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Quotes About Cleaving

15. Therefore to believe in God, is in believing to cleave to God, to lean on God, to rest in God as in our all-sufficient life and salvation. Deut. 30, 20. by cleaving to him, for he is thy life.
~ William Ames
Indifferent and bright as a slaughterhouse knife, he passed by, cleaving them all into two slices which came noiselessly together again, though emitting a slight scent of hopelessness which no one divulged.
~ Jean Genet
God created us with sexual passion so that there would be language to describe what it means to cleave to him in love and what it means to turn away from him to others.
~ John Piper
God created us with sexual passion so that there would be language to describe what it means to cleave to him in love and what it means to turn away from him to others.
~ John Piper
The mind swims laps, memory is cantilevered over genetic turmoil, and the writing goes on as if from unseen instruction, silencing, cleaving, and destabilizing words and thoughts, while the "hum" in me, the human, pushes fragments into the semblance of story.
~ Gretel Ehrlich