Quotes About Guardians

In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.

We face dangers every day of which we are not even aware. Often God intervenes on our behalf through the use of His angels.

Believers, look up—take courage. The angels are nearer than you think. For after all (as we have already noted), God has given "his angels charge of you, to guard you in all your ways. On their hands they will bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone" (Psalm 91:11–12 RSV).

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

There is the explanation that is put in the language of the mysteries, that we men are in a kind of prison, and that one must not free oneself or run away. That seems to me an impressive doctrine and one not easy to understand fully. However, Cebes, this seems to me well expressed, that the gods are our guardians and that men are one of their possessions. Or do you not think so?

We should pray to the angels, for they are given to us as guardians.

If, then, Virgil says that the gods were such as these, and were conquered, and that when conquered they could not escape except under the protection of a man, what madness is it to suppose that Rome had been wisely entrusted to these guardians, and could not have been taken unless it had lost them! Indeed, to worship conquered gods as protectors and champions, what is this but to worship, not good divinities, but evil omens?

as though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!

leading Massachusetts Antifederalist Elbridge Gerry, who had also been an important dissenting delegate at the Philadelphia convention, noted that "however respectable the members may be who signed the Constitution, it must be admitted that a free people are the proper guardians of their rights and liberties—that the greatest men may err—and that their errors are sometimes of the greatest magnitude

parents went away and left us in the care of two men who may have been criminals.

Quis costodiet ipsos custodes? (Who will watch the watchers?)

The implication is that any successful order needs to suppress the power of kinship through some mechanism that makes the guardians value their ties to the state over their love for their families.

Brandon Mull

FABLEHAVEN: None who enter will leave unchanged. Trespassers will be turned to stone.

Every pasture needs three things," the woman said, voice changing, as if she were quoting from memory. "Flocks to grow, herdsmen to tend, and watchers at the rim.

We should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what objects and what subjects we thrust on their attention.

I've always felt like there was less creative space on sets with guardians. I just felt independent at a young age.

We are the guardians of our beings.

It never hurts to have an army of garden gnomes protecting your property.

When you have all eternity, the word hurry is relative. And the guards, being mortal, have less of it, and their version of slugglish doesn't approach your version of fast? Something very like that.

We are keepers of the peace, not soldiers.

Boundary wardens, Zedd thought, were tougher than they had a right to be.

The people who guard the rainbow don't like those who get in the way of the sun.