Quotes about Thwarted

Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; state a proposal, but it will not happen. For God is with us.”

But the centurion, wanting to spare Paul’s life, thwarted their plan. He commanded those who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land.

Men could be content to have the kingdom of heaven; but they are loathe to fight for it. They choose rather to go in a feather bed to hell than to be carried to heaven in a 'fiery chariot' of zeal and violence.

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

Love is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast.

Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.

When you are in the grips of low self-esteem, it's painful, and it certainly doesn't feel like pride. But I believe that this is the dark, quieter side of pride — thwarted pride.

Overall, then, fasting is how Israel responded when God's glory was dishonored, when God's will was thwarted, when God's people suffered defeat, or when one of God's people experienced sickness, tragedy, or death. God's people, in effect then, took up the posture of God toward grievous events when they fasted.

could not have understood what perverted shaped thwarted love can take.

No plan of God's can be thwarted. God does as He pleases, and only as He pleases, and no one can frustrate His plans or hinder His purposes.

ANIENTED  (A'NIENTED)   adj.[anneantir, Fr.]Frustrated; brought to nothing.