Quotes About Drifting From God

#1. A nation aimlessly drifting away from God is a nation for which prayer is a rudder and praise is a sail. And it is the man or woman on their knees that builds the former and gives wind to the latter.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#2. As a child, when I first heard the story of Creation, I'd closed my eyes and pictured the earth as a ball rolling off the palm of God and into dark space, then drifting around until it found its home in sunny orbit. Never perfect, but ever spinning, and holding on to her course, despite it all.

Ann Howard Creel

#3. I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.

David Hockney

#4. I'm in the strange position of the world drifting away from me, but you know what? I'm actually quite content with that. It doesn't bother me in the slightest. I don't feel like, 'Oh God, I'm being left behind.'

Robert Smith

#5. Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.

Elfriede Jelinek

#6. We don't realize how much the NFL is quietly drifting towards flag football. During the '80s, part of the defense's goal was to put the fear of God into offensive players ... that's fading away.

Bill Simmons

#7. Instead of drifting away from God, you'll be firmly anchored, able to swim against the tide, offering living water to all you meet.

Craig Groeschel

#8. What, for some, is sin, others do to the glory of God. And the good Dr. Pentecost's remarks notwithstanding , I intend to go home tonight and smoke a cigar to the glory of God. It is a kind of incense drifting to Heaven.

Charles Spurgeon

#9. People call me a 'model-actress,' when I just never started with that ... it's not my story.

Astrid Berges-Frisbey

#10. Children are the anchors of a mother's life. - SOPHOCLES, Phaedra, fragment 612

Jodi Picoult

#11. For me photography had an immediacy ... I was trying to resolve certain issues. What was fair or unfair about how people lived, and how they had to live? I thought the most penetrating and most immediate way to get to some of those questions was through photography.

Jerome Liebling

#12. History must speak for itself. A historian is content if he has been able to shed more light.

William L. Shirer

#13. A callous disregard for the claims of innocent human life is the heart and soul of the evil of terrorism.

Alan Keyes

#14. Fresh and clarifying, cool and refreshing, Lucite Green has a minty glow. Light in weight and also in tone, Lucite Green seems almost transparent.

Leatrice Eiseman

#15. It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and Congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the burden. Meantime, I seem to have been drifting into criticism myself. But that is nothing. At the worst, criticism is nothing more than a crime, and I am not unused to that.

Mark Twain

#16. What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.

Seth Lloyd

#17. He took a sip of my father's weak coffee and spit it back into the mug. "This shit's like making love in a canoe."
"Excuse me?"
"It's fucking near water.

David Sedaris

#18. Both instances, sweet. Also stupid, which pretty much defined Evan: sweet and stupid.

Sarah Beth Durst

#19. We love repose of mind so well, that we are arrested by anything which has even the appearance of truth; and so we fall asleep on clouds.

Joseph Joubert

#20. As long as you're in an environment where the worth of the project isn't based on the project but what its predecessors did, it's not truly inclusive.

Ava DuVernay

#21. Faith is a thing of the mind. If you do not believe that God is in control and has formed you for a purpose, then you will flounder on the high seas of purposelessness, drowning in the currents and drifting further into nothingness.

Ravi Zacharias

#22. The sand doesn't care if you're made of flesh or stone.

Joaquin Lowe