Guardian Quotes - Page 11

• Demon, angel, all the same thing if you go back far enough, or cut deep enough.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Angel, Cutting, Demon

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Haunted”, p.95, Seal Books

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• In their role as celestial servants to humans on earth, Angels act variously as guardians, guides, teachers, truth-givers and comforters, protectors of the righteous, punishers of the wicked, and more.

  David Connolly

  Teacher, Angel, Wicked

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• Some believe strongly that each Christian may have his own guardian angel assigned to watch over him or her.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Believe, Angel

  Billy Graham (1995). “Angels - How to be born again - The Holy Spirit : his greatest works”

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• One function of the angels is illumination, and the other function is that of being a guardian.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Angel, Illumination, Function

  "Life Is Worth Living (Angels)". TV Series, www.youtube.com. 1952-1957.

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• But the time has come; the revelation has already occurred, and the guardian seers have seen the lightning strike the darkness we call reality. And now we sleep in the brief interval between the lightning and the thunder.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Sleep, Reality, Darkness

  William Irwin Thompson (1990). “At the Edge of History”, p.205, SteinerBooks

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• The secret of the superiority of state over private education lies in the fact
  that in the former the teacher is responsible to society ... [T]he result
  desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents,
  guardians, and pupils.

  Lester Frank Ward

  Teacher, Lying, Parent

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• There's a moment in Sarah Manguso's The Guardians when she writes, "I try not to make anything up, and I fail every time." I get giddy when I come across lines like that - when the writer is not only making a meta-move, but one that troubles truth and fiction, the nature of genre itself.

  Jill Talbot

  Writing, Trying, Failing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Our union is now complete; our constitution composed, established, and approved. You are now the guardians of your own liberties.

  Samuel Adams

  Liberty, Unions, Constitution

  Speech about the Declaration of Independence, www.samuel-adams-heritage.com. August 01, 1776.

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• Obama said, basically, "I wouldn't let any son of mine play football, though I do watch." And that struck me as remarkable! It's like he's saying, yeah, let some other set of parents or guardians put their boys up for that kind of punishment (and for my amusement). But not mine! It's just abject hypocrisy from a guy who should know better.

  Steve Almond

  Football, Son, Boys

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Some think we each have a guardian angel while others think we don't have an assigned guardian angel, while yet others think God at times - but not always and not by assignment to each of us - sends an angel on a mission of guarding. The Bible's evidence that each of us has a specific, assigned guardian angel is not as solid as some think, so I'm with those who think sometimes God sends guardian angels but that we don't have a specific guardian angel.

  Scot McKnight

  Angel, Thinking, Guarding

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!

  John Vianney

  Angel, Soul, Holy

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• The Devil writes down our sins - our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel's book may be full, and the Devil's empty.

  John Vianney

  Book, Writing, Angel

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• I wish that Google would realize its own power in the cause of free speech. Google lives and profits by free speech and must use its considerable power to become a better guardian of it.

  Jeff Jarvis

  Google, Wish, Realizing

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I wish that Google would realize its own power in the cause of free speech. The debate has been often held about Google's role in acceding to the Chinese government's demands to censor search results. Google says that it is better to have a hampered internet than no internet at all. I believe that if the Chinese people were threatened with no Google, they might even rise up and demand free speech - free search and links - from their regime. Google lives and profits by free speech and must use its considerable power to become a better guardian of it.

  Jeff Jarvis

  Believe, People, Google

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• We, in the New York Times, have not yet figured out how to grow our international readership. We started a website in China, which the Chinese government has blocked, but it has a pretty healthy readership. The Guardian, for instance, has gotten tremendous growth through its website in the US. We have to figure out how to go after readership in different parts of the world.

  Dean Baquet

  Healthy, Growth, Chinese

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The Washington Post is and has been the greatest historic competitor of the New York Times. Half of me, though, the unselfish part of me that is just a journalist, is thrilled. I want newspapers to succeed. Let's take the Guardian, which is a new competitor in the digital age. Does it make me nervous that they compete with us and in fact beat us on the Snowden story? Yes. The part of me that's a competitive journalist and wants to fight and play says: bring them on! It's more fun that way.

  Dean Baquet

  Fun, Fighting, Age

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• How can we encourage other human beings to extend their moral sympathies beyond a narrow locus? How can we learn to become mere human beings, shorn of any more compelling national, ethnic, or religious identity? We can be reasonable. It is in the very nature of reason to fuse cognitive and moral horizons. Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love.

  Sam Harris

  Love, Religious, Identity

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.190, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It's curious that throughout our history together, with no apparent effort, people have been able to think of the cat simultaneously as the guardian spirit of the hearth and home, and as the emblem of freedom, independence, and rootlessness.

  Barbara Holland

  Home, Heart, Cat

  Barbara Holland (1994). “Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend, and Lives”, Ivy Books

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• The girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex; for every girl is the guardian of the feminine mysteries.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Girl, Sex, Women

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• As the dominant social ethic changed from a religious to a secular one, the problem of heresy disappeared, and the problem of madness arose and became of great social significance. In the next chapter I shall examine the creation of social deviants, and shall show that as formerly priests had manufactured heretics, so physicians, as the new guardians of social conduct and morality, began to manufacture madmen.

  Thomas Szasz

  Religious, Next, Physicians

  "The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement". Book by Thomas Szasz, 1970.

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• We don't need police officers who see themselves as warriors. We need police officers who see themselves as guardians and parts of the community. You can't police a community that you're not a part of.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Warrior, Community, Police

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• There's the trope about an impending "global-warming encyclical." The pope is preparing an encyclical on nature and the environment, including the human environment (which includes the moral imperative of a culturally affirmed and legally recognized right to life from conception until natural death). So what happens? A low-ranking Vatican official for self-promotion gives an interview to the Guardian in which he claims that this is a global-warming encyclical - which he couldn't possibly have known, as the document wasn't drafted yet.

  George Weigel

  Self, Giving, Interviews

  Source: eppc.org

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• The Guardian,[is] one of the most consistently anti-Catholic newspapers in the world.

  George Weigel

  Catholic, World, Newspapers

  Source: eppc.org

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• If I had used the term "guardian angels" or spoke of our "guides," a lot fewer eyebrows would raise. So it's just a matter of terminology here. The main idea is that we are always recipients of God's help, whether it is through other of God's beloved creatures, or directly from the Divine Itself.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Angel, Eyebrows, Ideas

  Source: www.spiritualmediablog.com

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• There is something which is going to be one of the main challenges in the Muslim world today, in the Muslim-majority countries in the Arab world, is the religious credibility. How are you going to react to what is said about Islam? So, by touching the prophet of Islam, the reaction should be, who is going to be the guardian?

  Tariq Ramadan

  Country, Religious, Touching

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