Turning Away Quotes

Whatever you're looking for, don't come around here no more.

This act demonstrates graphically a turning away the past and moving ahead. You now get to refresh your time in a friendly way by running with the watch instead of against it or away from it.

The old G's, or the gangsters, turned me away from the street because they knew my dad, and they had a lot of respect for my dad, but because I was an athlete.

St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of one's back upon God, leaving the Creator for the sake of the creature. What punishment would that subject deserve who, while his king was giving him a command, contemptuously turned his back upon him to go and transgress his orders? This is what the sinner does; and this is punished in hell with the pain of loss, that is, the loss of God, a punishment richly deserved by him who in this life turns his back upon his sovereign good.

Discouragement, if pursued, is the exercise of an option: to turn from creative to noncreative mental activity, to turn from what is present to what is over, to turn from that which builds to that which destroys.

back turned, you don't have to look at what you've left behind. And the first person who turned their back on you can't watch you break down and cry.

God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away.

When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.

Turn away from mischief. Again and again, turn away. Before sorrow befalls you.

I turned down a lot of films.

In Ezekiel, chapter 33, verse 11, it says, that 'God has no pleasure in the person that's living in sin.' He's a loving God and he wants people to turn away from what they're living in and he'll give them life. That's the message I'm trying to share, even though it comes across as harsh.

And thence from Athens turn away our eyes To seek new friends and stranger companies.

I testify to you today that turning away from God brings broken covenants, shattered dreams, and crushed hopes. Such a quagmire of quicksand I plead with you to avoid. You are of a noble birthright. Eternal life in the kingdom of our Father is your goal.

Bind up their wounds - but look the other way.

We shouldn’t come up with a pseudo-spiritual excuse for turning away from the pain of the world.

There is no gesture more devastating than the back turning away.