Quotes About Straying

I thought of walks in the English countryside, where people start shouting at you as soon as you stray from the footpath.

I won't criticise anyone else's statements, and the public will make up their own minds. And if the public think that any side or any individual has strayed too far away from what's expected of public representatives, then they'll make that judgement.

15.30 The Master said, "Having gone astray, to fail to get right back on track is to stray indeed.

Was it just that? She was to be content to weave a steady life with him, all one fabric, but perhaps brocaded with the occasional flower of an adventure. But how could she know what she would feel next year? How could one ever know? How could one say Yes? for years and years? The little yes, gone on a breath! Why should one be pinned down by that butterfly word? Of course it had to flutter away and be gone, to be followed by other yes's and no's! Like the straying of butterflies.

I teach straying from me, yet who can stray from me? I follow you whoever you are from the present hour, My words itch at your ears till you understand them.

We're straying from the path of salvation because we remember that we once belonged to the world and were content in that belonging.

The man who goes quickly by the direct road passes the man who strays from the path.

Whenever thou feelest that thy feet are becoming entangled in the interlaced roots of life, know that thou has strayed from the path to which I beckon thee: for I have placed thee in broad, smooth paths, which are strewn with flowers. I have put a light before thee, which thou canst follow and thus run without stumbling. KRISHNA. I

You can drift into sin, but not into righteousness.

The damage love does when love goes astray. And did it ever, given half a chance, fail to wander?

Is there any place we're not moving through? Disoriented, lost, at sea, at odds, astray, adrift, bewildered, confused, uprooted, turned around. I'm related to these related terms. These words are my abode, my only foothold.

The person who goes astray from God's wise guidance burdens himself with sorrows and frustrations. In fact, he ends up being a slave to his own desires.

From the window, above the clatter of pots and the slamming of cabinets, Francis was singing, as though it was the happiest song in the world: 'We are the little black sheep who have gone astray . . . Baa baa baa . . . Gentlemen songsters off on a spree . . . Doomed from here to eternity . . .

È difficile cucire armoniosamente assieme la responsabilità di un gregge amato da difendere e la giusta misura nel riprendere le pecore smarrite lungo la strada, traviate dall'intelletto, da cattive letture e insane deduzioni.

Time punishes those who stray from the path of dharma. Console yourself with the belief that this is the will of God.

When he strays from straddling the mane of weeds, brambles rake his painted sides.

Associate with companions who are in harmony with the Dharma and who don't promote disturbing emotions. Keeping company with unwholesome friends, you cannot possibly avoid being influenced by their evil ways. That is the root of going astray...

The master replied: Tsogyal, the empty essence of your awareness is not created by anyone. Without causes and conditions, it is originally present. Don't try to change or alter awareness. Let it remain exactly as it is! Thus you will be free from straying and awaken within the state of primordial purity.

Regarding the straying of the dwelling place, it is generally taught that in order to perfect ultimate realization of the view someone who has a temporary realization of it should go to a secluded open area, such as a mountain retreat or a charnel ground. You may temporarily possess the view, but in order to sustain it, you must stay in mountain hermitages. An unwholesome dwelling place may indeed cause your view to go astray.

You rebuke the arrogant—the cursed who stray from Your commandments.

I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.

Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against Me! Though I would redeem them, they speak lies against Me.

Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ëTheir hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.í