Quotes about Preservation
It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.
— Abraham Lincoln
Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money.
— Margaret Atwood
Jesus' commandment never wishes to destroy life, but rather to preserve, strengthen, and heal life.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I began to understand the security of the covenant of grace, and to expect to be preserved, not by my own power and holiness, but by the mighty power and promise of God, through faith in an unchangeable Savior.
— John Newton
Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
— John Quincy Adams
I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.
— George W. Bush
Salt, which was obtained from the shores of the Dead Sea, was added to sacrifices and thus was covenant salt (Lev 2:13); salt purified things (Exod 30:35). Salt flavored things (Job 6:6), and seasoning is found in the parallel at both Mark 9:50 and Luke 14:34, and it was a preservative.
— Scot McKnight
For business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.
— Mark Twain
It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue (German) ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.
— Mark Twain
Don't poison a river whose fish you might need tomorrow.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
God has laid himself under no obligation, by any promise, to keep any natural man out of hell one moment. God certainly has made no promises either of eternal life, or of any deliverance or preservation from eternal death, but what are contained in the covenant of grace, the promises that are given in Christ, in whom all the promises are yea and amen.
— Jonathan Edwards
As government, and strong rods for the exercise of it, are necessary to preserve public societies from dreadful and fatal calamities arising from among themselves; so no less requisite are they to defend the community from foreign enemies. As they are like the pillars of a building, so they are also like the walls and bulwarks of a city: they are under God the main strength of a people in a time of war and the chief instruments of their preservation, safety and rest.
— Jonathan Edwards