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  • This was no friendship, to forsake your friend, To promise your support and at the end Abandon him-this was sheer treachery. Friend follows friend to hell and blasphemy- When sorrow comes one's true friends are found; In times of joy ten thousand gather round.

  • This world and the world to come are two enemies. We cannot therefore be friends to both; but we must decide which we will forsake and which we will enjoy.

    Two   Enemy   Saint  
  • The one thing I always loved about Michael Jackson: he had fun records, but he's also going to make some important statement with the music as well. He's not going to forsake the culture.

    Fun   Important   Culture  
    Source: youknowigotsoul.com
  • To forsake Christ for the world, is to leave a treasure for a trifle, eternity for a moment, reality for a shadow

    Reality   Shadow   World  
  • If we deny our awesome challenge; turn our backs on the living universe, and forsake our cosmic destiny, we will commit a crime of unutterable magnitude. Mankind alone has the power to carry out this fundamental change in the universe. Our failure would lead to consequences unthinkable. This is perhaps the first and only chance the universe will ever have to awaken from its long night and live. We are the caretakers of this delicate spark of Life. To let it flicker and die through ignorance, neglect, or lack of imagination is a horror too great to contemplate.

    Ignorance   Moon   Night  
  • In order for the inner man to be strengthened with power through the Holy Spirit, the children of God must discharge their responsibility. They need to yield specifically to the Lord, forsake every doubtful aspect in their life, be willing to obey fully God's will, and believe through prayer that He will flood their spirit with His power.

    Watchman Nee (1993). “The Finest of the Wheat, vol 2: Selected Excerpts from the Published Works of Watchman Nee”, p.50, Christian Fellowship Publishers
  • Tis not, to cry God mercy, or to sit And droop, or to confess that thou hast fail'd: 'Tis to bewail the sins thou didst commit: And not commit those sins thou hast bewail' d. He that bewails and not forsakes them too; Confesses rather what he means to do.

    Mean   Cry   Sin  
  • The Hell of Regret He who wins the race cannot run with the pack. And once you get out you can't come back, because caged lions don't mate with free ones! If ever you are going to win, you must forsake the social construct of the cage and all the cage dwellers.

  • A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to get up, is strongest when he is weakest, richest when he is poorest, and happiest when he feels worst. He dies so he can live, forsakes in order to have, gives away so he can keep, sees the invisible, hears the inaudible, and knows that which passes knowledge.

    Christian   Real   Order  
  • It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth.

    Heart   Men   Rifles  
    Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.147, A&C Black
  • Asking politicians to give up a source of money is like asking Dracula to forsake blood.

  • If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!

    Jesus   Joy   Earth  
    Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”
  • Abu Dharr once described the people of the world, says, "They breed what will they ultimately bury, they build what will eventually be destroy, they hold firm to what is emphemeral, and they forsake what is everlasting. Hence, blessed are the two cries people abominate most: Death and poverty.

  • Unto each man comes a day when his favorite sins all forsake him, And he complacently thinks he has forsaken his sins.

    Men   Thinking   Age  
    John Hay (1916). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Hay: Including Many Poems Now First Collected”
  • Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

    Believe   Men   Idols  
  • The boundaries of a person's reality often do not change until that person forsakes what he or she feels confident in and then goes blindly with faith.

  • As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.

    Men   Honor   Riches  
  • Any denomination or church group that forsakes inerrancy will end up shipwrecked. It is impossible to prevent the surrender of other important doctrinal teachings of the Word of God when inerrancy is gone.

  • But he found that a traveller's life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments. His feelings are for ever on the stretch; and when he begins to sink into repose, he finds himself obliged to quit that on which he rests in pleasure for something new, which again engages his attention, and which also he forsakes for other novelties.

    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Joseph Pearce (2008). “Frankenstein”, p.155, Ignatius Press
  • Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.

    Winter   Land   Wings  
    John Dryden, Sir Walter Scott (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...”, p.400
  • English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin - a language with which it has precious little in common. In Latin, to take one example, it is not possible to split an infinitive. So in English, the early authorities decided, it should not be possible to split an infinitive either. But there is no reason why we shouldn't, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and air travel because they weren't available to the Romans.

    Latin   Coffee   Writing  
  • Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it might seem, is the one that suits temperaments like mine. The fictions of my imagination (as it later developed) may weary me, but they don't hurt or humiliate. Impossible lovers can't cheat on us, or smile at us falsely, or be calculating in their caresses. They never forsake us, and they don't die or disappear. --The book of Disquiet

    Hurt   Book   Imagination  
    Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.155, Penguin UK
  • I sacrifice to the God of Beauty — the impulse to beauty in nature. Here are flowers. Here is wine spilled on the floor. I will burn incense & myrhh. I will kneel & strike my breast & touch the dust with my forehead. I will I will! Only do not forsake me, Oh God of beauty.

    Beauty   Dust   Strikes  
    "Dreiser's Russian Diary".
  • Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

    St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume”, p.1596, Moody Publishers
  • There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of imposing on the ignorance or credulity of others so frequently occur; so many immediate evils are

    Ignorance   Evil   Needs  
    Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.166
  • There is such a thing as caste, even in the West; but it is comparatively faint; it is conservatism here. It says, forsake not your calling, outrage no institution, use no violence, rend no bonds; the State is thy parent. Its virtue or manhood is wholly filial.

    Parent   India   Use  
    Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.99, Xist Publishing
  • As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement.

    "Rand Paul Speaks of Slavery, Spending and Compromise in First Senate Speech" by Wes Barrett, www.foxnews.com. February 02, 2011.
  • I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of God, is his private ail. Let this be righted, let the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsake his generous companions without apology.

    Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.194, Penguin
  • On the other hand, I have never before so learned to know the Lord Jesus as a tender, loving Friend, who never forsakes us or casts us off when we are bad, but rather helps us to gain the mastery over sin.

    Jesus   Hands   Mastery  
    Corrie ten Boom (2012). “A Prisoner and Yet...”, p.88, CLC Publications
  • The Lord loves all people, but He loves those who seek Him even more. To his chosen ones the Lord gives such great grace that for love they forsake the whole earth, the whole world, and their souls burn with desire that all people might be saved and see the glory of the Lord.

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