Quotes about Peril

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

To worry is to add another hazard.

minnows who go to a whale to learn how to grow bigger are likely to be swallowed in the process.

We may reconcile ourselves to the world at our peril, but it will never reconcile itself to us. . . . This unwillingness to die, doth actually impeach us of high treason against the Lord : is it not a choosing of earth before him ; and taking these present things for our happiness, and consequently asking them our very God (469)?

The sweetest poison doth often bring the surest death (645).

I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which leads to a dark gulf.

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.

Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

Any nation that neglects teaching the sacredness of life and the family does so at its own peril. Any nation that sanctions the removal of God's boundaries will destroy its own.

You're inches away from death every time you go on a mission. How much older can you be at your age?