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Quotes About Forsake

How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
~ Jonathan Edwards
When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
~ Pliny (the Elder)
The mosquitos were gone from the porch, and surely when they abandoned the conflict the war with Time was really done, there was nothing for it but that humans also forsake the battleground.
~ Ray Bradbury
All hope abandon, ye who enter in!
~ Joseph Conrad
I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock around a brilliant one. It is but fair to say that, after getting out in the world, I had never seen this happen. [From a column dated November 17, 1928]
~ Dorothy Parker
pretending as they waited that time had no value and what a lie. A lie they didn't mind. They were on the clock, being paid to forsake time's value by standing under the sun like they had all day.
~ Rachel Kushner
I shall remain vigilant and unyielding in my pursuit of the enemies of the Coalition. I will defend and maintain the Order of Life as it was proclaim by the Allfathers of the Coalition in the Octus Canon. I will forsake the life I had before so I may perform my duty as long as I am needed. Steadfast, I shall hold my place in the machine and acknowledge my place in the Coalition. I am a Gear.
~ Karen Traviss
The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
~ Matthew Arnold
What is a woman that you forsake herAnd the hearth fire and the home acreTo go with that old grey widow-maker?
~ Rudyard Kipling
To reject the Word of God is forsake the holy grace.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
A man only misfortune is to forsake his Maker.
~ Lailah Gifty, Akita
What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey Widow-maker?
~ Rudyard Kipling
To be present with Him thereafter, men needed only to forsake their sins.
~ Alexander Balmain Bruce
Young then quotes Calvin, "In a word, the Prophet here describes to us the inconceivable carefulness with which God unceasingly watches over our salvation, that we may be fully convinced that he will never forsake us, though we may be afflicted with great and numerous calamities."1
~ Jerry Bridges
My love, my love, do not forsake me. ~Anthea Cross-Thornley
~ Jessica Day George
They wondered why does God forsake some of his children while he so richly blesses others, and not always the most deserving ones at that.
~ Lee Child
And however often circumstances over which I had no control compelled me to forsake abodes that I had furnished with so much solicitude, I never learned my lesson.
~ Lion Feuchtwanger
O I never thought that joys would run away from boys, Or that boys would change their minds and forsake such summer joys; But alack I never dreamed that the world had other toys
~ John Clare
The promise of eternal life makes people forsake the life they're given.
~ James Frey
You're too clever for your creed, my friend. Forsake it.
~ Anne Rice
Wisdom says, "Come, eat of my bread and drink of my wine. Forsake your simple ways, and [you will know what it means to truly] live" (Proverbs 9:5–6).
~ John Hunt
Here may men see how Sin will reap his reward. Beware, for no man knows whom God will smite, nor when, nor in which manner. The worm of conscience will burrow deep within and terrify the wicked soul, though his evil be so secret that no man knows thereof but God and he. For, be he ignorant or learned, he knows not when Death will overtake him. Therefore, I advise you this counsel to take: forsake Sin, or Sin will leave you forsaken.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
The more diverse the people groups who forsake their gods to receive the grace of the true God and follow Christ, the more visible is the superior beauty and power of Christ over all his competitors.
~ John Piper
When you are tempted to forsake God because of the greatness of evil and misery in the world, may you remember that the BIble has prepared us for this temptation.
~ John Piper