Quotes about Protection

The battle for our lives, and the lives of our children, our husbands, our friends, our families, and our nation, is waged on our knees.

Yes, He could have. He could let us go through all of our life, bundlin' us and shelterin' us from anything and everything that would hurt us. I could do that with my petunias, Josh. I could build a box around them and keep them from the wind and the rain, the crawlers and the bees. What would happen iffen I did that, Josh?" I jest shrugged. The answer was too obvious. "They'd never bear flowers," said Auntie Lou.

We often speak of "prayer coverings," or "covering" a person, event or organization in prayer. To be without this covering can create a vulnerability; people are exposed to attacks of the enemy. In order to provide this covering with the utmost effectiveness, we must have warnings and promptings (chazown) from the Holy Spirit. In other words, "without communication from the Holy Spirit, the people are uncovered.

The devil is after our "gardens," too—our families, homes, marriages, churches, cities, etc. Our responsibility as watchmen is to keep the devil out.

Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil".

The first responsibility of watchmen is to keep the serpent out of their God-given gardens.

Keeping the serpent out of our gardens is the primary assignment of watchmen.

It seemed to me that constant stressing of the individual rights and privileges of American citizenship had overshadowed the equally important truth that such individualism can be sustained only so long as the citizen accepts his full responsibility for the welfare of the nation that protects him in the exercise of these rights.

The woman's soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.

It is an obvious truth, that no constitution can defend itself: it must be defended by the wisdom and fortitude of men.

You have been given amazing gifts, and I have been praying that God would protect you so you can continue to use them well.

Obedience to Christ is not a burden to bear. Instead it points the way to being truly human—an unfettered conscience, an unhindered nearness to him, and the pleasure of his hospitality and protection.