Rescue Quotes - Page 22

• Christianity israrely understood by those outside its bounds. In fact, this is probably one of the greatest tasks confronting the apologist–to rescue Christianity from misunderstandings.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Tasks, Facts, Christianity

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• The individual woman is required . . . a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.

  Jeannette Rankin

  Respect, Independent, Self

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• Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues.

  John Stott

  Grace, Care, Stoops

  John Stott (2013). “Christ in Conflict: Lessons from Jesus and His Controversies”, p.97, InterVarsity Press

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• To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

  June Jordan

  Love, Hurt, Children

  1978 Keynote address for Child Welfare League of America. Collected as 'Old Stories: New Lives' in Moving Towards Home (1989).

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• I love to rescue animals.... The pounds were so crowded they were putting animals down almost immediately. Seven thousand dogs were put to sleep.

  Laura Dern

  Dog, Sleep, Animal

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• A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.

  Kate Morton

  Girl, Mean, Expecting

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• If there is any one message the Bible delivers, it is the message that God loves outcasts and that Jesus was born into the world an outcast to rescue and renew outcasts from religion gone bad. He was born poor and died poor, yet the legacy of love he left us, the legacy of inclusion and acceptance and understanding, will endure forever.

  Mel White

  Jesus, Acceptance, Forever

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• We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of humanity is threatening, or wretched, or expendable. Our memory is struggling to rescue the truth that human rights were not handed down as privileges from a parliament, or a boardroom, or an institution, but that peace is only possible with justice and with information that gives us the power to act justly.

  John Pilger

  Peace, Memories, Struggle

  Sydney Peace Prize acceptance speech in University of Sydney, November 4, 2009.

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• I am human because God made me. I experience suffering and temptation because mankind chose to follow Satan. God is reaching out to me to rescue me. I am learning to trust Him, learning to live by His precepts that I might be preserved.

  Donald Miller

  Temptation, Suffering, Might

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Movie Edition: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.101, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Design cannot rescue failed content.

  Edward Tufte

  Design

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• there are no knights on white horses, no magical grandmothers in the sky watching, waiting to rescue us. Teachers may come our way, but they will not rescue. They will teach. People who care will come, but they will not rescue. They will care. Help will come, but help is not rescuing. We are our own rescuers. Our relationships will improve dramatically when we stop rescuing others and stop expecting them to rescue us.

  Melody Beattie

  Teacher, Horse, Responsibility

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• Never grow weary in the fight to rescue the most forgotten.

  Matthew Barnett

  Fighting, Forgotten, Grows

  "Dream Center/ Storyline". Documentary, www.imdb.com. (2016 - ).

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• Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs.

  Cassandra Clare

  Fate, Sky, Purple

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• We all experience it. Those moments when we gasp and say, Oh, look at that. Maybe it's nothing more than the way a shadow glides across a face, but in that split second, when you realize something truly remarkable is happening and disappearing right in front of you, if you can pass a camera before your eye, you'll tear a piece of time out of the whole, and in a breath, rescue it and give it new meaning.

  Joel Meyerowitz

  Eye, Giving, Shadow

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• Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve [them] ... by reconciling them with public right. Socialism would kill enterprise; Liberalism would rescue enterprise from the trammels of privilege and preference. Socialism assails the preeminence of the individual; Liberalism seeks ... to build up a minimum standard for the mass. Socialism exalts the rule; Liberalism exalts the man. Socialism attacks capitalism; Liberalism attacks monopoly.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Needs, Poverty

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• Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen - but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Mother, Men, Fire

  The Liberator, 1 Jan. 1831 (first issue)

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• To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God who does not control his Son's suffering? But another sound can be heard: the shout of a God crying out to human beings, "I LOVE YOU." Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice. Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.

  Philip Yancey

  Lonely, Pain, Love You

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• Woman! Come out! I have—" She looked down at the bloodless grass, embarrassed. "I have come to rescue you," she finally said, as if admitting that she were covered in boils.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Admitting, Grass, Said

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• The dark scary servant of all evil was on his way to rescue me. Somehow that thought failed to make me warm and fuzzy.

  Ilona Andrews

  Dark, Evil, Scary

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels”, p.151, Penguin

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• I won't need you to rescue meM. I can take care of myself, thank you. - Scarlett O'Hara.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Needs, Care, Need You

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• Maybe he thinks he can rescue me? No one is that stupid.

  Kim Harrison

  Stupid, Thinking, Rescue Me

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• Nothing is more symptomatic of the enervation, of the decompression of the Western imagination, than our incapacity to respond to the landings on the Moon. Not a single great poem, picture, metaphor has come of this breathtaking act, of Prometheus' rescue of Icarus or of Phaeton in flight towards the stars.

  George Steiner

  Stars, Moon, Imagination

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• As you love His children, Heavenly Father will guide you, and angels will assist you.You will be given power to bless lives and rescue souls.

  David L. Beck

  Children, Father, Angel

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• The good news of the kingdom is not freedom from hardship, suffering, and loss. It is the news of a Redeemer who has come to rescue me from myself.

  Paul David Tripp

  Loss, Suffering, News

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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. A sum can be put right: but only by going back til you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on. Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' --or else not.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Errors, Evil

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