Quotes About Security

We each have our inner program for happiness, our plans by which we can be secure, esteemed, and in control, and are blissfully unaware that these cannot work for us for the long haul—without our becoming more and more control freaks ourselves. Something has to break our primary addiction, which is to our own power and our false programs for happiness.

In a culture like ours, still preoccupied with security issues, enormously high military budgets are never seriously questioned by Congress or by the people, while appropriations reflecting later stages in the hierarchy of needs, like those for education, health care for the poor, and the arts, are quickly cut, if even considered. The message is clear that we are largely an adolescent culture.

you no longer need to protect or defend the mere part. You are now connected to something inexhaustible.

I cannot think of a culture in human history, before the present postmodern era, that did not value law, tradition, custom, authority, boundaries, and morality of some clear sort. These containers give us the necessary security, continuity, predictability, impulse control, and ego structure that we need, before the chaos of real life shows up.

Gospel is not a fire insurance policy for the next world, but a life assurance policy for this world.

Whatever you trust to validate you and secure you is your real god, and the Gospel is saying, "Will the real God please stand up?

We must discover a source of inner security before we can withstand the insecurities that every life holds. Children are not ready for this, nor are teenagers, nor are young adults. Honest soul work is usually done in the second half of life, although it is forced on some much earlier through imprisonment or family tragedy.

Como yo era niño, toleraba poco el misterio y la imprecisión, de modo que andaba pegado a mi madre todo el tiempo.

Once she started going to church, she couldn't stop. She attended Mass the way drunks went on binges. She couldn't get enough. In church she felt safe and secure. Not even my father would dare violate its cool, dark sanctity. She took me along for company.

Protection was my strong suit. I needed something to be protected from. I

The more you had, it seemed to me, the larger your border that needed defending.

Public peace is the act of public trust; it is the faith that all are secure and will remain secure.

remember that men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread! And they can murder for it, too! Did we not build a nation, did we not wage war and conquer in the name of a dream to realize our personalities and to make those realized personalities secure!

Tokyo is a very safe city. At night it becomes quiet the way New York never does.

At the core, this is a worship issue. The first guy worshiped his religious security (and perhaps even his superiority). The second guy worshiped the cause and the social agenda. One chose the kingdom of the church and the other the kingdom of the culture.

standing in front of the jewelry store.

Now, come over here so I can pat you down. But you don't have- Percy stopped. Uh, sure. He stood next to the armless statue. Terminus conducted a rigorous mental pat down. You seem to be clean, Terminus decided. Do you have anything to declare? Yes, Percy said. I declare that this is stupid.

Could I just use the loo?" I asked the nice officer. "No." She closed the door in my face, As if I might rig an explosion in the toilet. Honestly.

Annabeth's hand slipped into mine. Under different circumstances I would've been embarrassed, but here in the dark I was glad to know where she was. It was about the only thing I was sure of.

Oh…bank vaults," Leo said. "Never thought about that.

Note to self, Leo thought groggily. Do not leave boxes of magic grenades where dwarfs can reach them.

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Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.Life just has to go on!

The most common myth about money is that having more will make me more secure. It won't. Wealth can be lost instantly through a variety of uncontrollable factors. Real security can only be found in that which can never be taken from you — your relationship with God.