Quotes About Neglect

He had come to life for maybe a minute to try to tell us something, something none of us cared to listen or understand, and the effort had drained him dry.

Magick is not a supernatural power granted by spirits or demons. True magick is a natural power which exists in every person, and we have neglected it because of misguided principles.

All my weak days have a common cause - I have neglected communion with God through my neglect of the Scriptures & prayer. When will I learn?

Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.

Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.

Prayer is to the Christian what breath is to life, yet no duty of the Christian is so neglected.

The neglect of prayer is a grand hindrance to holiness.

What is the cause of most backslidings? I believe, as a general rule, one of the chief causes is neglect of private prayer.

Nothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect.

If you focus all of your emotional passion on your children and you neglect the relationship that brought that family into existence... eventually, things can go really, really wrong.

This is an example of applying an exceptionalistic solution to a universalistic problem. It is not accurate to say that lead poisoning results from the actions of individual neglectful mothers. Rather, lead poisoning is a social phenomenon supported by a number of social mechanisms, one of the most tragic by-products of the systematic toleration of slum housing.

O! my oblivion is a very Antony,And I am all forgotten.

And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weedThat rots itself in ease on Lethe wharf.

He was but as the cuckoo is in June,Heard, not regarded.

Self-loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self-neglecting.

Society has parted man from man, neglectful of the universal heart.

Jesus, we forgot the goddamn ape!

Like some overcrowded party, no-one had noticed her arrival, and no-one would notice if she left.

Above all other blessings, O God, for ourselves, and our fellow-creatures, we implore Thee to quicken our sense of Thy mercy in the redemption of the world, of the value of that holy religion in which we have been brought up, that we may not, by our own neglect, throw away the salvation Thou hast given us, nor be Christians only in name. Hear us, Almighty God, for His sake who has redeemed us. Amen. —JANE AUSTEN (1775

The roof leaked and the toilet flushed with the kind of diminished enthusiasm that often precedes serious septic difficulties. She

If a drug dealer falls in West Baltimore and no one is there to hear him, does he make a sound?

Non-alcoholic ways in which parents may not 'be there' for the children can include: - violence and sexual abuse - workholism - gambling - transquilliser addiction- - womanizing - frequent journeys abroad - death - suicide - being unemployed or unemployable - frequent hospitalisation - mental or physical handicap - excessive religiosity - rigid rules and regulations - homes where children are never allowed to be themselves but must always be pleasing to adults

Zoe also knew her stepmother did not love her. Or even like her very much. In truth, Zoe was pretty sure her stepmother hated her. Sheila treated her at worst as an irritant, at best as if she were invisible.

The boy would be lavished with presents upon arrival – a new train set, a model plane or a knight's suit of armour. But with nobody to play with Tom would get bored quickly. All he really wanted was to spend time with Mum and Dad, but time was the one thing they never ever gave him. "No. Mother and Father are abroad,