Quotes about Departure

I imagine Lent for you and for me as a great departure from the greedy, anxious antineighborliness of our economy, a great departure from our exclusionary politics that fears the other, a great departure from self-indulgent consumerism that devours creation. And then an arrival in a new neighborhood, because it is a gift to be simple, it is a gift to be free; it is a gift to come down where we ought to be.

If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.

The departure of the church-going element had induced a more humanitarian atmosphere.

I go; but feed my sheep; for Me the Sabbath at the long week's close--for you the task; for you the tongues of fire. Thus shalt thou know the Master Architect, who plans so well, He may depart and leave the work to others.

Man must endure his going hence.

Men always have their reasons. But the fact is that they always wind up leaving.

Sin is essentially a departure from God.

Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Tho' her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all alive, Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.