Abandonment Quote by Michio Kushi

The sadistic narcissist perceives himself as Godlike, ruthless and devoid of scruples, capricious and unfathomable, emotion-less and non-sexual, omniscient, omnipotent and omni-present, a plague,…

— Sam Vaknin

There exists an infinite, eternal Being, subsisting of himself, who is one without being alone; for he finds in his own essence relations whence,…

— Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

“God does not suffer out of deficiency of being, like created beings. To this extent he is 'apathetic'. But he suffers from the love…

— Jürgen Moltmann

He that despairs degrades the Deity, and seems to intimate that He is insufficient, or not just to His word; and in vain hath…

— Owen Feltham

He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord - including darkness, dryness, flatness - and completely disregard self is he who…

— Watchman Nee

“The more severely he struggles to hold on to the primal face-to-face relation with God, the more tenuous this becomes, until in the end…

— William Barrett

A man who recognizes no God is probably placing an inordinate value on himself.

— Robertson Davies

In the present age, man proves his separation from his Creator by his spirit of self-sufficienc y and positive rejection of God. The present…

— Lewis Sperry Chafer

“Saddest of all God’s creatures in the world is the religious person who has disciplined himself to outward obedience but who has no inward…

— Walter Chantry

He in whose mind is no anger, hatred, or envy, who never loses his balance, dies, or is born, who is he but God?

— Swami Vivekananda

“We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and morality. We wrongly believe that…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

He who thinks all mankind is vile is a pessimist who mistakes his introspection for observation; he looks into his own heart and thinks…

— William George Jordan