Forsake Quotes - Page 7

• It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Fiction, World

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• Let us this very day begin anew, and now say, with all our hearts, we will forsake our sins and be righteous.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Forgiveness, Heart, Sin

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• As God did not at first choose you because you were high, He will not now forsake you because you are low.

  John Flavel

  God, Religious, Firsts

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• To forsake sin, is to leave it without any thought reserved of returning to it again.

  William Gurnall

  Sin, Reserved

  William Gurnall (1821). “The Christian in Complete Armour: Or, A Treatise on the Saints' War with the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of the Policy, Power, Wickedness, and Stratagems Made Use of by that Enemy of God and His People : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Assisted in Buckling on His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapons, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.373

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• Lord God...use me as Your instrument -- but do not forsake me, for if ever I should be on my own, I would easily wreck it all.

  Martin Luther

  Use, Wrecks, Lord

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• He who forsakes his own community and joins another perishes as the king who embraces an unrighteous path.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Kings, Community

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• Is it not an amazing fact that while others leave us and forsake us, that God never does?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Facts, Doe

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• Those who will repent and forsake sin will find that His merciful arm is outstretched still. Those who listen to and heed His words and the words of His chosen servants will find peace and understanding even in the midst of great heartache and sorrow. The result of His sacrifice is to free us from the effects of sin, that all may have guilt erased and feel hope.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Sacrifice, Heartache, Understanding

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• Forsake Alcohol, eat grapes instead!

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Alcohol, Offensive, Grapes

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• If God has given us Himself, if He abides in us and we in Him, according to His own true words, then what will He not give me, what will He spare for me, of what will He deprive me, how can He forsake me? 'The Lord is my shepherd: therefore I lack nothing' (Ps. 23:1).

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Giving, Shepherds

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• We abandon the most important journey of our lives when we abandon desire. We leave our hearts by the side of the road and head off in the direction of fitting in, getting by, being productive, what have you. Whatever we might gain – money, position, the approval of others, or just absence of the discontent self – it’s not worth it.

  John Eldredge

  Country, Kings, Heart

  "The Journey of Desire: Searching for the Life You've Always Dreamed Of".

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• (...) the tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Flower, Fall, Tree

  Alexandre Dumas (2016). “The Count of Monte Cristo”, p.535, Xist Publishing

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• But he found that a traveller's life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments. His feelings are for ever on the stretch; and when he begins to sink into repose, he finds himself obliged to quit that on which he rests in pleasure for something new, which again engages his attention, and which also he forsakes for other novelties.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Pain, Feelings, Attention

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Joseph Pearce (2008). “Frankenstein”, p.155, Ignatius Press

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• Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin as to take them by the hand and to watch over them in tenderness. When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what pow'r it has over my mind.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Kindness, Hands, Lds

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• Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina lowcountry is an almost irreversible antidote to the charms of other landscapes, other alien geographies. You can be moved profoundly by other vistas, by other oceans, by soaring mountain ranges, but you can never be seduced. You can even forsake the lowcountry, renounce it for other climates, but you can never completely escape the sensuous, semitropical pull of Charleston and her marshes.

  Pat Conroy

  Ocean, Mountain Ranges, Sight

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Lords of Discipline: A Novel”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• I am: yet what I am none cares or knows, My friends forsake me like a memory lost; I am the self-consumer of my woes, They rise and vanish in oblivious host, Like shades in love and death's oblivion lost; And yet I am, and live with shadows tost.

  John Clare

  Memories, Self, Shadow

  John Clare (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Clare (Illustrated)”, p.925, Delphi Classics

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• Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

  Richard Dawkins

  Death, Spiritual, Religious

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• I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock around a brilliant one. It is but fair to say that, after getting out in the world, I had never seen this happen." [From a column dated November 17, 1928]

  Dorothy Parker

  Beautiful, Men, Wife

  Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

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• The thing I want to really say is that I still mess up. I still go out there and say things on TV that I know the Lord is like, 'Sherri what are you doing?' but I know I can go back and get on my knees and say, 'Lord forgive me.' I know he will never leave me nor forsake me. The wonderful thing is He answers my prayers in spite of me.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Prayer, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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• Since the notion that we should all forsake attachment to race and/or cultural identity and be “just humans” within the framework of white supremacy has usually meant that subordinate groups must surrender their identities, beliefs, values, and assimilate by adopting the values and beliefs of privileged-class whites, rather than promoting racial harmony this thinking has created a fierce cultural protectionism.

  Bell Hooks

  Thinking, Race, Attachment

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• What i’m saying is, my friends, one ought to be able to let go. If a path does not please us, instead of insisting on going that specific way, of making our selfishness the guide, we ought to forsake. The books we cannot write, the films we cannot shoot, the projects we cannot develop, the jobs we cannot pursue and the people who no longer love us. Being able to let go, at times, is the most beautiful of all!

  Elif Safak

  Beautiful, Letting Go, Jobs

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• The promise of eternal life makes people forsake the life they're given.

  James Frey

  People, Promise, Given

  James Frey (2011). “The Final Testament”, p.149, Hachette UK

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• Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

  Joseph Addison

  Courage, Men, Bravery

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• My parents did love each other. Enough to forsake plans and factions. Enough to defy “faction before blood.” Blood before faction--no, love before faction, always. - Tris Prior

  Veronica Roth

  Blood, Parent, Enough

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• A supreme deity would no more gift us with intellect and expect us to forsake it in moments of bafflement, than He would fashion us eyes to see and bid us shut them to the stars

  Terryl L. Givens

  Fashion, Stars, Eye

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