Quotes about Protection
O heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath: guard them from all evil and let them sleep in peace.
- Albert Schweitzer
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.
- Alexander Hamilton
There is a special Providence that watches over idiots, drunken men, and boys.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The Lord protects, guides, and watches over those who are His trusted friends in His work. His work and that of His Father and our Father is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of the children of God. And Satan, the enemy of our happiness, opposes those who serve the Lord.
- Henry B. Eyring
We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
- St. Augustine
My hopes are laid up within my own bosom, for he is not alone with whom the Lord is; when he falls, he shall not be dashed to pieces, for the Lord sustains him in his hand.
- Thomas Becket
No one should have to go to school with a bulletproof backpack or be afraid to go to synagogue or church or a restaurant.
- Jacky Rosen
Syria, for all its problems, at least has a constitution that guarantees equal protection of citizens. Around the world, we have seen that this is essential where Christians are a minority and are not protected.
- Franklin Graham
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
- George Washington
He is not drowning His sheep when He washeth them, nor killing them when He is shearing them. But by this He showeth that they are His own: and the new-shorn sheep do most visibly bear His name or mark; when it is almost worn out and scarce discernible on them that have the longest fleece.
- Richard Baxter
you no longer need to protect or defend the mere part. You are now connected to something inexhaustible.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Without a sense of the inherent sacredness of the world—of every tiny bit of life and death—we struggle to see God in our own reality, let alone to respect reality, protect it, or love it. The consequences of this ignorance are all around us, seen in the way we have exploited and damaged our fellow human beings, the dear animals, the web of growing things, the land, the waters, and the very air.
- Fr. Richard Rohr