Diverted Quotes

“The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.”

“He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.”

“The eye is diverted from the real business, it is caught by the spectacular action that means nothing--nothing at all.”

“We do want to be diverted and be interested and be provoked by popular culture - by art, if we're lucky. And it's amazing how often people have lost sight of this.”

“Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.”

“I committed mistakes many times, fall short, tempted and diverted but able to reconfigure my direction because of God's loving mercy.”

“If the modern Protestant churches must maintain her place of relevance in the society, we would need to review where we missed it and how we have diverted from the teachings of the Protestants.”

“You don't know what it means to live the life that you could have lived, if an event over which you have no control, an unforeseeable circumstance, had not distracted and diverted you, and at times crushed you, as has happened to me.”

“Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts.”