Quotes About Clinging To God

#1. Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.

John Ortberg

#2. While a little faith may bring your souls to heaven, a lot of faith
clinging to God despite your circumstances
will bring heaven to your soul

Skip Heitzig

#3. In essence I find that the foundation of modern conservatism is driven by a clinging to God in fear of the world, whereas the foundation of modern liberalism is a clinging to the world in fear of God; albeit, the true foundation should be one's clinging to God in fear of God.

Criss Jami

#4. If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.

Alan W. Watts

#5. That little bird has chosen his shelter. Above it are the stars and the deep heaven of worlds. Yet he is rocking himself to sleep without caring for tomorrow's lodging, calmly clinging to his little twig, and leaving God to think for him.

Martin Luther

#6. Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.

Ambrose Bierce

#7. Nephi taught that by clinging to the word of God, as though it be a handrail, we would be able to avoid temptations and not lose our way in darkness. Thus, we would remain on the narrow path.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#8. He looked at the walls,
Awed at the heights
His people had achieved
And for a moment -- just a moment --
All that lay behind him
Passed from view.

Herbert Mason

#9. We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.

T.D. Jakes

#10. But when you continue clinging to your feelings of guilt, this God-given mission becomes nothing more than self-imposed penance.

Karen Witemeyer

#11. I consider it rational to not tell them the truth.

M.F. Moonzajer

#12. Our clinging to the opinions of others reveals how superficial we are. We have little to stand on. We have to be kept alive by adulation and praise. Those who are deeply rooted in the love of God can enjoy human praise without being attached to it.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#13. Safety, stability
it's an illusion. It's a false god, Simon. It's like clinging to a sinking raft instead of learning to swim.

Rainbow Rowell

#14. i feel the spring breeze ruffling
the new-hatched damp of my unfurling
feathers; i see with eyes bleary from egg-dark
the shell clinging sticky to my screaming
beak.

Beth Morey

#15. This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people,

John Connolly

#16. Perhaps this rebirth from one thing to another happens repeatedly in a lifetime. Maybe life is a series of little deaths and rebirths, of passages and rites of passage, of God teaching you to stop clinging to one thing so you can reach for another.

Lisa Wingate

#17. Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.

William Ames

#18. The only way the kingdom of God is going to be manifest in this world before Christ comes is if we manifest it by the way we live as citizens of heaven and subjects of the King.

R.C. Sproul

#19. Or should you mourn the rapist, which I guess Christians mourn the people who kill them too.

Nikolas Schreck

#20. Seemed to notice touching as much as I did. If they grabbed

C.L.Stone