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Quotes About Deliverance

I looked back upon my past life with such horror, and my sins appeared so dreadful, that my soul sought nothing of God but deliverance from the load of guilt that bore down all my comfort.
~ Daniel Defoe
I don't worry about being in a hurry any more, because my faith in God will always deliver me on time.
~ Martha Reeves
He will save me from the water and from the fire.
~ William Faulkner
Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
~ Henri Amiel
Delays are not refusals; many a prayer is registered, and underneath it the words: "My time is not yet come." God has a set time as well as a set purpose, and He who orders the bounds of our habitation orders also the time of our deliverance.
~ Lettie B. Cowman
Premature deliverance may frustrate God's work of grace in your life. Just commit the whole situation to Him. Be willing to abide in darkness so long as you have His presence. Remember that it is better to walk in the dark with
~ Lettie B. Cowman
They get arrested, and God's angel turns them loose." Several voices joined in laughter. But Peter raised a hand for silence. "Brothers and sisters, it matters not. Perhaps the next time they arrest us we will not be delivered. Nevertheless, we must do as we are commanded. Pray that all of us will continue to have boldness to preach the Word.
~ Janette Oke
Won't everything be all right if she's free?
~ Jean Craighead George
The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Unknown
Africa had been deliverance for me, a liberating embrace and an opportunity.
~ Paul Theroux
James A. Garfield, America's 20th President, personally witnessed the final chapter in the deliverance of African Americans from slavery in America. He fought to abolish slavery as a Union General during the Civil War and afterwards as a Member of Congress, voted for the abolition of slavery and led in the passage of almost two dozen civil rights bills.
~ David Barton
Cassius from bondage will deliver Cassius.
~ William Shakespeare
In depression this faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come—not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute.
~ William Styron
The children of these disillusioned colored pioneers inherited the total lot of their parents—the disappointments, the anger. To add to their misery, they had little hope of deliverance. For where does one run to when he's already in the promised land?
~ Claude Brown
The heaven that he won for us by his atoning death presupposes a hell from which he delivered us. The eternal life he imparted to us presupposes an eternal death from which he saved us.
~ Herman Bavinck
England was always, the cardinal says, a miserable country, home to an outcast and abandoned people, who are working slowly toward their deliverance, and who are visited by God with special tribulations. If England lies under God's curse, or some evil spell, it has seemed for a time that the spell has been broken, by the golden king and his golden cardinal. But those golden years are over, and this winter the sea will freeze; the people who see it will remember it all their lives.
~ Hilary Mantel
every now and then he would tilt his head back so that his sunglasses reflected sky, and would say, I love her. Every time he said it he seemed delivered of a profundity that amazed him, as though he had coughed up a pearl.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
The goal is not to be delivered of your problem only but to be an instrument of God
~ Sunday Adelaja
Don't just be a deliverer of yourself, but a deliverer of your whole nation
~ Sunday Adelaja
Once you become delivered, you have to find your calling and how to discover God's purpose for your life
~ Sunday Adelaja
We were created to be deliverers to the people
~ Sunday Adelaja
Umuttan kurtulu? tam bir özgürlük demektir
~ Unknown
Obedience is a word and concept from which the valiant look for their deliverance.
~ Unknown
Christ, the new Moses, liberates His people, the Church, the new Israel, from the spiritual slavery of sin and from the power of the world (symbolized by Egypt), which is under the dominion of Satan (symbolized by Pharaoh), through the sea (death) and the wilderness (Purgatory) to the promised land (Heaven).
~ Peter Kreeft