Quotes about Safety

My friend Jon likes it when an airplane hits heavy turbulence. His insight is worth sharing. "The odds of a plane crashing from turbulence are essentially zero, so I sit and enjoy it. It's like a ride at an amusement park.

The temples are a refuge from life's storms even a never-failing beacon guiding us to safety.

I am totally safe in the Universe. I am at peace everywhere. I trust life.

God dwells in your heart, it means you are safe and that He will never, ever leave you. He becomes your dwelling place??a place of shelter and caring and protection.

The only cure for fear is for the eye to remain steadfastly fixed on the Lord. To be occupied with our circumstances and surroundings is fatal to our peace. It was so in the case of Peter as he started to walk on the waters to Christ. While he kept his gaze upon the Lord he was safe; but as soon as he became occupied with the winds and the waves, he began to sink.

Young people across the country have grown up traumatized by the gun violence epidemic.

I like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them.

We have more guns in our country than citizens. I think we could with maybe 100 million fewer guns. And I think we'd be OK.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

It is a mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way. You will be thrown into the world some day and then every rational satisfaction your nature that you deny now will assault like a savage appetite.

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.