Quotes about Intervention
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)
— Toni Morrison
Tenacious prayer is a lifestyle that produces results. Prayer is more than getting on our knees or clasping our hands while closing our eyes. Prayer is an attitude of operating in conjunction with God. Prayer involves exercising our authority for heavenly intervention in our earthly affairs.
— Tony Evans
I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.
— George W. Bush
The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the elements, expelled demons, burst the chains of death, expanded the gates of heaven, assuaged diseases, repelled frauds, rescued cities from destruction, stayed the sun in its course, and arrested the progress of the thunderbolt.
— St. John Chrysostom
When you're in trouble, God will reach into the mess and pull you out.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Sometimes you had to let a person stumble, let 'em fall flat out—no matter how much it hurt to see—before they could come to grips with how bad off they were. Because until a person realized that, there wasn't much helping them.
— Tamera Alexander
The life begins to drain when our confidence and dependence upon God shifts to confidence and dependence upon programs
— Neil Anderson
What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.
— Victor Hugo
Adorable ambuscades of providence!
— Victor Hugo
I love when I can reboot people when they are being mean to others.
— Richard Paul Evans
God loves us and seeks our redemption, at times through angels.
— Scot McKnight
God will help you," Maggie said. "He's just waiting to be asked.
— Terri Blackstock