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Quotes About Protection

Most loving Father, who has taught us to dread nothing but the loss of You, preserve me from faithless fears and worldly anxieties.
~ William Bright
God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
~ William Butler Yeats
December 21, 1845. Sunday.]...Elder Kimball showed the right fashion for a leaf, spoke of Elder Richards being protected at Carthage Jail, having on the robe, while Joseph and Hyrum and Elder Taylor were shot to pieces, said the Twelve would have to leave shortly, for a charge of treason would be brought against them for swearing us to avenge the blood of the anointed ones, and some one would reveal it and we shall have to part some say between sundown and dark.
~ William Clayton
One man said it was very wrong to kill the memsahib and the children, and how were they going to get rozgar [employment]? But another said that we were kafirs, and now the King of Delhi would provide for everyone.
~ William Dalrymple
Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.
~ William Goldman
Why do you wear a mask and hood?" I think everybody will in the near future," was the man in black's reply. "They're terribly comfortable.
~ William Goldman
An Account of English Ants] The Subject indeed is small, but not inglorious. The Ant as the Prince of Wisdom is pleased to inform us, is exceeding wise. In this Light it may, without Vanity, boast of its being related to you, and therefore by right of Kindred merits your Protection.
~ William Gould
There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors. In
~ William Graham Sumner
there are yet mixed in our institutions mediaeval theories of protection, regulation, and authority, and
~ William Graham Sumner
As Kahn put it, the secret of investing could be expressed in one word: "safety." And the key to making intelligent investment decisions was always to begin by asking, "How much can I lose?
~ William Green
The more public thy place, Christian, and the more eminent thy service for God, the more thou must look that the devil will have some more dangerous design or other against thee; and therefore, if every private soldier needs armour against Satan's bullets of temptation, then the commanders and officers who stand in the front of battle much more.
~ William Gurnall
What have we Bibles for, ministers and preaching for, if we mean not to furnish ourselves by them with armour for the evil day? In
~ William Gurnall
Castle thyself within the power and promise of God for thy assistance and protection.
~ William Gurnall
We are directed to take the helmet of salvation—and this, not for some particular occasion and then hang it by till another extraordinary strait calls us to take it down and use it again—but we must take it so as never to lay it aside till God shall take off this helmet to put on a crown of glory in the room of it.
~ William Gurnall
What have we Bibles for, ministers and preaching for, if we mean not to furnish ourselves by them with armour for the evil day?
~ William Gurnall
The dear love he beareth to his saints engageth his power. He that hath God's heart cannot want his arm.
~ William Gurnall
He would have none be without this sword any more than without the girdle, helmet, and the rest, &c., though this I know will not please the Papists, who would have this sword of the word, like that of Goliath, laid up out of their reach, and that in the priest's keeping also.
~ William Gurnall
There is room for both; why should they fall out? Polanus (in his Syntag. de Terræmotu) tells us of a town in the territory of Berne in Switzerland, consis ting of ninety houses, that was in the year 1584 destroyed by an earthquake, except the half of one house, where the master of the family was earnestly praying with his wife and children upon their bended knees to God.
~ William Gurnall
Satan with all his wits and wiles, shall never vanquish a soul armed with true grace; nay, he that hath this armour of God on shall vanquish him. Look
~ William Gurnall
Prayer to the saints is as the great artillery to an army—of great use to defend them, and of as great force to do execution upon their enemies; it therefore needs the stronger guard to be set about it, lest it be taken from them, or turned against them by the enemy.
~ William Gurnall
A soul castled with these walls is impregnable.
~ William Gurnall
The Christian's armour will rust except it be furbished and scoured with the oil of prayer.
~ William Gurnall
It hath been the constant practice of the saints in all their dangers and straits, whether from enemies within or without, from sin, devils, or men, to betake themselves tot he throne of grace, and draw a line of prayer about them; accounting this the only safe posture to stand in for their defence.
~ William Gurnall
It appears that there is now a drive on to make the world safe for morons[,]
~ William H. Patterson Jr.