Quotes about Avoidance

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

The role of a doctor may be the most revealing image in thinking about God and sin. What a doctor does for me physically - guide me toward health - God does for me spiritually. I am learning to view sins not as an arbitrary list of rules drawn up by a cranky Judge, but rather as a list of dangers that must be avoided at all costs - for our own sakes.

Legalism may "work" in an institution such as a Bible college or the Marine Corps. In a world of ungrace, structured shame has considerable power. But there is a cost, an incalculable cost: ungrace does not work in a relationship with God. I have come to see legalism in its pursuit of false purity as an elaborate scheme of grace avoidance. You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it

One finds one's destiny on the path one takes to avoid it.

What pain are you helping customers avoid? What pain are they currently dealing with that will be ended if they buy your products or service? Some examples are:

He that would be safe from the acts of evil, must widely avoid the occasions.

Feeling the pain is the first step toward healing the pain. The longer we avoid the feeling, the more we delay our healing. We can numb it, ignore it, or pretend it doesn't exist, but all those options lead to an eventual breakdown, not a breakthrough.

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness

He must avoid quarrelling as he would avoid drinking a deadly poison.

I avoided the spotlight when I was a kid. I always knew, 'Hey, it wasn't me. I didn't do anything.' If there was a camera around, I hid from it.

A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.