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• Love has the power to rescue us and not let go, otherwise it isn't love

  Garrison Keillor

  Letting Go

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “We Are Still Married: Stories and Letters”, p.129, Penguin

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• Those who've been rescued from sin are best able to help in the rescue of others.

  Marvin Williams

  Religion, Able, Helping

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• God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Wiping Out, Resistance, Shattering

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• If your goal is to produce firefighters and rescue workers, you have to produce people willing to enter burning buildings.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Goal, People, Firefighter

  Brian D. McLaren (2008). “Finding Our Way Again: The Return of the Ancient Practices”, p.70, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It's true that there is a rescue thing in people, and not just rescuing the family, which is kind of obvious from a biological point of view. But why is it that some people will jump into a freezing river and swim out to a downed plane for total strangers? What is that about? And it seems to be that it's part of your concept of who you are. That's why some people run into the burning buildings, because if they don't, their concept of who they are will be violated. They wouldn't be who they thought they were.

  Margaret Atwood

  Running, Rivers, Views

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with His grace, our badness with His goodness. The overwhelming focus of the Bible is not the work of the redeemed but the work of the Redeemer. Which means that the Bible is not first a recipe for Christian living but a revelation book of Jesus who is the answer to our un-Christian living.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Christian, Jesus, Book

  Tullian Tchividjian (2013). “One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World”, p.31, David C Cook

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• I've been accused of trying too hard to rescue people

  Kim Edwards

  Father, People, Trying

  Kim Edwards (2010). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter”, p.406, Penguin UK

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• Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and ourself, a kind of attuning and understanding. When empathy is extended, it satisfies our needs and wish for intimacy, it rescues us from our feelings of aloneness.

  Carl Rogers

  Empathy, Understanding, Feelings

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• Only death rescues us from dying.

  Mason Cooley

  Death, Dying

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• The world is full of people who are waiting for someone to come along and motivate them to be the kind of people they wish they could be. The problem is that no one is coming to the rescue.

  Brian Tracy

  People, Waiting, Wish

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time”, p.78, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• For Paul 'righteousness' and 'justice' are the same word, as they were in Hebrew. Paul clearly believes that helping the poor is a central and ongoing part of Christian commitment, precisely because in Jesus Christ God has unveiled and launched his plan for the rescue, redemption and renewal of the whole creation. Justification and justice go very closely together.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  Source: kenwytsma.com

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• Use the Day of Atonement not to pray for the dead but to act for the living, to rescue those about to die.

  Howard Zinn

  Use, Praying, Atonement

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• The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices. The physician does not preach repentance; he offers absolution.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Medicine, Hygiene

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.12, Vintage

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• Whoever strenuously endeavors, him we can rescue.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Endeavor

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• Better guide the young than reclaim them when old For the voice of true wisdom is calling "To rescue the fallen is good, but tis best To prevent other people from falling" Better close up the source of temptation and crime Than deliver from dungeon or gallery Better put a strong fence round the top of the cliff Than an ambulance down in the valley.

  Joseph Malins

  Strong, Fall, Voice

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• I'm always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you're drowning, and it's there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.

  Tom Waits

  Art, Sound, Annoying

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• I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships.

  Gilda Radner

  Funny, Cute, Women

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• They call me superman, I'm here to rescue you.

  Eminem

  Hip Hop, Call Me

  Song: Superman, Album: The Eminem Show

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• People rescue each other. They build shelters and community kitchens and ways to deal with lost children and eventually rebuild one way or another.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Children, People, Community

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• The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Struggle, Choices, Political

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• God does not stop at rescuing us; the purpose of that rescue is to enjoy fellowship with us.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Doe, Purpose, Fellowship

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• God did not rescue me out of the pain, He rescued me through the pain!

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Pain, Rescue Me

  Source: www.lifeisstory.com

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• God is the Creator God, he doesn't want to say, "Okay, creation was very good, but I'm scrapping it." He wants to say, "Creation is so good that I'm going to rescue it."

  N. T. Wright

  Creator God, Want, Creation

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• No one ever found out what was happening inside me. How the pain was eating me away. No one ever came to my rescue, or stood up for me.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Pain, Eating, Found

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• Liquor and love rescue the cloudy sense banish its despair give it a home.

  William Carlos Williams

  Home, Giving, Despair

  William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher MacGowan (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.66, New Directions Publishing

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