Quotes about Abandonment
Most of mankind's misery stems from feeling unloved. In the midst of adverse circumstances, people tend to feel that love has been withdrawn and they have been forsaken. This feeling of abandonment is often worse than the adversity itself.
— Sarah Young
God has not abandoned us any more than he abandoned Job. He never abandons anyone on whom he has set his love; nor does Christ, the good shepherd, ever lose track of his sheep.
— JI Packer
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
— Graham Greene
we handed him back his province and left our allies to be crucified and sawn in two. They were innocent. They thought we'd stay. But we were liberals and we didn't want a bad conscience.
— Graham Greene
Because they no longer wanted to retain God in their minds and lives, Paul informed us in Romans 1:28 that "God gave them over.
— Rick Renner
Six days a week the spirit is alone, disregarded, forsaken, forgotten.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one's community back from the path of sin.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Nothing can be more cruel than that leniency which abandons others to their sin.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
He thought a little about the company that he would like to have. No, he thought, when everything you do, you do too long, and do too late, you can't expect to find the people still there. The people all are gone.
— Ernest Hemingway
Spiritual power comes out of inward fellowship with God and abandonment to his purposes.
— E Stanley Jones
The bruises hurt him, the cuts were still bleeding; but it was not for pain that he sobbed ; it was because he was all alone, because he had been driven out, alone, into this skeleton world of rocks and moonlight.
— Aldous Huxley
Failure has no friends.
— John F. Kennedy