Forsaking Quotes
28 quotes by 26 authors
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A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking
— Helen Steiner Rice
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Certainly amongst all devotions, after that of receiving the sacraments, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament holds first place, is most pleasing to…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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To a Mistress Dying Lover. YOUR beauty, ripe and calm and fresh As eastern summers are, Must now, forsaking time and flesh, Add light to…
— William Davenant
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All the holy words you read and all the holy words you speak are as nothing if you do not act upon them. Even if…
— Gautama Buddha
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I haven't got a great jazz band and I don't want one. Some of the critics, Down Beat's among them, point their fingers at us…
— Glenn Miller
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What is discipleship? It is primarily obedience to the Savior. Discipleship includes many things. It is chastity. It is tithing. It is family home evening.…
— James E. Faust
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The message of this season that is applicable throughout the year lies not in the receiving of earthly presents and treasures but in the forsaking…
— James E. Faust
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The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.
— Honore de Balzac
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If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of…
— Johan Huizinga
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In a society where rationality has ruled so long, the church frequently fails to see that in forsaking the weekly pursuit of the transcendent, we…
— James MacDonald
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Do not travel to other dusty lands, forsaking your own sitting place; if you cannot find the truth where you are now, you will never…
— Dogen
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The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it, America…
— Harry Browne
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A whole new generation of Christians has come up believing that it is possible to 'accept' Christ without forsaking the world.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America -- as far as we…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Christ did not enchant men; He demanded that they believe in Him: except on one occasion, the Transfiguration. For a brief while, Peter, James, and…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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We are vulnerable to fear only when we leave the present. If I drift into the past, my regrets surge up, my memories of failing…
— Jan Phillips
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All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What is the essence of evil? It is forsaking a living fountain for broken cisterns. God gets derision and we get death. They are one:…
— John Piper
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So many vows … they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding. Your life for…
— George R. R. Martin
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there's no forsaking what you love no existential leap as witnessed here in time and blood a thousand kisses deep
— Leonard Cohen
Who Wrote These Forsaking Quotes
26 authors contributed a total of 28 Forsaking Quotes, led by these top contributors: