Quotes About Abandonment

the Iraqi government had an army with 350,000 soldiers on which it had spent $41.6 billion in the three years since 2011. But this force melted away without significant resistance. Discarded uniforms and equipment were found strewn along the roads leading

Jesus understood the great significance of images. He intentionally selected an image that would brilliantly convey himself and his message: the cross. The cross represents the lostness of man, as well as the sacrifice of God and the abandonment to God that brings redemption.

believe our only hope for leaders to increasingly work in the way of Jesus, for the glory of Jesus, in the power of Jesus and under the direction of Jesus will be as they have passed through stages that help them learn the soul work of surrender, abandonment, contentment and participation. There simply are no shortcuts.

1) they move against us: attack; (2) they move away from us: abandonment; (3) they move toward us: love. In the context of a sinful, fallen world, our emotional responses to these relational movements can generally be characterized as fight or flight. The following diagram shows how these responses give rise to our difficult emotions.

I understand that she was very unhappy, and maybe she was so devastated by her mother's death that she couldn't stand to face it. But who just abandons their family in that way? What kind of person decides that they can throw everything away and reinvent themselves? As if you could just discard the parts of your life that you didn't want anymore.

I made no more resistance to him, but let him do just what he pleased, and as often as he pleased; and thus I finished my own destruction at once, for from this day, being forsaken of my virtue and my modesty, I had nothing of value left to recommend me, either to God's blessing or man's assistance.

when, indeed, one would have thought the very city itself was running out of the gates, and that there would be nobody left behind,—you may be sure from that hour all trade, except such as related to immediate subsistence, was, as it were, at a full stop.

What does it mean? Where does something like this come from? How can you find it again,just what you wanted at just the right time? Never,probably. It's empty and nothing now, I don't even know why I kept it, and I'll keep it no more.

On the sidewalk, a discarded refrigerator with its face ripped off, and on the curb an old mattress with wire intestines hanging out of its belly.

You have to really imagine that a person's quest, in a larger sense, gently reconnects the emotional and physical circuits that were left in abandonment or that never had the opportunity to become developed.

"A despairing man should have the devotion of his friends, even though he forsakes the fear of the Almighty."

Fake friends are like autumn leaves, they're scattered everywhere.

The worst feeling is to be ignored once, then twice, then again and again by someone you consider precious.

In order to be free, we must learn how to let go.

Learn the difference between a person that would have never given up on you and a person you pushed away.

No, this is throwing up like coming off the tilt-a-whirl at age seven, like discovering that dead rat under the porch, like finding out someone you loved never loved you at all.

... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully.

One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.

I'm an old broken down piece of meat and I deserve to be all alone . . .

I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.

You were so busy trying to be my savior that you left me all alone.

I am nothing. I'm like someone who's been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything.

Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said.

Because of their enmity you will be left alone. They will cast you out and forsake you.