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1 " Why worry about minor little details like clean air, clean water, safe ports and the safety net when Jesus is going to give the world an " Extreme Makeover: Planet Edition" right after he finishes putting Satan in his place once and for all? "
2 " I feel the ground slipping under my feet, and just as I am about to fall off the precipice, you draw out a rope and pull me into the safety net of your embrace. That's the thing - I can never trust you to rescue me, and yet you do. Unfailingly. "
3 " When you cut the cords on the safety net and walk out on the highwire, you become yourself and become all that you can be and all that you were meant to be. But first, you must cut the cords. "
― Chloe Thurlow , Katie in Love
4 " Thunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and lusters, thieves and coveters. We are all desperate, and that is in fact the only state appropriate to a human being who wants to know God. Having fallen from the absolute Ideal, we have nowhere to land but in the safety net of absolute grace. "
― Philip Yancey , The Jesus I Never Knew
5 " Part of the genius of (Nick) Sabin's system was that he understood that no matter the skill set, he was inheriting vulnerable kids from various backgrounds. For those times when they made poor decisions, as they invariably did, the safety net must be strong as far and wide as possible. "
6 " But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives. "
― Rosamund Lupton , Afterwards
7 " The divorced Indian lady combines every fantasy about the liberated, wicked Western woman with the safety net of basic submissive familiarity. "
― Bharati Mukherjee , Desirable Daughters
8 " I don't see how we can have both the freedoms we had before and the safety net that we all need considering the way the world is today. And that's just because human beings can't trust each other. We've given in over and over to some of the darkest elements that exist in life itself. "
