The primary reason people seek job security is because that is what they are taught to seek, at home and at school. . then with debt loads, they must cling even tighter to a job, or professional security, just to pay the bills.
We will never move out of the present and into the future with all God has planned for us if we cling to dwell in the past.
If you are bathed In God's Forgiveness-Light, Then no dust of earth Will be able to cling to you.
Because we cling to the past we become unavailable to the present.
Do not cling to the symbols, but get to the inner truth!
The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.
In all trouble you should seek God. You should not set Him over against your troubles, but within them. God can only relieve your troubles if you in your anxiety cling to Him. Trouble should not really be thought of as this thing or that in particular, for our whole life on earth involves trouble; and through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves.
We are loaded down with too many good things, more than we could ever need, while others are desperate for a small loaf. The good things we cling to are more than money; we hoard our resources, our gifts, our time, our families, out friends. . . . how ludicrous it is to hold on to the abundance God has given us and merely repeat the words 'thank you'.
As long as you cling to your self, you will wander right and left, day and night, for thousands of years; and when, after all that effort, you finally open your eyes, you will see your self, through inherent defects, wandering round itself like the ox in a mill; but, if, once freed of your self, you finally get down to work, this door will open to you within two minutes.
The child, in danger of the fire, just clings to the fireman, and trusts to him alone. She raises no question about the strength of his limbs to carry her, or the zeal of his heart to rescue her; but she clings. The heat is terrible, the smoke is blinding, but she clings; and her deliverer quickly bears her to safety. In the same childlike confidence cling to Jesus, who can and will bear you out of danger from the flames of sin.
Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.
The instructor can scarcely give sensibility where it is essentially wanting, nor talent to the unpercipient block. But he can cultivate and direct the affections of the pupil, who puts forth, as a parasite, tendrils by which to cling, not knowing to what - to a supporter or a destroyer.
And I may stand where health, success, and power Await my coming, if, each fleeting hour I cling to love and patience; and abide With stainlessness; and never step aside From high integrity; so shall I see At last the land of immortality.
Like a candle in the wind, never knowing who to cling to until the rain set it.
I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.
The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!
Whatever happens, abide steadfast in a determination to cling simply to God.
You can only lose what you cling to.
We are close to God when we are close to people. If we think of God as something in favor of the betterment of human beings, and if we act in a way that brings about that betterment-if we do not cling to riches, selfishness, or greed-then I believe we are getting closer to God.