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I used to dream of being other places, other people. It was an escape for me.
- Lauren Bacall
Comedy was always an escape for me; I just happened to be a doctor.
- Ken Jeong
Without protection temptations can wear you down. But God promises to wrap you in His bubble of protection. Talk to Him and tell Him what's tempting you. When temptation tries to trap you, God promises to help you escape.
- Louie Giglio
He didn't turn to look at his home or family behind him (Escape; for thy soul, do not look behind thee, neither stop thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed. — Gen. 19:17b), but fled towards the middle of the plain.
- John Bunyan
O my dear wife, said he, and you the children of my bowels, I, your dear friend, am in myself undone by reason of a burden that lieth hard upon me; moreover, I am for certain informed that this our city will be burned with fire from heaven; in which fearful overthrow, both myself, with thee my wife, and you my sweet babes, shall miserably come to ruin, except (the which yet I see not) some way of escape can be found, whereby we may be delivered.
- John Bunyan
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
- John Calvin
For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If traveling was free, you'd never see me again.
- Anonymous
The only two motivations a hero has in a story are to escape something bad or experience something good.
- Donald Miller
Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Jesus knew what being rejected felt like. Jesus knew. He knew the feelings. He knew the struggles. And in an earth-shattering moment, Jesus exposed the way of escape for us. He matched every feeling—the emptiness, the deprivation, and the rejection—with truths straight from God's Word. Lies flee in the presence of truth.
- Lysa TerKeurst