The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and he helps me. My heart leaps for joy, and with my song I praise him. – The Bible Psalm 28:7
But you, O Lord, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head. I cried aloud to the Lord, and he answered me from his holy hill. – The Bible Psalm 3:3-4
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety. – Edmund Burke
In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one. – The Bible Ephesians 6:16
It’s known as the Livingstone Formulation. It’s a cunning rhetorical device routinely deployed to shield avowedly left-wing establishment figures from any scrutiny that might expose their ‘anti-Zionist’ obsessions as redolent of a bigotry of that older and more unambiguously unsanitary type: antisemitism. – Terry Glavin
