Words matter. These are the best Forsake Quotes from famous people such as Saint Augustine, Elijah Parish Lovejoy, Ma Jian, T. S. Eliot, Tony Campolo, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
It is the easiest thing in the world to become a Christian – ten thousand times easier than it is to hold out unrepenting against the motives which God presents to the mind, to induce it to forsake its evil thoughts and turn unto Him.
The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for more material comfort. They live prosperous lives in which any expression of pain is forbidden.
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
My theology is such that the God who loves Israel and will not forsake Israel – which is why I want to see Israel have a secure nation with secure borders – also loves the Palestinians.
When I had a full-time job, I would write dialogue and sketch characters on my commute and during meetings. Now, I forsake showers and regular meals and stay at my desk for hours, taking breaks to drink tea and eat something sweet, usually cake.
If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me then. My barefoot rank is better.
It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
As long as I sit at Henry Clay’s desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement.
We liberals do sometimes forsake our vows of compassion for all mankind.
I don’t have to forsake my career as a musician. I know how to write songs – that’s not going to leave me. But I think it’s good to explore some other avenues.
You can propose marriage naked or in handcuffs, but no one is going to agree to forsake all others for a man in shorts. You can’t declare war in shorts or deliver a eulogy in shorts.
Sometimes when we have so much going on, it’s easy to forsake the things that seem like personal luxuries – for example, our morning run. But it isn’t a luxury at all, when it is the thing that allows us and empowers us to face everything else.
Man’s mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.
If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!
If you desire ease, forsake learning.
No matter how many flaws we have, our God is so forgiving and understanding. He’ll never leave you or forsake you. So that brings peace to me.
How sweet it is to learn the Savior’s love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!
We have a God who loves us. We are in the palm of his hand. He doesn’t leave us, and He doesn’t forsake us.
As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
