#deliverance

The death of a real deer at my hands was just a vaporous, remote presence that hovered over the figure of the paper deer forty-five yards away at target six of our archery range, as I tried to hit the heart-lung section marked out in heavy black. ↗

— James Dickey

#hunting #wilderness #death

He may have been a kitchen servant to the rest of the world, but to me, he was the world. ↗

— Brittany Comeaux

#love #true-love #love

We may understand again, therefore, from this picture, that God's purpose in the cross of Jesus Christ was two-fold: first that we might be forgiven, being saved from sin's penalty because Christ died for us, and secondly, that we might be delivered from sin's power, because this old sinful nature, called the flesh, died with Him. ↗

— Major W. Ian Thomas

#deliverance #sin-nature #nature

God will lead you into a deliverance where the means that delivers you will be those who would destroy you. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#delivers #destroy #god #into #lead

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#come #day #deliverance #figures #illusory

Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song? ↗

— Francis Scott Key

#defenders #deliverance #deserve #does #heart

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity! ↗

— George A. Smith

#does #find #himself #his #man

None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#inspirational #interdependence #salvation #inspirational

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison. ↗

— Edwin Arnold

#deliverance #each #his #makes #man