Quotes about Escape

And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night.

The point is very clear: if you are not watching for His coming, you will not be counted "worthy to escape all the things that will come to pass" during the Great Tribulation. If you're not watching for Him, He's not coming for you!

A good concert, if you're kind of relaxed, it can do something to you. It's sort of an emotional break you get by listening to music.

Yet, I doubt he would have chosen such a risky life if he hadn't been fleeing an orderly one.

It is both relaxing and invigorating to ... set aside the worries of life, [and] seek the company of a friendly book...

There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas.

Escape for your life! Do not look behind you!

Out of the frying pan into the fire.

Therefore we ought not to despair when we are tempted, but the more fervently should cry unto God, that He will vouchsafe to help us in all our tribulation; and that He will, as St. Paul saith, with the temptation make a way to escape that we may be able to bear it.(2) Let us therefore humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God in all temptation and trouble, for He will save and exalt such as are of an humble spirit.

This intensification of inner life helped the prisoner find a refuge from the emptiness, desolation and spiritual poverty of his existence, by letting him escape into the past.

What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.

Oh! for God's sake let me go!" cried Oliver; "let me run away and die in the fields. I will never come near London; never, never! Oh! pray have mercy on me, and do not make me steal. For the love of all the bright Angels that rest in Heaven, have mercy upon me!