Quotes About Estrangement

definitely not best friends

When we become lost in this process, we miss out on our crucial emotional need to experience a sense of belonging. We live in permanent estrangement oscillating between the extremes of too good for others or too unlikeable to be included. This is the excruciating social perfectionism of the Janus-faced critic: others are too flawed to love and we are too defective to be lovable.

And Gileadís wife bore him sons who grew up, drove Jephthah out, and said to him, “You shall have no inheritance in our fatherís house, because you are the son of another woman.”

The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.

I have become a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my motherís sons,

so that I may take hold of the hearts of the people of Israel. For because of their idols, they are all estranged from Me.í