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• I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Eat Love Pray, Shimmer, Bali Eat Pray Love

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.344, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love Is, Emblems, Trembling

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.594, Harvard University Press

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• Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.

  Ann Voskamp

  Joy, Suffering, Solidarity

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.58, Zondervan

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• If I wish to engage, then the enemy, for all his high ramparts and deep moat, cannot avoid engagement; I attack that which he is obliged to rescue.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Enemy, Wish

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• In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now. This is the space reserved for irony, sympathy and fond amusement, the means by which we rescue ourselves from the past.

  Don DeLillo

  Mean, Past, Night

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.35, Pan Macmillan

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• You can rescue a woman from a dragon - because you can go slay the dragon - but you can't rescue a woman from herself.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Women, Dragons

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• There's nothing you can do, Sirus. No one can do this for me, and no one can swoop in and rescue me every time I'm challenged. I have to do this on my own.

  Heather Brewer

  Rescue Me, My Own, Can Do

  Heather Brewer (2011). “First Kill”, p.105, Penguin

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• The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

  Samuel Butler

  Dog, Humorous, Animal

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 14

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• Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

  Mason Cooley

  Moving, Doe, Literature

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• We have a duty to rescue our closest living relatives as part of our wider responsibilities to conserve the ecosystems they inhabit.

  Klaus Topfer

  Responsibility, Ecosystems, Duty

  "Scientists find missing links in chimp genome" by Tim Radford, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2005.

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• Seal Team Six is a different unit than the rest of the SEAL teams inasmuch as they concentrate primarily on one thing, counter-terrorism, hostage rescue.

  Howard E. Wasdin

  Team, Different, Six

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• I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

  John Steinbeck

  Dog, Eye, Thinking

  John Steinbeck (2012). “The Portable Steinbeck”, p.42, Penguin

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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.

  June Jordan

  Children, Differences, Forever

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

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• The brave man is intelligent; he faces danger because he understands it and is prepared to meet it. The drunkard who runs, in the delirium of intoxication, into a burning house is not brave; he is only stupid. But the clear-eyed hero who makes his way, with every sense alert and every nerve strung, into the hell of flames to rescue some little child, proves his courage.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Running, Courage, Children

  Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Counsels by the Way”, p.89, Wildside Press LLC

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• The most successful way to combat these dark clouds that come between the light of you and that which you love, is to feel that love itself will rescue you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Successful, Dark

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• We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it our power to be in heaven with him right now-to be happy with him at this very moment. But this means being: Loving as he loves, helping as he helps, giving as he gives, serving as he serves, rescuing as he rescues, being with him all 24 hours of the day, touching him in his distressing disguise.

  Mother Teresa

  Mean, Long, Giving

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• The heart will listen when the eyes are closed. The heart will hear when the mind is shut. The heart will move you when you feel you have nothing left. Stories talk to the heart. Our stories will rescue the heart of America.

  Rob Kall

  Moving, Heart, Eye

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• Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man gets lost in the mountains, hundreds will search and often two or three searchers are killed. But the next time somebody gets lost just as many volunteers turn out. Poor arithmetic, but very human. It runs through all our folklore, all human religions, all our literature--a racial conviction that when one human needs rescue, others should not count the price.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Children, Men

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• The word "salvation" denotes rescue. Rescue? What from? Well, of course, ultimately death. And since it is sin that colludes with the forces of evil and decay, sin leads to death. So we are rescued from sin and death.

  N. T. Wright

  Evil, Decay, Sin

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

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• The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, World, Idiot

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.361, D. H. Lawrence

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  Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Cute, God

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.9262, Delphi Classics

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• God is no White Knight who charges into the world to pluck us like distressed damsels from the jaws of dragons, or diseases. God chooses to become present to and through us. It is up to us to rescue one another.

  Nancy Mairs

  God, Knights, Dragons

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• You cannot have Jesus' rescue without accepting His rule.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Accepting

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• Our need is so desperate an idea, a thing, a law can't help us. It took one thing, the gift of gifts, God in the flesh, to rescue us.

  Paul David Tripp

  Law, Ideas, Needs

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• The Cross is not simply a lovely example of sacrificial love. Throwing your life away needlessly is not admirable — it is wrong. Jesus’ death was only a good example if it was more than an example, if it was something absolutely necessary to rescue us. And it was. Why did Jesus have to die in order to forgive us? There was a debt to be paid — God himself paid it. There was a penalty to be born — God himself bore it. Forgiveness is always a form of costly suffering.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Order, Lovely

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