“You try to save a drowning man without prior authorization.”
Dag Hammarskjöld (1905–1961) Swedish diplomat, economist, and author
Statement on UN Operations in Congo before the General Assembly, 17 October 1960.
“A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself.”
Source: The Normal Christian Life
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The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: Every man has his own circle composed of trees, animals, men, ideas, and he is in duty bound to save this circle. He, and no one else. If he does not save it, he cannot be saved.
These are the labors each man is given and is in duty bound to complete before he dies. He may not otherwise be saved. For his own soul is scattered and enslaved in these things about him, in trees, in animals, in men, in ideas, and it is his own soul he saves by completing these labors.
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Torvald Helmer, Act I
A Doll's House (1879)
“The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving.”
James Elroy Flecker (1884–1915) Poet
Quoted by Louis Untermeyer in Modern British Poetry http://books.google.com/books?id=GiwMAQAAIAAJ&q=%22The+poet's+business%22+%22is+not+to+save+the+soul+of+man+but+to+make+it+worth+saving%22&pg=PA178#v=onepage (1920)
“I was exhausted. Fighting to save the universe will do that.”
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Context: God is imperiled. He is not almighty, that we may cross our hands, waiting for certain victory. He is not all-holy, that we may wait trustingly for him to pity and to save us.
Within the province of our ephemeral flesh all of God is imperiled. He cannot be saved unless we save him with our own struggles; nor can we be saved unless he is saved.
We are one. From the blind worm in the depths of the ocean to the endless arena of the Galaxy, only one person struggles and is imperiled: You. And within your small and earthen breast only one thing struggles and is imperiled: the Universe.