Top 167 Forsake Quotes & Sayings

How is it that there are not many who are led by sermons to forsake open sin? Do you know what I think? That is because preachers have too much worldly wisdom.

When you cannot answer a skeptic, be content to wait for more light; but never forsake a great principle.

The paramedic whispered in my ear 'God will never leave you or forsake you.'

Let my inspiration flow, in token lines suggesting rhythm, that will not forsake me, till my tale is told and done.

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don't worry. I say that to myself every morning. It all works out in the end. Put your trust in God, and move forward with faith and confidence in the future. The Lord will not forsake us. He will not forsake us. If we will put our trust in Him, if we will pray to Him, if we will live worthy of His blessings, He will hear our prayers.

You may forsake a person, a family, some location of the heart, but scars and memories cannot be discarded like used clothing.

How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?

As God did not at first choose you because you were high, He will not now forsake you because you are low.

If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!

Because of their enmity you will be left alone. They will cast you out and forsake you.

We liberals do sometimes forsake our vows of compassion for all mankind.

Is it not an amazing fact that while others leave us and forsake us, that God never does?

Let us this very day begin anew, and now say, with all our hearts, we will forsake our sins and be righteous.

No one may forsake their neighbors when they are in trouble. Everybody is under obligation to help and support their neighbors as they would themselves like to be helped.

Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.

Asking politicians to give up a source of money is like asking Dracula to forsake blood.

What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?

It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.

Some people have loved ones they will not forsake, even though they are a pain in the neck.

If I had the stars from the darkest night and the diamonds from the deepest ocean, I'd forsake them all for your sweet kiss, for that's all I'm wishin' to be ownin'.

We have a God who loves us. We are in the palm of his hand. He doesn't leave us, and He doesn't forsake us.

By my love and my hope I beseech you - do not forsake hero in your soul!

If you desire ease, forsake learning. If you desire learning, forsake ease.

Forsake Alcohol, eat grapes instead!

When we ignore the prostituted child, we actually lend our hand to their abuse. When we ignore the widow and the orphan in their distress, we actually add to their pain. When we ignore the slave who remains captive, it's us who is entrapping them. When we forget the refugee, it's actually us who is displacing them. When we choose not to help the poor and the needy, we actually rob them. Perhaps the only fair thing to say is that when we forsake the lives of others, we actually forsake our own.

It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

To forsake sin, is to leave it without any thought reserved of returning to it again.

Women know no perfect love: Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong; Man clings because the being whom he loves Is weak and needs him.

To forsake Christ for the world, is to leave a treasure for a trifle, eternity for a moment, reality for a shadow

If I am to wholly follow the Lord Jesus Christ, I must forsake everything that is contrary to Him.

There is no reason why we shouldn't be able to split an infinitive, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and air travel because they weren't available to the Romans.

As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.

What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey Widow-maker?

Women ... do not have to forsake the "wisdom of the heart" and become men. They need only transfer the primary force of their supportiveness to themselves and to each other but never to the point of self-sacrifice.

I don't have to forsake my career as a musician. I know how to write songs - that's not going to leave me. But I think it's good to explore some other avenues.

Forsake search for needles that are so very small in haystacks that are so very large.

Love is a fleeting emotion, to reach true nirvana one must know themselves and forsake love, for it breeds contempt

The promise of eternal life makes people forsake the life they're given.

We deny our Lord whenever, like Demas, we through love of this present world forsake the course of duty which Christ has plainly pointed out to us.

What I'm asking for is hard. It's easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn't possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don't matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to be ruins the power to write or paint.

One cannot forsake the security of Israelis.

If you desire ease, forsake learning.

Forsake all inhibitions, Pursue thy dreams.

When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.

He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of the other kind who forsake the world after sensational debaucheries.

The poorest of the sex have still an itch To know their fortunes, equal to the rich. The dairy-maid inquires, if she shall take The trusty tailor, and the cook forsake.

Though thou has never so many counselors, yet do not forsake the counsel of your soul.

It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian.

I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones.

No matter how many flaws we have, our God is so forgiving and understanding. He'll never leave you or forsake you. So that brings peace to me.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Joy requires one to be awake, Adjusting the heart's ambience to bright. Some prefer the dark, as is their right, On grounds of agony, and to forsake Not only bliss, but all that's blessed by light.

Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

Lord God...use me as Your instrument -- but do not forsake me, for if ever I should be on my own, I would easily wreck it all.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

The Lord will never abandon you nor forsake you. He will stick with you until His perfect work is complete.