Top 30 Quotes About God Abandoning You
#1. The foundation of self-confidence, the basis of boldness and self-assertion, is a deep inner trust, based on living a life of perfect integrity, and disciplining yourself to live consistent with your highest values in every situation.
Brian Tracy
#2. Only god has the privilege of abandoning us. Men can only drop us
Emil M. Cioran
#3. The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.
Joan D. Chittister
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. You either forgive a lover for abandoning you or you forgive God for taking them - either way you have to forgive ...
John Geddes
#8. Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
E. O. Wilson
#9. 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
#10. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#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. The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without first taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.
Tony Robbins
#16. It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'
Frank Gaffney
#17. 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
#18. Jealousy is an evil which grows in the womb of ego and is nourished by selfishness and attachment.
Swami Rama
#20. 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
#21. 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.
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up.
Jillian Michaels
#25. Trying to resolve family issues and abandoning God will not resolve the issues
Sunday Adelaja
#26. The director is a Canadian, Jeff Stephenson, and any time I get a script that has any Canadian component, I'm always immediately much more interested.
Kathleen Robertson
#29. 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
#30. I was horrified of the dark. I realized that the only way I could get over that fear was by scaring other people, so I became obsessed with ghost stories, drawing monsters, watching monster movies, sneaking into horror movies, and it's just been the love of my life forever.
Matthew Gray Gubler
