Abandon Quotes
By choosing comfort we are in the very same decision choosing to miss every great thing in life, and that thought should be anything but comforting.
The paralyzing fear of being lost is fed solely by the irrational fear that we will never be found.
To seek the praise of men as our motivation is to abandon truly great things, for more often than not truly great things elicit the ire of men far more than they garner their praises.
There’s not much that I can find in places where there is nothing to find. However, to avoid facing God I find myself spending a lot of time in those very places.
Every gesture and every look he gives me takes me by surprise and causes my heart to stutter.
I grab the nearest lamppost when my knees threaten to give out, panting for breath as the words rip through me
When we step onto the bridge, Nathan turns and spreads his arms out wide. ‘Welcome to Pont des Arts, a.k.a. The Lock Bridge.
I head in the direction of the Eiffel Tower when I exit the alley, relieved to be out of the dark.
The impact of music is so great that you'll leave your book and start dancing.
When men and women who God has created to make a difference in the world, abandon the mandate for their lives and instead, begin to pursue all nonentities of life, God cannot but be frustrated
If your children know who God is they will know who they are, regardless of where you or they call home.
Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings –
To abandon the child ‘within’ means that the adult ‘without’ will be an adult in name only. And frankly, I can only name a handful of things that are that tragic.
Loss is the uninvited door that extends us an unexpected invitation to unimaginable possibilities.
If economies collapse and lawlessness rules and resources are scarce, many people who claim with their mouths that they follow Jesus... will abandon him with their lives.
With God, being lost is nothing more than an idea that never has and never will be anything more than an idea.
The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I’m going to be disappointed.
Those who make hostility a daily manner are often left in the lurch at difficult times.
To abandon all is to take our hearts, place them before the One who created them, and dare to believe He can live life powerfully through our surrendered lives.
Any work is always improvable, you cannot really finish the work, you can only abandon it out of tiredness or incompetence.
To simply survive appears to be the choice of the plodding hoards that wander all around me. Therefore, I’ve adamantly committed to never hoard hoards.
In the midst of our worried searching we recklessly abandon the treasures that life has bestowed upon us in the mad hunt for that which we wish to bestow upon ourselves.
