Top 34 Withholds Quotes
#1. Every relationship either gives energy to us or withholds energy from us, according to what we give to or withhold from it. And it's not only our behavior toward others, but our very thoughts about them, that builds and/ or destroys relationships.
Marianne Williamson
#2. It belonged to the changeless order of things---the man desiring the woman only for what she withholds; the woman worshipping the man for that which she yields up to him. With each concession gained the man's desire cools; with every surrender made the woman's adoration increases...
Frank Norris
#3. Sometimes Allah withholds something from you, not because you don't deserve it, but because you deserve better!
Boonaa Mohammed
#4. Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow.
Anonymous
#5. Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes you then; you cannot govern her. No power on earth can govern a human being, however feeble, who withholds his or her consent.
Emmeline Pankhurst
#6. In other words, all the highest aims of language are decisively the work
of God. They are decisively supernatural. And no amount of poetic
effort or expertise in the use of words can bring about the great aims
of life if God withholds his saving power.
John Piper
#7. The lies one tells always pale in comparison to the truths one withholds.
Jean Zimmerman
#8. All shall work together for good; everything is needful that He sends; nothing can be needful that He withholds.
John Newton
#9. Whether a pretty woman grants or withholds her favors, she always likes to be asked for them.
Richard Steele
#10. But I cannot love her as I did, because she is not open, because she withholds what matters, because she makes me, with her pride or her madness, live a lie.
A.S. Byatt
#11. The most painful love there is, is the love left unshown
A love that cannot be expressed, affection left unknown
The love that withholds touching,afraid of what it would say
And the most painful thing about unexpressed love is..,
it never fades away
Susan Polis Schutz
#12. Sometimes God guides by what He withholds, rather than what He provides.
Craig Groeschel
#13. All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by the addition of that which he withholds from us.
Samuel Johnson
#14. The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#15. God withholds blessing only in wisdom, never in spite or aloofness.
Elisabeth Elliot
#16. It isn't the Lord who withholds himself from us. It is we who withhold ourselves from him because of our failure to keep his commandments.
Harold B. Lee
#17. Everything is needful that he sends; nothing can be needful that he withholds.64
Timothy Keller
#18. If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds what you are not yet ready for. He wants you to have a lively desire for His greatest gifts. All of which is to say, pray always and do not lose heart.
Saint Augustine
#19. There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls.
Horace Mann
#20. Let it go out, the sun's fire, If light dawns inside our souls, In our own hearts we'll discover What the outer world withholds.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#21. Information is key to raising awareness of what our brain withholds from our conscious mind. Unfortunately we are hardwired emotion-driven thinkers. It takes effort and training to exercise introspection and mindfulness.
David Bloor
#22. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void.
Levi-Strauss
#23. We don't need to forgive God. We need to live un-offended with Him. Part of living un-offended at God is agreeing to live without what He withholds.
Trevor Lund
#24. For what God gives I thank indeed; What He withholds I do not need
Martin Luther
#25. Its best, the church administers the sacraments by feeding, healing, forgiving, comforting, and welcoming home the people God loves. At its worst, the church withholds the sacraments in an attempt to lock God in a theology, a list of rules, a doctrinal statement, a building. But our
Rachel Held Evans
#26. Allah is al-Kareem, so if He withholds from you it is not on account of stinginess. It is on account of His generosity. He withholds to give.
Yasmin Mogahed
#27. The ocean extends an invitation to the swimmer that it withholds from the person who has never learned to swim. With every skill we learn, the world reshapes itself to reveal greater possibilities.
Nicholas Carr
#28. A friend is one who withholds judgment no matter how long you have his unanswered letter.
Sophie Irene Loeb
#29. ...and how is a man to know the habits of their God, whether He smites suddenly or withholds, if you mishandle the things set apart, the objects of His people He is jealous of.
David Jones
#30. Perhaps a supreme form of charity may be exhibited by one who withholds judgment of another's acts or conduct, remembering that there is only one who can look into the heart and know the intent-and know the honest desires found therein.
H. Burke Peterson
#32. When He withholds an answer, it is to have us grow through faith in Him, obedience to His commandments, and a willingness to act on truth.
Richard G. Scott
#33. When the human race learns how to give and regive equally each will be enriched. He who withholds that which he should give to another impoverishes both himself and the other.
Walter Russell
#34. Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.
Khalil Gibran