Quotes About Intervention

How could any responsible leader have ignored the Iraqi threat? If we had not acted, Saddam Hussein and his sons would still be in power.

If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.

The power of the Lord changes all circumstances

Prayer is God's ordained way to bring His miracle power to bear in human need.

Prayer does not change the purpose of God. But prayer does change the action of God.

Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

Prayer is the difference between the best we can do and the best God can do.

Let me define prayer for you in this show. Prayer is man giving God permission or license to interfere in earth's affairs. In other words, prayer is earthly license for heavenly interference.

Every step in the progress of missions is directly traceable to prayer.

When God wants to have mercy on someone, He inspires someone else to pray for him, and He helps in this prayer.

Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.

Prayer does not influence God. Prayer surely does influence God. It does not influence His purpose. It does influence His action.

God's solution is a prayer away!

Prayer is the midwife of mercy, that helps to bring it forth.

A perfect example of the power of prayer is when a blizzard closes the schools on the day of a big exam.

Prayer indeed is good but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

To have a curable illness and to leave it untreated except for prayer is like sticking your hand in a fire and asking God to remove the flame.

Prayer is our invitation to God to intervene in the affairs of earth. It is our request for Him to work His ways in this world.

When I pray coincidences happen and when I don't they don't.

God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them correct them bring them in line with His will and then hand them back to us to be resubmitted.

There was nothing left for us to do but to take them all, and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them, and by God's grace do the very best we could for them, as our fellowmen for whom Christ also died.

la única justicia de verdad efectiva es la que no representa una venganza, que llega después de los hechos para castigar, sino la que previene los males y se esfuerza por impedir que los hechos injustos ocurran.

To put it coldly, my friends, all the ones who should have died years ago, would have died years ago without beta-blockers, stents, angioplasties, pacemakers, exotic medications, well, now they're dying all at once." John

When a state's armed service is given a mission to intervene in a Fourth Generation conflict, its first objective must be to keep its own footprint as small as possible. This is an important way to minimize the contradiction between the physical and moral levels of war. The smaller the state's physical presence, the fewer negative effects it will have at the moral level.