Quotes about Poisonous
There is nothing more insufferable and poisonous on earth than a barefoot monk.
— Martin Luther
Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,
— Deuteronomy 29:18
But their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; their clusters are bitter.
— Deuteronomy 32:32
There is an unknown land full of strange flowers and subtle perfumes, a land of which it is joy of all joys to dream, a land where all things are perfect and poisonous.
— Oscar Wilde
One of the worst things we can do when we are battling the enemy's onslaughts and our mind is under siege is to speak. I do not mean we should avoid asking for help or grow silent in some corner; I am talking about verbalizing the demonic thoughts, speculations or lofty things being propagated against us. Articulating these poisonous arrows only helps assimilate them into our hearts and live them out in our souls.
— Kris Vallotton
The beauty is an illusion, and also a warning: there's a dark side to beauty, as with poisonous butterflies.
— Margaret Atwood
No, it's this poisonous atmosphere. I suppose it is pretty thick, now that you mention it.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I can think of nothing more poisonous than to rot in the stink of your own reflections.
— Frank Herbert
Whatever therefore is terrible, with regard to sight, is sublime too, whether this cause of terror be endued with greatness of dimensions or not; for it is impossible to look on anything as trifling, or contemptible, that may be dangerous. There are many animals, who, though far from being large, are yet capable of raising ideas of the sublime, because they are considered as objects of terror. As serpents and poisonous animals of almost all kinds.
— Edmund Burke
Nothing is more poisonous than the spirit of entitlement that permeates our culture and sometimes, sadly, our churches.
— Randy Alcorn