have everything.

Dorothy Kelley Patterson

Men, Please, Ifs

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When we accept our own wild beauty, it is put into perspective, and we are no longer poignantly aware of it anymore, but neither would we forsake it or disclaim it either. Does a wolf know how beautiful she is when she leaps? Does a feline know what beautiful shapes she makes when she sits? Is a bird awed by the sound it hears when it snaps open its wings? Learning from them, we just act in our own true way and do not draw back from or hide our natural beauty. Like the creatures, we just are, and it is right.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Beautiful, Wild Beauty, Wings

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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.

Alexandre Dumas

Flower, Tree

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Do not forsake prayer, for just as the body becomes weak when it is deprived of food, so also the soul when it is deprived of prayer draws nigh to weakness and noetic death.

Gennadius of Constantinople

Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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Let my inspiration flow, in token lines suggesting rhythm, that will not forsake me, till my tale is told and done.

Robert Hunter

Inspiration, Done, Lines

"Song: "Lady With a Fan"". 1977.

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