Forsake Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• 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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• If I had the stars from the darkest night and the diamonds from the deepest ocean, I'd forsake them all for your sweet kiss, for that's all I'm wishin' to be ownin'.

  Bob Dylan

  Romantic, Sweet, Stars

  Song: Boots of Spanish Leather, Album: The Times They Are A-Changin', 1964

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• Courage that grows from constitution very often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it, and when it is only a kind of instinct in the Soul breaks out on all occasions without judgment or discretion. That courage which proceeds from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Offending, Soul

  Joseph Addison (1721). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq”, p.193

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• Any church which forsakes the regular and uniform for the periodical and spasmodic service of God, is doomed to decay; any church which relies for its spiritual strength and growth entirely upon seasons of "revival," will very soon have no genuine revivals to rely on. Our holy God will not conform His blessings to man's moods and moral caprice. If a church is declining, it may require a "revival" to restore it; but what need was there of its declining?

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Spiritual, Blessing, Men

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 149, 1895.

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• If Israel falls to the terrorists, the entire free world will tremble. To forsake Israel now would be tantamount to forsaking Great Britain in 1940. It is unthinkable, and it is unthinkable because the world wants to know if we believe freedom is worth fighting for.

  Tom DeLay

  Believe, Fall, Fighting

  "DeLay makes intense appeal for Jewish voters" by Tom Curry, www.nbcnews.com. September 1, 2004.

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• Patience is the capacity to endure all that is necessary in attaining a desired end. ... Patience never forsakes the ultimate goal because the road is hard. There can be no patience without an object.

  Margaret Kennedy

  Patience, Goal, Ends

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• It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.

  Ovid

  Firsts, Prudence, Wretched

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