Quotes about Returning
When the lepers reached the edge of the camp, they went into a tent to eat and drink. Then they carried off the silver, gold, and clothing, and went and hid them. On returning, they entered another tent, carried off some items from there, and hid them.
— 2 Kings 7:8
In the morning, as Jesus was returning to the city, He was hungry.
— Matthew 21:18
On its return, it finds the house swept clean and put in order.
— Luke 11:25
Over half of all Roman Catholics in America today leave the Church before they get married and have kids. The most common reason for returning is for the kids. Like parachute jumpers, soldiers in foxholes, and big wave surfers, parents know they need God. And for similar reasons.
— Peter Kreeft
God made nature, and is therefore not natural. This led to the end of the universal human belief in nature gods (such as rain gods). And sure enough, as belief in the Torah's God declines, nature worship seems to be returning.
— Dennis Prager
Our common experience in fact is the opposite—that the past, far from disappearing or lying down and being quiet, has an embarrassing and persistent way of returning and haunting us unless it has in fact been dealt with adequately. Unless we look the beast in the eye we find it has an uncanny habit of returning to hold us hostage.
— Desmond Tutu
The counterfeits of the past take assumed names, and are fond of calling themselves the future. That eternally returning spector, the past, not infrequently falsifies its passport.
— Victor Hugo
Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.
— John Milton
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
— John Updike
The Jews are returning to their land of unbelief. They are spiritually blind and desperately in need of their Messiah and Savior.
— Jerry Falwell
There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Has oftener left me mourning.
— William Wordsworth