Quotes about Fleeing

“Whoever flees the panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. For I will bring upon Moab the year of their punishment,” declares the LORD.

Jacob fled to the land of Aram and Israel worked for a wife—for a wife he tended sheep.

So he got up, took the Child and His mother by night, and withdrew to Egypt,

they found out about it and fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe and to the surrounding region,

I fled Him, down the nights and down the days; I fled Him, down the arches of the years; I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways Of my own mind; and in the mist of tears. —"The Hound of Heaven" (FRANCIS THOMPSON, 1859—1907)

Yet, I doubt he would have chosen such a risky life if he hadn't been fleeing an orderly one.

Because we are made in God's image, in fleeing from a relationship with a loving God, we are also running from being our most authentic selves.

The sin of fallen man is this: Man seeks the benefits of God while at the same time fleeing from God Himself.

There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves according to the world.

We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured.

He releases the curse in order to drive us to our knees and to seek him, to recognize our need for a Savior (Gal. 3:21—25). The problem is instead of being broken by the thorns and thistles of life and thus coming to Christ, we either flee, fight, or hide.