Quotes about Abandonment
This is the loneliest point in history. The last moment of true abandonment. From here on, abandonment is nothing more than a myth. And loneliness? A choice.
- Max Lucado
Money gone. Expectations dashed. Friends vanished. Who's left? God is.
- Max Lucado
attraction to and tolerance for the bizarre, other-centeredness that results in abandonment of self
- Melody Beattie
You did not abandon them in the wilderness because of Your great compassion. Nehemiah 9:19
- Beth Moore
What husband is he who abandons his wife? What wife is she taken without love? The gods demand of us action and the use of our free will! That is piety, not to buckle beneath necessity's yoke like dumb beasts!
- Steven Pressfield
When Jesus needed friends, they left Him.
- Billy Graham
Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.
- Anais Nin
It can be summed up by saying that suffering is overcome by suffering, and wounds are healed by wounds. For the suffering in suffering is the lack of love, and the wounds in wounds are the abandonment, and the powerlessness in pain is unbelief. And therefore the suffering of abandonment is overcome by the suffering of love, which is not afraid of what is sick and ugly, but accepts it and takes it to itself in order to heal it. Through
- Jurgen Moltmann
In concrete terms, God is revealed in the cross of Christ who was abandoned by God. His grace is revealed in sinners. His righteousness is revealed in the unrighteous and in those without rights, and his gracious election in the damned. The
- Jurgen Moltmann
We are all subject to forgetfulness of God's faithfulness in the past, laziness to act on the divine promise, and postponing until tomorrow what Jesus is asking of us today: childlike abandonment in trust.
- Brennan Manning
Abandonment is the triumph of trust in our lives.
- Brennan Manning
I have also learned to catch the darkness early, not to allow sadness to grow into depression or let a sense of being rejected develop into a feeling of abandonment. Even in the renewed and deepened friendship, I feel the freedom to point to the little clouds and ask for help in letting them pass by.
- Henri Nouwen