Quotes about Security
If one is linked to a flat, one-dimensional faith, then this verse is a bitter loss of faith . But if we think in terms of obedience on its way to risky imagination, then this verse is an opening for new faith beyond the conventions and routines that secure but do not reckon with God's awefulness .
— Walter Brueggemann
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— Wanda Brunstetter
It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.
— Washington Irving
With God beside us every moment of the day, we are safeāeven when bad things happen, even when God's timing is not our timing. He is our refuge.
— Darlene Zschech
To trust someone is to believe that he or she has your best interests in mind, that the person will protect you from harm and is reliable.
— James Bryan Smith
An act of terrorism totally outside the bounds of international law and diplomatic tradition. ... a crisis that calls for firmness and restraint.
— Jimmy Carter
With God there is no potential for fraud, deception, contamination, or disaster.
— James Garlow
Nothing is more important than your family. Nothing comes before your responsibility to watch out for them and provide a home safe from any assault upon them, body or soul.
— James MacDonald
Proverbs 18:10, "The name of the LORD is a strong tower.
— James MacDonald
Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government, which impartially secures to every man, whatever is his own
— James Madison
Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
— James Madison
On Democracies: "there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
— James Madison