Quotes about Cease

When human beings give their heartfelt allegiance to and worship that which is not God, they progressively cease to reflect the image of God.

Let us fear God and we shall cease to fear man.

We are always looking for justice, yet the essence of the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is—Never look for justice, but never cease to give it.

We stop on Sabbaths because God is on the throne, assuring us the world will not fall apart if we cease our activities.

When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder had ceased, he sinned again and hardened his heart—he and his officials.

you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!

That is what Reason can neither grasp nor endure, and what has offended all these men of outstanding talent who have been so received for so many centuries. Here they demand that God should act according to human justice, and do what seems right to them or else cease to be God.

The great unthankfulness, contempt of God's word, and wilfulness of the world, make me fear that the divine light will soon cease to shine on man, for God's word has ever had its certain course.

When I have fears that I may cease to beBefore my pen has glean'd my teeming brain.

Jesus Christ is the rest of God. He is, as N. T. Wright has put it, "the fulfillment of the sabbath."114 By taking Christ as our rest, we cease from our labors just as God did from His.115 Christianity, therefore, begins not with a do, but with a done—"It is finished!"116 We enter into God's rest, and we labor from there.

Then Saul gave up his pursuit of the Philistines, and the Philistines returned to their own land.

"I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."