Quotes about Peril

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

Better to meet a grizzly robbed of her cubs than a fool hellbent on folly.

Never trust advice from a man in the throes of his own difficulty.

While we're looking up to see the rainbow—God's promises—we're ignoring floodwaters rising. While we're looking down to see how close we can get to the edge of the world without being trapped by Satan, we're taking our eyes off of Christ.

Good God! what takes place in man, that he should more rejoice at the salvation of a soul despaired of, and freed from greater peril, than if there had always been hope of him, or the danger had been less?

It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.

Because the real wolf comes to kill. To steal. To destroy.

Only one sweeter end can readily be recalled—the delicious death of an Ohio honey-hunter, who seeking honey in the crotch of a hollow tree, found such exceeding store of it, that leaning too far over, it sucked him in, so that he died embalmed. How many, think ye, have likewise fallen into Plato's honey head, and sweetly perished there?

the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril

Life is a razor, you are always in hot water or a scrape.

War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.

She was right that reality can be harsh and that you shut your eyes to it only at your peril because if you do not face up to the enemy in all his dark power, then the enemy will come up from behind some dark day and destoy you while you are facing the other way.