Quotes about Abandonment
At the ninth hour, Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”
- Mark 15:34
I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
- John 14:18
He exploited our people and oppressed our fathers, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.
- Acts 7:19
You know that everyone in the Province of Asia has deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.
- 2 Timothy 1:15
because Demas, in his love of this world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
- 2 Timothy 4:10
At my first defense, no one stood with me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be charged against them.
- 2 Timothy 4:16
And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day.
- Jude 1:6
But I have this against you: You have abandoned your first love.
- Revelation 2:4
I can only conclude that worse than hunger or thirst, worse than being unemployed, unhappy in love or defeated and in despair, far worse than any of all those things, is feeling that no one, absolutely no one, cares about us.
- Paulo Coelho
No voice, no low, no howl is heard; the chief sound of life here is a hiss.
- Herman Melville
Our faith here can only be in God, not in our faith (that's presumption). He will never abandon us, but we can abandon Him. That's why we must be vigilant.
- Peter Kreeft
She'd left God behind long ago, and she doubted he'd care to hear from her now that she was in the worst trouble of her life.
- Colleen Coble