Orphan Quotes

178 quotes by 149 authors

I always questioned if I was CALLED to adopt, but then I realized no child was ever CALLED to be an orphan. — David Platt
Orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names; but once you know, everything changes. — David Platt
Can we who have had the joy of knowing that we are not orphans, that we have a Father, be indifferent to this city which… — Pope Francis
When we adoptâ€”and when we encourage a culture of adoption in our churches and communitiesâ€”weâ€™re picturing something thatâ€™s true about our God. We, like Jesus,… — Russell D. Moore
If I lose show business - I'll really be an orphan! — Red Buttons
The unfortunate are not as miserable as the world imagines. That urchins, the handicapped, orphans, prisoners and others are much happier than people think. And… — Manu Joseph
Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of… — R. Scott Bakker
And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he… — Homer
To me, my husband was my son's murderer. He was also my daughter's molester. A parasite nibbling on the Holy Book, he was Lucifer, holding… — Tehmina Durrani
An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Not everyone can be an orphan. — Andre Gide
We come crawling through these cracks, orphans, lobotomies; if you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything. Whole rotten world come… — Kathy Acker
These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation, — Chris Christie
When you're in your twenties in a new city where no one's from here, we're all sort of orphans. The only people that you can… — Dave Eggers
For me Oliver Twist is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who were forced to… — Henning Mankell
The white man's God cannot love our people or He would protect them. They seem to be orphans who can look nowhere for help. How… — Chief Seattle
If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in… — Marguerite Young
They tell about a fifteen-year-old boy in an orphans' home who had an incurable stutter. One Sunday the minister was detained and the boy volunteered… — Bennett Cerf
If only 7 percent of the 2 billion Christians in the world would care for a single orphan in distress, there would effectively be no… — Steven Curtis Chapman
I did nothing to deserve God's love; in fact, I was living as an orphan, without hope. Yet God chose to pursue a relationship with… — Steven Curtis Chapman

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