A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home. — Rumi
You have Jesus and Jesus has you or you are barren and wasted and lost! — Paul Washer
God would rather give up His son..than give up on us — Max Lucado
Have you forgotten God? Even if you have, He has not forgotten you. — Moses
Sometimes I wonder will God ever forgive us for what we've done to each other? Then I look around and I realize God left this place a long time ago. — Leonardo DiCaprio
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Other people are occupied, I alone am unwilling, like the outcast. — Lao Tzu
Child of God, you cost Christ too much for him to forget you. — Charles Spurgeon
his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Love is found in the things we've given up, more than in the things that we have kept. — Rich Mullins
Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea — J. R. R. Tolkien
On the eve of the cross, Jesus made his decision. He would rather go to hell for you than go to heaven without you. — Max Lucado
What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God? — John Donne
Satan conquered Jesus on the Cross and took His spirit to the dark regions of hell — Kenneth Copeland
Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you — Elisabeth Elliot
Short Forsaken Quotes
The principles of true hip-hop have been forsaken,
It's all contractual and about money makin'. — Black Thought
Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven. — J. C. Ryle
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune. — Boethius
Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!" — Madeleine L'Engle
The proud man is forsaken of God. — Plato
Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties! — Matthew Arnold
One by one, like leaves from a tree, / All my faiths have forsaken me. — Sara Teasdale
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it. — Saint Augustine
I am corrupted to the bone with the beauty of this forsaken world. — J. M. Coetzee
When money is taken freedom is forsaken. — Proverbs
Forsaken Image Quotes
Forsaken Love Quotes
All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken. — Thomas Wolfe
Any religious, philosophical or political idea that doesn't lead one towards love ought to be forsaken — Michael Gungor
Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring,
Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing,
Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove,
Say, is not absence death to those who love? — Alexander Pope
Love masters agony; the soul that seemed
Forsaken feels her present God again
And in her Father's arms
Contented dies away. — John Keble
Paul had an almost missionary companion. His name was Demas. Paul wrote his entire history in nine words. He says: Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world. — Sterling W Sill
It's our God forsaken right to be loved, loved, loved. — Jason Mraz
Forsaken Me Quotes
Christ's own 'God-forsaken-ness' on the cross showed me where God is present where God had been present in those nights of deaths in the fire storms in Hamburg and where God would be present in my future whatever may come. — Jürgen Moltmann
There are times when I feel that he has withdrawn from me, and I have often given him cause, but Easter is always the answer to My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me! — Madeleine L'Engle
There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense. — Johan Huizinga
A choir of angels glorified the hour, the vault of heaven was dissolved in fire. "Father, why hast Thou forsaken me? Mother, I beg you, do not weep for me. — Anna Akhmatova
If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation. — Yann Martel
Hey bands, you're all welcome to fly me to some exotic location and I'll record you there, Y'know that right? You don't have to come to this God forsaken place. Hope I can visit you all in Australia one of these days that would be hot! We'll talk again soon. — Jim Diamond
In a social environment that is ever crowded and impersonal, it is becoming increasingly important to reconsider the value of close personal relationships before we are driven to ask the forlorn question, 'Whatever happened to love?' — Desmond Morris
The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Down valleys dreadly desolate; The lonely mountains soar in scorn As still as death, as stern as fate. — Robert W. Service
There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought --a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities! — Mark Twain
Go into the largest livestock operation, search out the darkest and tiniest stall or pen, single out the filthiest, most forlorn little lamb or pig or calf, and that is one of God's creatures you're looking at, morally indistinguishable from your beloved Fluffy or Frisky. — Matthew Scully
Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. — Mark Twain
How can you and I really expect to glide naively through life, as if to say, 'Lord, give me experience, but not grief, not sorrow, not pain, not opposition, not betrayal, and certainly not to be forsaken. Keep from me, Lord, all those experiences which made Thee what Thou art! Then, let me come and dwell with Thee and fully share Thy joy!' — Neal A. Maxwell
Do not say that! How few are the Romans and how numerous are we ! 'An army's strength lies not in numbers of men but in Allah's help, and its weakness lies in being forsaken by Allah — Khalid ibn al-Walid
I am the way into the city of woe.
I am the way to a forsaken people.
I am the way into eternal sorrow.
Sacred justice moved my architect.
I was raised here by divine omnipotence,
Primordial love and ultimate intellect.
Only those elements time cannot wear
Were made before me, and beyond time I stand.
Abandon all hope ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri
I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet. — Isabel Allende
Toil on, son, and do not lose heart or hope. Let nothing you dismay. You are not utterly forsaken. I, too, am here--here in the darkness waiting, here attentive, here approving of your labor and your dream. — Thomas Wolfe
Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful. — Amy Goodman
The foundation of true holiness and true Christian worship is the doctrine of the gospel, what we are to believe. So when Christian doctrine is neglected, forsaken, or corrupted, true holiness and worship will also be neglected, forsaken, and corrupted. — John Owen
Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys. — C. S. Lewis
As God did not at first choose you because you were high, He will not now forsake you because you are low. — John Flavel
The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken. — Marguerite Duras
In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing. — Vincent Van Gogh
In the cross of Christ God is taking man dead-seriously so that he may open up for him the happy freedom of Easter. God takes upon himself the pain of negation and the God forsakenness of judgement to reconcile himself with his enemies and to give the godless fellowship with himself. — Jürgen Moltmann
Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man — Honore de Balzac
And if I should live to be
The last leaf upon the tree
In the spring,
Let them smile, as I do now,
At the old forsaken bough
Where I cling. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.
Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary and broken of heart. — Mark Twain
We are reviled but we do not intend to speak evil in return. We are in desperate straits but do not despair. We are persecuted but not forsaken. It’s easy to humiliate and crush people who are open, but when I am weak, then I am strong. — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy's door. — William Cowper
If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you! — Matthew Simpson
As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil at the summons of war, let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel. Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead. Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means whereby the great human family can live in peace. — Julia Ward Howe
Living day in and day out with guilt over sin that has not been properly confessed and forsaken expends a certain amount of emotional energy; it saps your emotional strength and causes you to become emotionally exhausted (i.e., depressed). — Lou Priolo
Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the woodlands brown and bare, Over the harvest-fields forsaken, Silent, and soft, and slow Descends the snow. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If aught must be lost, ‘twill be my honor for yours. If one must be forsaken, ‘twill be my soul for yours. Should death come anon, ‘twill be my life for yours. I am Given. — Karen Marie Moning
Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him. — Proverbs
Most of the time I ask, "Why have I forsaken God?" I look at myself and ask that question when probably the better question is to say, "Where are you God, and I'll let you in." Instead of thinking that you've abandoned God, push yourself in the other direction like, "God, how can I get closer?" — Tim McGraw
A wonder then it must needs be,-that there should be any Man found so stupid and forsaken of reason as to persuade himself, that this most beautiful and adorned world was or could be produced by the fortuitous concourse of atoms. — John Ray
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him. — Tholuck
Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. I must continue to bear testimony to truth even if I am forsaken by all. Mine may today be a voice in the wilderness, but it will be heard when all other voices are silenced, if it is the voice of Truth. — Mahatma Gandhi
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