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Quotes About Protection

I covered myself with my hands and made soft noises like a child. Blush, blush, I prayed. Blush for him, or he will kill you. And I was fortunate, for it was warm in the room, and I was angry, and ashamed too,
~ Madeline Miller
I fled so she would not see my tears and wear them as another of her trophies.
~ Madeline Miller
If the law can't protect us, then I'm dedicated to a myth, and I better wake up.
~ John D. MacDonald
People have their acquired armor, made up of gestures and expressions and defensive chatter.
~ John D. MacDonald
Marriage is the sanctuary of the heart. You have been entrusted with the heart of another human being. Whatever else your life's great mission will entail, loving and defending this heart next to you is part of your great quest.
~ John Eldredge
We would like to picture goodness as being synonymous with safety.
~ John Eldredge
the great divide lies between men as lovers and men as consumers. Does he seek her out, long for her, because really he yearns for her to meet some need in his life—a need for validation (she makes him feel like a man), or mercy, or simply sexual gratification? That man is a Consumer, as my friend Craig calls him. The lover, on the other hand, wants to fight for her—he wants to protect her, make her life better, wants to fill her heart in every way he can.
~ John Eldredge
Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life. —KING SOLOMON (PROV. 4:23)
~ John Eldredge
Jesus said, "Do not throw your pearls to pigs" (Matt. 7:6). By this we don't think he was calling some people pigs. He was saying, "Look—be careful that you do not give something precious to someone who, at best, cannot recognize its beauty, or at worst, will trample on it." Consider your feminine heart and beauty your treasure, your pearls.
~ John Eldredge
You have been entrusted with the heart of another human being. Whatever else your life's great mission will entail, loving and defending this heart next to you is part of your great quest.
~ John Eldredge
As did Jesus, when he said to his dear ones, "I am sending you out like sheep among wolves" (Matt. 10:16). The metaphor so perfectly describes our situation we almost want to smile—like when the young bride and groom are waving good-bye and the grandfather leans over to the grandmother and whispers, "They have no idea what they've just gotten themselves into." The humor of absurd understatement. But
~ John Eldredge
Life is a wonderful, precious thing – a tiny realm of order in the vast chaos of the unliving universe around – and all living things need protection. A cell has its cytoplasm. Fish have their scales. Humans have skin. Bark is a tree's.
~ Unknown
But though one may keep the wolves from one's door, they still howl out there in the darkness.
~ John Fowles
MRS. PEACHUM How the mother is to be pitied who has handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars and lectures of morality are nothing to them – they break through them all.
~ John Gay
He's busy taking the fifth
~ John Grisham
He was neutral on prayer, skeptical of free speech, sympathetic to tax protestors, indifferent to Indians, afraid of blacks, tough on pornographers, soft on criminals, and fairly consistent in his protection of the environment
~ John Grisham
She was a good swimmer but we never used life jackets." "It wouldn't matter in that storm.
~ John Grisham
banks and student loan companies had convinced Congress that such debts should be given special protection and not exempted. She remembered him saying, "Hell, even gamblers can go bankrupt and walk away.
~ John Grisham
On the console between us is a 9-millimeter Glock, properly purchased and registered by him.
~ John Grisham
Reed will pull a Trump, file for bankruptcy and hide behind the courts for protection
~ John Grisham
He began by talking about daughters and how special they are. How they are different from little boys and need special protection. He told them of his own daughter and the special bond that exists between father and daughter, a bond that could not be explained and should not be tampered with.
~ John Grisham
He received his first death threat at the age of twenty-five, and started carrying a gun.
~ John Grisham
I think children have a right not to be raped, and their parents have the right to protect them. I think little girls are special, and if mine was tied to a tree and gang raped by two dopeheads I'm sure it would make me crazy. I think good and decent fathers should have a constitutional right to execute any pervert who touches their children.
~ John Grisham
A stable society is built on notions of fairness and justice and it's left to judges like you and me to make sure all citizens are protected from the corrupt, the violent, and the forces of evil.
~ John Grisham