Quotes about Defense
The Word of God is like a lion. You don't have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.
- Charles Spurgeon
The devil is after our "gardens," too—our families, homes, marriages, churches, cities, etc. Our responsibility as watchmen is to keep the devil out.
- Dutch Sheets
Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil".
- Dutch Sheets
Keeping the serpent out of our gardens is the primary assignment of watchmen.
- Dutch Sheets
It is an obvious truth, that no constitution can defend itself: it must be defended by the wisdom and fortitude of men.
- Edmund Burke
the kindred blood which flows in the veins of American citizens, the mingled blood which they have shed in defense of their sacred rights, consecrate their Union, and excite horror at the idea of their becoming aliens, rivals, enemies.
- Alexander Hamilton
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.
- Alexander Hamilton
My role is to be a defensive player, and that's what I try to do. Whatever offense comes to me is a plus.
- Shawn Bradley
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
- George Washington
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Stinking thinking" is the universal addiction. Substance addictions like alcohol and drugs are merely the most visible form of addiction, but actually we are all addicted to our own habitual way of doing anything, our own defenses, and most especially, our patterned way of thinking, or how we process our reality.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
you no longer need to protect or defend the mere part. You are now connected to something inexhaustible.
- Fr. Richard Rohr