Quotes About Abandoning God

#1. Trying to resolve family issues and abandoning God will not resolve the issues

Sunday Adelaja

#2. The conspiracy theory of society . . . comes from abandoning God and then asking: "Who is in his place?" - Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations, London, Routledge,

Umberto Eco

#3. Well, when we made 'Tron' there was no internet, no cellphones.

Jeff Bridges

#4. Our democracy is predicated on the belief that our government should be accessible by the people. We cannot allow ourselves to give in to fear or shy away from interacting with the public.

Erik Paulsen

#5. We can't fathom what God has in store for us when He makes all creation new. Believe it by faith and share with those who still doubt that they, too, can be perfected in Heaven by turning to Christ and abandoning their unobtainable satisfaction on earth.

Billy Graham

#6. I would love to work with the artisans and take it to another dimension, the same way I did in Haiti.

Donna Karan

#7. You did not carry yourself
away from pain
to become pain itself.

Ijeoma Umebinyuo

#8. Many people criticize those who long to experience more in God, but I don't trust the ones who don't. We are not going to be kept free from deception by abandoning experience. In fact, the ones who do not hunger more for God are already deceived.

Bill Johnson

#9. The key to liberation from the power of materialism is not an exodus from culture - abandoning Wall Street or leaving the wealth of the nation to others - but the grace of giving ... Givers for God disarm the power of money. They invite God's grace to flow through them.

R. Kent Hughes

#10. He's God ... and his grace is a part of him working relentlessly on our behalf ... never leaving, never abandoning, never stopping.

Carl Prude Jr.

#11. It was then that she realized she still had God. He was the only one who hadn't left her. He knew who she was, even if she didn't. A single tear formed in the corner of her eye as she thanked God for not abandoning her - especially when she needed Him most.

J.E.B. Spredemann

#12. Not enough attention is paid to the negative side of fashion. Great effort is exerted to make people look smart, but somebody should face the fact that a lot of people never will be smart, and that they should be given some assistance in maintaining their fascinating dowdiness.

Robertson Davies

#13. People don't show up here (at the courtroom) because they believe evolution is bad science. They show up because they believe that if they accept evolution, then they are abandoning their religious beliefs. They see it as an either/or proposition: Either evolution happened, or God loves you.

Eugenie Scott

#14. The thing about working in Hollywood is that, at some point, you really get tired of hearing how godless you are, and how if you and the rest of the heathens in Tinsel town would put more God-centric shows on TV, people wouldn't be abandoning prime time in favor of their Bible study classes.

John Ridley

#15. In a correction, other people's stocks go down, in a bear market, your stocks go down.

Alan Abelson

#16. Stepping into God's story means abandoning a deeply held desire to make meaning of our own lives on our own terms based on the preciousness of our own feelings.

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

#17. One Corinthians 15, one of Paul's longest sustained discussions and the climax of the whole letter, is about the creator God remaking the creation - not abandoning it, as Platonists of all sorts, including the gnostics, would have wanted.

N. T. Wright

#18. Man will rise, if God by exception lends him a hand; he will rise by abandoning and renouncing his own means, and letting himselfbe raised and uplifted by purely celestial means.

Michel De Montaigne

#19. Bad things happen - wars, plagues, parents abandoning their children, the heartless preying on those with hearts - and no one, not a human or a god, will intervene.

Yiyun Li

#20. You either forgive a lover for abandoning you or you forgive God for taking them - either way you have to forgive ...

John Geddes

#21. In the darkest of nights, there is only one thing on your mind--should I be required to stand before the Almighty, will I find myself in His favor?

Rachel Hauck

#22. The most important factor in abandoning our thoughts is to look in the Bible and see what God says about a matter. Then we must determine to act on His Word rather than on our own thoughts or those the devil may whisper into our minds.

K.P. Yohannan

#23. When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives them back all their personality, and boasts (I am afraid, sincerely) that when they are wholly His they will be more themselves than ever.

C.S. Lewis

#24. I'm blackening pages, but I don't know if it's writing.

Leonard Cohen

#25. The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.

Joan D. Chittister

#26. Only god has the privilege of abandoning us. Men can only drop us

Emil M. Cioran