Quotes about Withdrawal
I heard a man of brilliance cry out that God has withdrawn from nations when they have turned from Him, and surely we are astiff-necked people; why should He not withdraw? But then I remember Jonah accusing God of overlenience, of foolishness, mercy, and compassion. We desperately need the foolishness of God. (233)
— Madeleine L'Engle
The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it.
— Ronald Reagan
Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.
— Woodrow Wilson
Tell yourself right now and throughout today, that it's okay to draw away from the maddening crowd. Jesus did; so can you.
— Charles Swindoll
Though it was not right, and never can be, we understand what went on in the heart of those who sought escape from the world, in cell or hermitage, for the sake of unbroken fellowship with God. It might have been efficacious, if in withdrawing from the world they had been able to leave the world behind. But we carry it in our heart. Wherever we go it goes with us.
— Abraham Kuyper
The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul. The position men have given to Jesus, now for many centuries of history, is a position of authority. It characterizes themselves. It cannot alter the eternal facts.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The withdrawal of the king from the narrative exposes the king as an irrelevance. The one with all the power can do nothing to save. Because it is only "my God who saves.
— Walter Brueggemann
Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system of Pharaoh, the refusal to let one's life be defined by production and consumption and the endless pursuit of private well-being.
— Walter Brueggemann
The refunding of the national debt at a lower rate of interest should be accomplished without compelling the withdrawal of the national-bank notes, and thus disturbing the business of the country.
— James A. Garfield
A schizophrenic is a person who already has a natural tendency to absent himself from this world.
— Paulo Coelho
My soul is disconsolate when God is withdrawn.
— David Brainerd