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Quotes About Straying

We as humans are so imperfect. We are always looking for something more and always going astray from Jesus. Whether you believe in him or not, but he is always there with open arms. God never abandons you. He is always waiting for you to come back and when you do, you won't be scolded - you will be embraced.
~ Matty Mullins
Ah, clear they see and true they say That one shall weep, and one shall stray
~ Dorothy Parker
Where no paths exist, a man strays only when he misses his destination. There is no crime, no transgression, no sin save foolishness or incompetence, and no obscenity save the tyranny of custom.
~ R. Scott Bakker
As a poet, he is both the firm teacher trying to guide us and the mild one inviting us to develop on our own, a paradox captured in lines like "I teach straying from me, yet who can stray from me?" or "He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
~ David S. Reynolds
Jesus did not use hell to try and compel heathens and pagans to believe in God, so they wouldn't burn when they die. He talked about hell to very religious people to warn them about the consequences of straying from their God-given calling and identity to show the world God's love.
~ Rob Bell
Jesus did not use hell to try and compel "heathens" and "pagans" to believe in God, so they wouldn't burn when they die. He talked about hell to very religious people to warn them about the consequences of straying from their God-given calling and identity to show the world God's love.
~ Rob Bell
la iglesia ha dejado de tomar su guía de las Escrituras y se ha desviado a las consultorías de mercadeo y emplean tácticas de negocios del mundo.
~ Jeffrey D. Johnson
One of the most damning indictments of mankind is found in Isaiah 53:6: "We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way" (Niv). Going our own way is the very essence, the very core, of sin. Your way may be to give money to charity; another person's way may be to rob a bank. But neither is done with reference to God; both of you have gone your own way.
~ Jerry Bridges
Once we strayed because marriage was not supposed to deliver love and passion. Today we stray because marriage fails to deliver the love, passion, and undivided attention it promised.
~ Esther Perel
But in a culture that mandates individual fulfillment and lures us with the promise of being happier, never have we been more tempted to stray. Perhaps this is why we condemn infidelity more than ever even as we practice it more than ever.
~ Esther Perel
Los malentendidos y la pereza quizá causan más extravíos en este mundo que la astucia y la perversidad. Al menos, estas dos últimas cosas ciertamente que son más raras
~ Johann Wolfgang Goethe
All we like sheep have gone astray.
~ Anonymous
It was the straying that found the path direct.
~ Austin Osman Spare
Night, you who gather in your lovely lap The things the shining dawn flung far and wide, The ewe-lamb you bring back, the straying goat, The child you lead unto its mothers side.
~ Sappho
group of people who had received the gospel but had then succumbed to a dilution of it so that they had departed from the basic Christian
~ John N. Oswalt
Whereas all beings have their place in nature, man remains a metaphysically straying creature, lost in Life, a stranger to the Creation.
~ Emil M. Cioran
I know women whose entire personas are woven from a benign mediocrity. Their lives are a list of shortcomings: the unappreciative boyfriend, the extra ten pounds, the dismissive boss, the conniving sister, the straying husband.
~ Gillian Flynn
El alma humana tiene una gran necesidad de blancura. Desde que lo blanco se oscurece, la desdicha empieza. La práctica y conciencia de todas las virtudes, la posesión de las mejores cualidades, la arrogancia de los más nobles sacrificios no bastan a consolar el alma de un solo extravío.
~ Jose Marti
Love and meekness, lord, Become a churchman better than ambition: Win straying souls with modesty again, Cast none away.
~ William Shakespeare
Tan Suang U," he said with a slow smile, "many a boy has strayed in the season of his youth and returned home to make his parents proud. I do not think that your Weng Kim is a bad boy.
~ Botan
I, for one, shall speak about those obstinate Greeks, who are with us and against us, united in faith and divided in peace, though in truth their faith may stray from the straight path.
~ St. Bernard of Clairvaux
Apostate, still thou err'st, nor end wilt find Offering, from the paths of truth remote.
~ John Milton
It is the aimless who find the wrong roads, and drive down them, simply because they have nowhere else to go.
~ Michael Marshall Smith
Thoughts roamed like lost dogs through
~ Kjell Eriksson