To Be Stripped Quotes

#1. Pseudo faith always arranges a way out to serve in case God fails it. Real faith knows only one way and gladly allows itself to be stripped of any second way or makeshift substitutes. For true faith, it is either God or total collapse.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#2. If God allows you to be stripped of the exterior portions of your life, He means for you to cultivate the interior

Oswald Chambers

#3. I am swathed in cant', she thought, 'and it is good for me to be stripped of it.

E. M. Forster

#4. Everyone wants to be clothed but no one wants to be stripped.

Leonard Ravenhill

#5. It is an issue, and whether you get past it now or try to hold out is up to you. Just be aware that when I do finally get my hands on you, you're going to be stripped bare, body and soul.

Kat Black

#6. McCartney's first involvement is to be stripped by Saha

Guy Mowbray

#7. I'm not afraid to have no make-up on and no hair. I just want to be stripped back.

Jessie J.

#8. 'Nip/Tuck' did make me very comfortable in my own skin, no pun intended. I had to be stripped down a lot, and you're kind of in front of the whole world, and it teaches you to accept yourself and be comfortable with yourself real quickly.

Kelly Carlson

#9. If eternity touched you, if all the trappings of time and self were stripped away and you were all soul, if God "happened" to you - then isn't it possible that the experience could not be translated

Christian Wiman

#10. This is what noir is, what it can be when it stops playing nice
blunt force drama stripped down to the bone, then made to dance across the page.

Stephen Graham Jones

#11. I want there to be nothing in me that isn't light and pure and good. But of course that's not real. That's what happens when you're a statue in a city square, stripped of any human adornment that can't be cast in bronze.

Elan Mastai

#12. Grey, just breathe. I love you. Unless you can tell me, without lying, that you dont love me back, then everything's going to be okay ...

Jasinda Wilder

#13. The first right an immigrant is stripped of is the right to be political.

Tania Bruguera

#14. Years go by Will I still be waiting For somebody else to understand Years go by If I'm stripped of my beauty And the orange clouds Raining in head Years go by Will I choke on my tears Till finally there is nothing left One more casualty You know we're too easy Easy Easy

Tori Amos

#15. To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get the response that I got blew any problems I had about self-image out the door.

Melissa Etheridge

#16. To be closed from everything, and yet to feel, to think ... This is the truth of hell, stripped of its gaudy medievalisms. This loss of contact.

Joanne Harris

#17. I believed it was necessary to investigate photography, dismantle it, jettison all the non-essential components, and begin again with a stripped down but more powerful idea of what is, or could be photographic.

Lewis Baltz

#18. Totalitarian states use propaganda to orchestrate historical amnesia, a state-induced stupidity. The object is to make sure the populace does not remember what it means to be free. And once a population does not remember what it means to be free, it does not react when freedom is stripped from it.

Chris Hedges

#19. I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It should not be burdened by excess bureaucracy.

Camille Paglia

#20. Don't." She looks directly into my eyes. After a month of being forced to avoid her, I feel stripped bare by her gaze. "You can be as much of a charming bastard as you want, but you're never going to bullshit your way into my heart again.

Holly Black

#21. I am as vulnerable and fragile as it is possible to be. I am shredded to the core. I am at the point where I am stripped bare.

Rachel Hunter

#22. When the lord says you must 'become as one of these little ones,' I take Him to mean you must be stripped of all the accretions of smugness and pretence and triviality.

Marilynne Robinson

#23. One of the things I wanted to do with 'The Turn' was write a production of songs that could be stripped down to one or two instruments if you chose to do it.

Alison Moyet

#24. I was deprived of the ability to feel so I wouldn't be able to feel how dreadfully vile is that vileness, so I wouldn't retreat from it, wouldn't run horror-stricken from it. Yes, I was stripped of feelings, But not utterly. Whoever did it made a botch of it, Yen.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#25. History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.

Agnes Repplier

#26. The most important thing for me personally is that I can connect with other people through my music. I want my album to be like a trip that people can take with me. My music is like me stripped naked because I open myself up completely.

Chloe Rose Lattanzi

#27. In seasons of hiddenness our sense of value is disrupted, stripped of what "others" affirmed us to be. In this season God intends to give us an unshakable identity in Him, that no amount of adoration nor rejection can alter.

Alicia Britt Chole

#28. Sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me .

Maggie Stiefvater

#29. She was sated and relaxed, which was quickly becoming his favourite look on her. Her sleep y smile wasn't meant to charm or soothe him. It wasn't a mask. This was Lex, stripped of all that bullshit she'd learned in Two. Not trying to be anyone's fantasy.
It made her his.

Kit Rocha

#30. My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip, my toes to numb to step, wait only for my boot heels to be wandering.

Bob Dylan

#31. That's the thing about true love. It can rise from the ashes because at its source, it's indestructible. Layers can be stripped away and lost, but if you're lucky enough to find them again and put them back together, the end result is stronger than ever.

Penelope Ward

#32. Now is not the time to give greater protections to pharmaceutical companies that put unsafe drugs like Vioxx on the market. Such protections have nothing to do with the liability insurance crisis facing doctors and should be stripped from this bill.

Dennis Cardoza

#33. Everything I thought I knew about what it meant to be a man was stripped away. What remained was what it meant to be a man who loved a woman as much as I did. To be a human being experiencing this life in all its ugliness, its beauty, its pain and hate; good and evil; love and death.

Emma Scott

#34. Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.

Susanna Moodie

#35. Since God wishes it - there is nothing to be done ... Why should you thus torment yourself? Get rid of whatever He shows you to be an obstacle to His love, for His only desire is that you should live stripped of all that is not Himself.

Margaret Mary Alacoque

#36. Men must be stripped of arrogance and women must become independent for any mutually nurturing alliance to endure between the sexes.

Erica Jong

#37. Teach me. Lord, my true condition; Bring me childlike to Thy knee; Stripped of every low ambition, Willing to be led by Thee.

Henry Francis Lyte

#38. Stripped of its arrogance, its desire to make off with half of the patrimony and never be seen again, history belongs at the family table. If theology, the older brother, pretends not to need or notice him it will be a sign that he has forgotten, after all, who his father is.

N. T. Wright

#39. I had stripped naked in front of men. Drunk. In morning's somber brightness I tried to remember why I had done it. Total exposure had seemed like the only way to be seen more clearly, heard, but now it seemed the opposite: a wild act that would define me.

Aspen Matis

#40. Sometimes, if a song is written, in essence, to be that stripped down, it's very touchy when you start adding things, because even the smallest thing can have a huge impact. Somebody has to make the decision that there's a better song in there if there's less.

Chris Cornell

#41. Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same things they do. Our lives don't look like they are on the Calvary road, stripped down for sacrificial love, serving others with the sweet assurance that we don't need to be rewarded in this life.

John Piper

#42. The reason Buddhism can be so naturalised is because, stripped of its supernatural elements, its core teachings can be giving a sound, secular philosophical interpretation. In other words, it becomes a religion acceptable to the contemporary, naturalistic mind only when it ceases to be a religion.

Julian Baggini

#43. We were his disposable things. Brought to him like cattle. Stripped of what made us sisters or daughters or children. There was nothing that he could take from us - our genes, our bones, our wombs - that would ever satisfy him. There was no other way that we would be free.

Lauren DeStefano

#44. How can there be love without a true choice? Would you suggest that man be stripped of the capacity to love?

Ted Dekker

#45. The one power a man has that cannot be stripped from him is the power to do nothing.

Morgan Llywelyn

#46. I die with the dying light, yet shine brighter as the darkness approaches. Soon I'll be whittled to bone and stripped clean through, nothing left but a skeleton on which to hang a hat. But have no fear, I look good in hats.

Chila Woychik

#47. I will be able to love above all discontentment.
To give even when I am stripped of everything.
To dry tears even when I am still crying.
To believe even when I am discredited.

Paulo Coelho

#48. But if they stripped all those labels off, people might be shocked to find a normal girl beneath. Who doesn't want to spend her days on the defensive. Who wants what everyone else wants. To be loved.

Kim Harrington

#49. What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine, ... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God, himself immortal; ... would that be a life to disregard?

Plato

#50. When you have stripped yourself bare like the trees in the fall season you will be standing totally barren with nothing to hide

GS. Subbu

#51. So there was this unlicensed brothel down in sector 18. We went thinking we'd be hauling fifteen, twenty people in. More, maybe. Got there, and the place was stripped to the stone,

James S.A. Corey