Leaving

Famous quotes containing the word leaving:

    Let God alone if need be. Methinks, if I loved him more, I should keep him—I should keep myself rather—at a more respectful distance. It is not when I am going to meet him, but when I am just turning away and leaving him alone, that I discover that God is. I say, God. I am not sure that that is the name. You will know whom I mean.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The Scripture was written to shew unto men the kingdom of God; and to prepare their minds to become his obedient subjects; leaving the world, and the Philosophy thereof, to the disputation of men, for the exercising of their natural Reason.
    Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)

    I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)