76 Quotes About Flee

The kind of change that occurs when we flee from a problem is likely the very kind of change that caused the very kind of problem that we are running from in the first place.

I must not imagine what is ‘not’ as a means of escaping what ‘is’. Rather, I must understand what ‘is’ and imagine how I can make it what it is ‘not’.

There’s not much that I can find in places where there is nothing to find. However, to avoid facing God I find myself spending a lot of time in those very places.

To run from reality is to avoid the very thing that our dreams are made of.

My faith is not some escapist fantasy born of my inability to face reality. Rather, it is the belief in a reality that supersedes the one that I am being accused of escaping from. And because that’s the case, that reality demands more of me than would have been demanded had I stay put. So, if I am in fact escaping, it’s escaping to something better which is entirely different than fleeing from something that I fear.

Is something really ‘too late,’ or is that the excuse I use because I’m ‘too afraid?

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

In my efforts to flee God, I will always end up some place where’s He’s at because I’ve never left where He was.

In reality, how far can I run from that which I fear if that which I fear is based on that which I think? With that said, maybe it’s more about running ‘from’ the way I currently think and running ‘to’ the way I should think.