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Quotes about Preservation

It's our job to "keep" the republic called America, and we can hardly keep what we don't even know we have.
— Eric Metaxas
The radically countercultural and revolutionary movement that Jesus birthed has, in our country (as in every other "Christian" country), been largely reduced to little more than a preservation society for a national civil religion.
— Gregory Boyd
We are fighting to make those dear old places where we had played as children, safe for other boys and girls--fighting for the preservation and safety of all sweet, wholesome things.
— LM Montgomery
We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
— Margaret Mead
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth
— Abraham Lincoln
Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are ever advancing towards it.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Justification is the means whereby we appropriate the saving act of God in the past, and sanctification the promise of God's activity in the present and future... Justification is primarily concerned with the relation between man and the law of God, sanctification with the Christian's separation from the world until the second coming of Christ... Justification is the new creation of the new man, and sanctification is his preservation until the day of Jesus Christ.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
God loves his work and therefore wills to preserve it. Creation and preservation are two aspects of the one activity of God.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.
— Junipero Serra
The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.
— Thomas Jefferson
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.
— Charles Dickens
Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid.
— Philip Yancey