Quotes about Detachment
If you yourself do not cut the lines that tie you to the dock, God will have to use a storm to sever them and to send you out to sea.
— Oswald Chambers
External detachment is often an actual indication of a secret, growing, inner attachment to the things we stay away from externally.
— Oswald Chambers
Reasoning as a limited cognitive function, detached from the personal center, never could create courage. One cannot remove anxiety by arguing it away.
— Paul Tillich
When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
— Proverbs 23:5
Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone!
— Hosea 4:17
Let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve anything from his house.
— Matthew 24:17
And let no one in the field return for his cloak.
— Matthew 24:18
Let no one on the housetop go back inside to retrieve anything from his house.
— Mark 13:15
“Take nothing for the journey,” He told them, “no staff, no bag, no bread, no money, no second tunic.
— Luke 9:3
Carry no purse or bag or sandals. Do not greet anyone along the road.
— Luke 10:4
and told him, ‘Leave your country and your kindred and go to the land I will show you.’
— Acts 7:3
I care very little, however, if I am judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.
— 1 Corinthians 4:3