Definition of Forsake

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Definition of Forsake
	Forsake To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity. To renounce; to reject; to refuse. Related Definitions: Abandon, Adversity, And, As, Depart, Desert, Entirely, False, Forsake, From, In, Leave, Or, Quit, Refuse, Reject, Renounce, To, Us, Withdraw

Forsake Quotations

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
Saint Augustine

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
John Calvin

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
T. S. Eliot

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
Marcel Proust

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George Eliot

My theology is such that the God who loves Israel and will not forsake Israel - which is why I want to see Israel have a secure nation with secure borders - also loves the Palestinians.
Tony Campolo

If you desire ease, forsake learning.
Nagarjuna

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
Jean de la Bruyere

If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!
Matthew Simpson

It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.
William Banting

Forsake Translations

forsake in Afrikaans is verlaat
forsake in Dutch is in de steek laten, laten varen
forsake in German is verlassen
forsake in Italian is lasciare
forsake in Latin is relinquo
forsake in Norwegian is oppgi, svikte
forsake in Spanish is abandonar, desamparar

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