Abandonment Quotes

154 Abandonment quotes by 144 unique authors

Shall I tell you of their plundering, their covetousness, their abandonment of the poor, their thefts, their cheating in trade? — Saint John Chrysostom
Put you hand before your eyes and remember, you that have walked, the places from which you have walked away, and the wilderness into which… — Hilaire Belloc
[I]n order to raise a soul to the highest perfection, He allows it to pass through dryness, brambles, and combats, causing it thereby to honor… — Vincent de Paul
Christian discipleship does not involve the abandonment of any innocent enjoyment. Any diversion or amusement which we can use so as to receive pleasure and… — Washington Gladden
Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual… — Germaine Greer
It is only when we want to take our lives out of the Fatherâ€™s hands and have them under our own control that we find… — Sinclair B. Ferguson
When you learn to take responsibility for yourselves, then you will start taking responsibility for the planet. The planet is being destroyed by your abandonment… — Leonard Jacobson
Fear keeps us rooted in the past. Fear of the unknown, fear of abandonment, fear of rejection, fear of not having enough, fear of not… — Debbie Ford
Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be gay… — Henry David Thoreau
The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact. — Aldous Huxley
I do not comprehend those rules of conduct that make us so content with self and so cold to those we love. I detest prudence,… — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse
Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a… — David Limbaugh
I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I had to go… — Kenny Loggins
The appeal to force is the abandonment of reason. — Irving Copi
I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my ego… — Frantz Fanon
I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each… — Susan Griffin
I want to live with that sense with the music I make, with the art I make, with the way I love my kids, with… — Steven Curtis Chapman
Experience hobbles progress and leads to abandonment of difficult problems; it encourages the initiated to walk on the shady side of the street in the… — William James Mayo
Newness only becomes mere evil in its totalitarian format, where all the tension between individual and society, that once gave rise to the category of… — Theodor Adorno
It is inner abandonment that leads men to the highest truth. — Henry Suso

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