Quotes about Overlook
But they deliberately overlook the fact that long ago by God’s word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water,
- 2 Peter 3:5
In the deceitfulness of our hearts, we sometimes play with temptation by entertaining the thought that we can always confess and later ask forgiveness. Such thinking is exceedingly dangerous. God's judgement is without partiality. He never overlooks our sin. He never decides not to bother, since the sin is only a small one. No, God hates sin intensely whenever and wherever He finds it.
- Jerry Bridges
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
She said: Sheriff how come you to let crime get so out of hand in your county? Sounded like a fair question I reckon. Maybe it was a fair question. Anyway I told her, I said: It starts when you begin to overlook bad manners. Any time you quit hearin Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight.
- Cormac McCarthy
What does all this biblical and experiential data tell us? That you cannot talk about human beings made in God's image without talking about relationships. Yet it is often the first thing we overlook. Only when human beings live in community do we fully reflect the likeness
- Timothy Lane
A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.
- William Faulkner
We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.
- Samuel Johnson
was left off the list. The guy was avoided
- Max Lucado
Those who read the Scriptures as magnificent literature, breath-taking poetry, or history and overlook the story of salvation miss the Bible's real meaning and message.
- Billy Graham
When life is hard it's easy to focus only on the bad things and forget all about the good things God has given us. But God has blessed every one of us in ways we often overlook.
- Billy Graham
What I cannot love, I overlook.
- Anais Nin
There was such anguish in the gush of grief that accompanied this raving, that my compassion made me overlook its folly.
- Emily Bronte