Quotes about Intervention

Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

Never a choice. Always being rescued.

In the time that we're here today, more women and children will die violently in the Darfur region than in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel or Lebanon. So, after September 30, you won't need the UN - you will simply need men with shovels and bleached white linen and headstones.

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

Ford, you seem to think it's your job to save everyone. When did God step off the throne and put you in charge? Last time I looked, you were not the Savior of the world.

Today, we save lives.

When God's in it, the job gets done.

What if he is the one who brought her to me?

You would enable him to make good choices. Help him turn to You. Don't let the enemy win a victory in his heart. Lord, do whatever You need to do in order to bring him to his senses." There were no guarantees in prayer.

Lord, You know that Tony is not the man I want him to be. He's not the man You want him to be. So I'm putting him right at the top here.

It was an opportunity to intervene at the heart of the problem: to bring God and language to natives who were assumed to have neither; to alter their diets, their clothes, their minds; to help them despise everything that had once made their lives worthwhile and to offer them instead the privilege of knowing the one and only God and a chance, thereby, for redemption. (227)