Rescue Quotes - Page 21

• Grace is God loving, God stooping, God coming to the rescue, God giving himself generously in and through Jesus Christ.

  John Stott

  Jesus, Giving, Grace

  John Stott (1998). “Romans: Encountering the Gospel's Power”, Intervarsity Press

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• Even a beautiful God-scripted love story can never satisfy the way Jesus does...And until we are able to truly make Him our first love...we will never know the fullness of Him who fills all in all. We will always be looking to a mere man to meet the desires of our heart, rather than to the One who created us, who knows us better than we know ourselves, and who gave His very life's blood to rescue us.

  Leslie Ludy

  Beautiful, Jesus, Heart

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• I was not sure where I was going, and I could not see what I would do when I got [there]. But you saw further and clearer than I, and you opened the seas before my ship, whose track led me across the waters to a place I had never dreamed of, and which you were even then preparing to be my rescue and my shelter and my home.

  Thomas Merton

  Home, Sea, Track

  Thomas Merton (1974). “A Thomas Merton Reader”, Image

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• I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me. In my experience, a castaway’s worst mistake is to hope too much and to do too little. Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one’s life away.

  Yann Martel

  Dream, Mistake, Hands

  "Life of Pi". Book by Yann Martel, September 11, 2001.

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• If we can forgive what’s been done to us... If we can forgive what we’ve done to others... If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villains or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Forgiving, Stories, Done

  "Haunted". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2005.

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• Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hero, Simple, Hands

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.450, Simon and Schuster

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• Animals, they are one of the most beautiful gifts we have and, you know, if there are people that have compassion, there are very few people that put their money into animal rescue organizations. And if there is someone that has that passion, animals need all the help they can get.

  Alyssa Milano

  Beautiful, Passion, Animal

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are born into this time and must bravely follow the path to the destined end. There is no other way. Our duty is to hold on to the lost position, without hope, without rescue, like that Roman soldier whose bones were found in front of a door in Pompeii, who, during the eruption of Vesuvius, died at his post because they forgot to relieve him. That is greatness. That is what it means to be a thoroughbred. The honorable end is the one thing that can not be taken from a man.

  Oswald Spengler

  Taken, Mean, Greatness

  Oswald Spengler (2016). “Routledge Revivals: Man and Technics (1932): A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life”, p.56, Routledge

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• To rescue people from the natural consequences of their behavior is to render them powerless.

  Henry Cloud

  People, Behavior, Natural

  Henry Cloud, John Townsend (2008). “Boundaries: When To Say Yes, How to Say No”, p.39, Zondervan

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• He has done it. With Jesus, God’s rescue operation has been put into effect once and for all. A great door has swung open in the cosmos which can never again be shut. It’s the door to the prison where we’ve been kept chained up. We are offered freedom: freedom to experience God’s rescue for ourselves, to go through the open door and explore the new world to which we now have access.
  In listening to Jesus, we discover whose voice it is that has echoed around the hearts and minds of the human race all along.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Heart, Race

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• Dear Nintendo, We need a new Mario game, where you rescue the princess in the first ten minutes, and for the rest of the game you try and push down that sick feeling in your stomach that she’s ‘damaged goods’, a concept detailed again and again in the profoundly sex negative instruction booklet, and when Luigi makes a crack about her and Bowser, you break his nose and immediately regret it. When Peach asks you, in the quiet of her mushroom castle bedroom ‘do you still love me?’ you pretend to be asleep. You press the A button rhythmically, to control your breath, keep it even.

  Joey Comeau

  Sex, Regret, Princess

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• Our experience over the last 20 years has shown that indeed people must themselves become their own liberators. You cannot wait for somebody else to come and rescue you.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Years, People, Waiting

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• If in this life there are so many ways for purification and repentance, how much more should there be after death! The purification of souls, when separated from the body, will be easier. We can set no limits to the agency of the Redeemer; to redeem, to rescue, to discipline, is his work, and so will he continue to operate after this life.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Agency, Discipline, Soul

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• What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Perseverance, Fighting

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.136, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.

  John Eldredge

  Heart, Adventure, Fighting

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• If a man is in need of rescue, an airplane can come in and throw flowers on him, and that's just about all. But a direct lift aircraft could come in and save his life.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Flower, Airplane, Men

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• I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Great Divorce, Right Road

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In my daughter's eyes, I am a hero, I am strong and wise, and I know no fear, but the truth is plain to see, she was sent to rescue me, I see who I want to be, in my daughter's eyes.

  Martina McBride

  Family, Wise, Daughter

  Song: In My Daughter's Eyes, Album: Martina, 2003

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• Researchers were surprised to find that people with strong self-control spent less time resisting desires than other people did. . . . people with good self-control mainly use it not for rescue in emergencies but rather to develop effective habits and routines in school and at work.

  Roy Baumeister

  Strong, School, Self

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• In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.

  Ken Follett

  Strong Women, Book, Hero

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• The passion of rescue reveals the highest dynamic of the human soul.

  Kurt Hahn

  Passion, Soul, Humans

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• Perhaps the Lord has called me and preserved me for this service not because I am particularly fit for it, or so that I can govern and rescue the Church from her present difficulties, but so that I can suffer something for the Church, and in that way it will be clear that he, and no other, is her guide and saviour

  Pope Paul VI

  Suffering, Church, Way

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• Commending the victims to almighty God's mercy, I implore his strength upon all involved in rescue efforts and in caring for the survivors.

  Pope John Paul II

  Caring, Effort, September 11

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• It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.

  Aimee Bender

  Moments, Surprising, Lowest

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• I'm not a Republican because I grew up rich, but because I didn't want to spend the rest of my life poor, waiting for the government to rescue me.

  Mike Huckabee

  Government, Waiting, Political

  Mike Huckabee's remarks at the Republican National Convention, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota, www.npr.org. September 3, 2008.

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