Quotes about Intervention

Only God can bring about the miracle, the rebirth. It is my job to love her, to pray for her, and to leave the rest to Him.

There is a special Providence that watches over idiots, drunken men, and boys.

We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.

Trusting in God is not a passive dependency, a handing over of responsibility: "Okay, God, you can do it." Faith in God is primarily an active virtue. Faith does not necessarily mean an expectation that God will intervene. Faith is an end in itself. Faith is an active empowering of the other to be everything he or she can be for you.

Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer.

Prayer causes things to happen that wouldn't happen if you didn't pray.

God's solution is a prayer away!

God's first line of defense - and offense - for every situation is prayer.

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.

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.

I love when I can reboot people when they are being mean to others...