Saved Quotes

“Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that's a miracle. But of course if someone is killed by a freak chain of events -- the oil spilled just there, the safety fence broken just there -- that must also be a miracle. Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.”
― Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times

“In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans; and as we recognize human rights, so too should we recognize the rights of the great apes? Yes.”
― Jane Goodall

“In the Affairs of this World Men are saved, not by Faith,
but by the Lack of it.”
― Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.”
― Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock

“When you let go of control and commit yourself to happiness, it is so easy to offer compassion and forgiveness. This propels you from the past, into the present. People that are negative, spend so much time trying to control situations and blame others for their problems. Committing yourself to staying positive is a daily mantra that states, “I have control over how I plan to react, feel, think and believe in the present. No one guides the tone of my life, except me!”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Of course I loved you, you saved my life. I wish you hadn’t I wish you hadn’t I wish you’d left me alone.”
― Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis

“Directly above them, framed in the doorway from the Brain Room, stood Albus Dumbledore, his wand aloft, his face white and furious. Harry felt a kind of electric charge surge through every particle of his body - they were saved.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people. All other people. Everybody. The kid never knew the man's name. But he never forgot that smile. "Hero" isn't the first word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved.”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

“You have been in every way all that anyone could be... If anybody could have saved me it would have been you.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Shade caught my hand, slid his fingers through mine. The touch felt like lightning up my arm.

“He’s right about one thing,” he said. “This house has many dangers. I cannot save you from most of them.”

I clenched my hand until I felt the bones of his fingers.

Then I let go and forced a smile. “I wasn’t born to be saved.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

“But I was done trying to wake her up, to make her see. To save her. The only person I could save was myself.”
― Emme Rollins, Dear Rockstar

“Because I can't hit bottom, I can't be saved.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“If you fall into water, you may still be saved. But if you fall down in literary matters, there is no life left for you.”
― Donna Jo Napoli, Bound

“You were saved not by work, but for work. Do it till all is done. By your Inventions, Innovations, Initiatives, Improvements, Involvements, Imaginations, Information, Interventions and Inspirations... Go the extra mile and dare to do it.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“You and I are part of the colony of heaven. Right now, we may reside here on earth, but our passport indicates that our citizenship is in heaven. We are on the earth, but not of the earth.”
― Allen R. Hunt, Confessions of a Mega Church Pastor: How I Discovered the Hidden Treasures of the Catholic Church

“There was a man here, lashed himself to a spar as his ship went down, and for seven days and seven nights he was on the sea, and what kept him alive while others drowned was telling himself stories like a madman, so that as one ended another began. On the seventh day he had told all the stories he knew and that was when he began to tell himself as if he were a story, from the earliest beginnings to his green and deep misfortune. The story he told was of a man lost and found, not once, but many times, as he choked his way out of the waves. And the night fell, he saw the Cape Wrath light, only lit a week it was, but it was, and he knew that if he became the story of the light, he might be saved. With his last strength he began to paddle towards it, arms on either side of the spar, and in his mind the light became a shining rope, pulling him in. He took hold of it, tied it round his waist, and at that moment, the keeper saw him, and ran for the rescue boat.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping

“I have tasted words, I have seen them. Never had her hands reached out in darkness and felt the texture of pure marble, never had her forehead bent forward and, as against a stone altar, felt safety. I am now saved. Her mind could not then so specifically have seen it, could not have said, "Now I will reveal myself in words, words may now supercede a scheme of mathematical-biological definition. Words may be my heritage and with words...A lady will be set back in the sky....there was hope in a block of unsubstantiated marble, words could carve and set up solid altars...Thought followed the wing that beat its silver into seven-branched larch boughs.”
― H.D., HERmione

“Think about this: You don't know when these people are going to die. They could get into a car today and be killed on the way home. Did they ever hear about Jesus? God has put you in their lives to be His ambassador. You're His megaphone, through which He wants to call out to them to come to Him and be saved.”
― Ryan Dobson, Be Intolerant: Because Some Things Are Just Stupid

“It's okay. You're going to save me, Miss Maylene." The girl gave her a genuine look of happiness. "I know it. I knew if I found you everything would be okay.”
― Melissa Marr, Graveminder

“My policy of always recording police encounters saved me from toxic police officers in Denver International Airport.”
― Steven Magee

“You will see only that your own people are troubled. You will not see that a few must suffer for the millions to be saved.”
― Kathrine Kressmann Taylor, Address Unknown

“When everything was said and done, I blocked the event from my memory. I didn’t realize it at the time, but if that girl wouldn’t have come in and sat on the ketamine, I would’ve ingested twice as much. If I were already overdosing, the full amount probably would’ve killed me. That one minor alteration in history, a moment which deprived me of my true desires and
seemed tragically disappointing at the time, probably saved my life.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“Miracles are the things that God created so that we could be saved from the things that we created.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Acknowledging our need to be saved admits that we haven’t done so ourselves and that we’re somehow assuming that we’ll eventually show up to do it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You are not the rejected one. You are the one who broke free.”
― Tanya Markul

“You almost saved me until you saw how steep my ledge was so you gave up, convinced I was not worth the fall; now you will never know.”
― Stephanie Bennett-Henry

“I was always a thing
that was going to happen to you,
the lightening that would strike
on a day that came
with no thunder,
and all the shelter
in all the world couldn't have
saved you.
I've been making my way
to you.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson

“But because, in 1943, there was a deep awareness in official circles that the West had been saved more by ships and guns than it's principles, there was a tacit acceptance that the prime mover in the world was national power.”
― T. R. Fehrenbach

“But the truth is, if things are so bad you’ve gotta send Balls O’Manly Steel in to save the day… Well, you’re probably already nipples up. Or you soon will be. Nah, in the real world, it’s us older folks who’re gonna save your bacon.”
― Jefferson Smith, Famine, With Fries