Quotes about Abandonment
Everyone to whom she drew close left her. Sooner or later they walked away.
- Francine Rivers
When we won the title, I received gifts and cards, bottles of wine, and Champagne. When I was sacked, my house was full.
- Claudio Ranieri
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?'...I am grateful that Jesus cried out those words, because it means that I need never fear to cry them out myself. I need never fear, nor feel any sense of guilt, during the inevitable moments of forsakenness. They come to us all. They are part of the soul's growth.
- Madeleine L'Engle
We are not our own, therefore let us forget ourselves and our own interests as far as possible.
- John Calvin
Don't depend on anyone too much. Even your shadow leaves when it's dark.
- Anonymous
For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope . . . that God has not abandoned this world.
- Stanley Hauerwas
Together we hope to establish a standard of Bravery and Kindness, as well as a community worldwide that protects and nurtures others in the face of bullying and abandonment.
- Lady Gaga
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
- Mother Teresa
For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.
- Joseph Campbell
In our heart, in the heart of each of you, let there be always the joyous certainty that the Lord is near, that he does not abandon us, that he is near to us, and that he surrounds us with his love.
- Pope Benedict XVI
All Mature Spirituality Is About Letting Go
- Fr. Richard Rohr
We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.
- E Stanley Jones