Quotes About Protection

the Justice Department failed to "cite a single case in which analysis of the NSA's bulk metadata collection actually stopped an imminent terrorist attack.

The collect-it-all system did nothing to detect, let alone disrupt, the 2012 Boston Marathon bombing. It did not detect the attempted Christmas-day bombing of a jetliner over Detroit, or the plan to blow up Times Square, or the plot to attack the New York City subway system—all of which were stopped by alert bystanders or traditional police powers.

The free press guarantee does not only protect corporate reporters but anyone engaged in journalism, whether employed or not.

In the words of one security expert, Johannes Beck, "There are always cracks in a suit of armor. A terrorist only has to succeed once but security or counter-terrorist agencies whose task it is to prevent the terrorists have to succeed all the time.

not all the bullets penetrated her body where the gems were sewn into her clothing." The nun nodded. "They saved her from being killed instantly." She indicated tight columns of gems woven inside the corset lining. "It's probably why Alexei didn't die at first. No doubt they were sewn into his clothing, too." Boyle took the corset and examined the fabric. "Will she make it?

Marriage gives us the security of tying another person to us-and us to them. But marriage itself also serves as a general wall of protection from illness in ways that cohabitation does not.

Fear not!" were usually the first words out of their mouths. That's because fear and faith don't mix. They cannot come out of you at the same time. When you begin saying things that are out of line with the Word of God by speaking in fear instead of in faith, you bind the hands of your angels. You prevent them from doing

Why didn't Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego burn? It certainly wasn't because the fire had no power. It had power all right. It had enough power to kill the mighty men in the king's army who threw them into it. It just had no power over the bodies of God's men.

I don't have time to explain that the women's movement named domestic violence in the first place, sought its prosecution by police and by new laws, created the first shelters, and has been working for thirty years to explain, for instance, that the moment of leaving is the time when a woman is most likely to be murdered, thus answering questions like "Why doesn't she just leave?

And as for myself, I tell you, I have had too much luck these last years. Do you believe that a man's luck can run forever? I know that it can't. For myself, I must somehow erect a bulwark against the ill fortune that is certain.

To our brothers and sisters in harm's way, we say that we pray for you. We pray that the Lord will watch over you and preserve you from injury and that you may return home and pick up your lives again. We know that you are not in that land of blowing sand and brutal heat because you enjoy the games of war. The strength of your commitment is measured by your willingness to give your very lives for that in which you believe.

When Jesus promised that He would send the Holy Spirit to the believers as "the Helper," the text uses the Greek word paraclete, which, as John Sandford has explained, is an ancient warrior's term. Greek soldiers went to battle in pairs, so when the enemy attacked they could draw together back to back, covering each other's blind side. Your battle partner was called your paraclete.6

the finest thing a father can do for his daughter is not to promise her protection forever, but to overcome his own ego and introduce her to the Father larger than himself.

Loo doors without a decent, large hook are as infuriating as a lock that doesn't offer you full protection.

Angels and ministers of grace defend us!

Phoenix weather forecast: Just stay inside.

All bicycles weigh fifty pounds. A thirty-pound bicycle needs a twenty-pound lock. A forty-pound bicycle needs a ten-pound lock. A fifty-pound bicycle doesn't need a lock.

A birth control pill for men, that's fair. It makes more sense to take the bullets out of the gun than to wear a bulletproof vest.

May the road lie easy before you and the wind be always at your back; may there always be a glass of whiskey to warm you when the wind blows chill; and may you get to heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead.

May your soul be in heaven before the devil knows you're dead.

As we all crave something to protect, so we long to feel ourselves protected. We are all infants before the Infinite...

If your armor against the world is laziness and excuses, you're not protecting yourself from battle and injury — you've trapped yourself inside with them.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Don't let your dreams go up in smoke — practice fire safety.