Quotes about Intervention

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

So often we think it is our job to push people, and it really is a lack of faith that the Spirit is already at work in them, leading them. We think the Spirit can't work without us jumping in to help make sure they know what the Bible says, or this or that.

When we did so poorly at helping folks recover from drug addiction, we stepped back and said, "Duh, no wonder. None of us are heroine addicts.

Sometimes God allows storms to come together in such a way that they ultimately fulfill something that would never have happened otherwise.

Government help to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

I couldn't rid myself of the sense that Roy was in danger somehow, that old demons were driving him toward an abyss, and that if only I was a better brother, my intervention would prevent his fall.

I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with.

If you love someone who is ruining his or her life because of faulty thinking, and you don't do anything about it because you are afraid of what others might think, it would seem that rather than being loving, you are in fact being heartless.

Love someone too much to help them prevent making a mistake.

What the world needs is not 'a little bit of love', but a surgical operation.

Let him into the mire and muck of our world. For only if we let him in can he pull us out.

Ben Carson: I guess God had something to do with this. Craig: I guess God had everything to do with it.