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If you desire ease, forsake learning.
One cannot forsake the security of Israelis.
Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.
We liberals do sometimes forsake our vows of compassion for all mankind.
If you desire ease, forsake learning. If you desire learning, forsake ease.
It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
To forsake sin, is to leave it without any thought reserved of returning to it again.
How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
Forsake search for needles that are so very small in haystacks that are so very large.
Is it not an amazing fact that while others leave us and forsake us, that God never does?
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
Some people have loved ones they will not forsake, even though they are a pain in the neck.
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
We have a God who loves us. We are in the palm of his hand. He doesn't leave us, and He doesn't forsake us.
People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!
If you please man and never please God, you have nothing; if you please God and man forsakes you, you have everything.
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
No matter how many flaws we have, our God is so forgiving and understanding. He'll never leave you or forsake you. So that brings peace to me.
I don't have to forsake my career as a musician. I know how to write songs - that's not going to leave me. But I think it's good to explore some other avenues.
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.
You can propose marriage naked or in handcuffs, but no one is going to agree to forsake all others for a man in shorts. You can't declare war in shorts or deliver a eulogy in shorts.
My theology is such that the God who loves Israel and will not forsake Israel - which is why I want to see Israel have a secure nation with secure borders - also loves the Palestinians.
If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me then. My barefoot rank is better.
It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.
What I'm asking for is hard. It's easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn't possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don't matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.
It is the easiest thing in the world to become a Christian - ten thousand times easier than it is to hold out unrepenting against the motives which God presents to the mind, to induce it to forsake its evil thoughts and turn unto Him.
How sweet it is to learn the Savior's love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!
The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for more material comfort. They live prosperous lives in which any expression of pain is forbidden.
Sometimes when we have so much going on, it's easy to forsake the things that seem like personal luxuries - for example, our morning run. But it isn't a luxury at all, when it is the thing that allows us and empowers us to face everything else.
When I had a full-time job, I would write dialogue and sketch characters on my commute and during meetings. Now, I forsake showers and regular meals and stay at my desk for hours, taking breaks to drink tea and eat something sweet, usually cake.
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.
I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.