Quotes about Peril
We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.
— Ronald Reagan
You will be like one sleeping on the high seas or lying on the top of a mast:
— Proverbs 23:34
Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts,...Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape.
— CS Lewis
A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.
— Aristotle
They hatch the eggs of vipers and weave a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die; crack one open, and a viper is hatched.
— Isaiah 59:5
He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.
— Job 20:16
As soon as the men had brought them out, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”
— Genesis 19:17
It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake.
— Amos 5:19
The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.
— Psalm 18:5
Terror and pit and snare await you, O dweller of the earth.
— Isaiah 24:17
If we confuse legalism and discipline, we do so to our soul's peril.
— Kent Hughes
Joseph remembered his dreams about them and said, “You are spies! You have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”
— Genesis 42:9