Quotes about Danger

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

THE WILD BOAR AND THE FOX A Wild Boar was engaged in whetting his tusks upon the trunk of a tree in the forest when a Fox came by and, seeing what he was at, said to him, Why are you doing that, pray? The huntsmen are not out to-day, and there are no other dangers at hand that I can see. True, my friend, replied the Boar, but the instant my life is in danger I shall need to use my tusks. There'll be no time to sharpen them then.

I don't think it's much use your looking for the brains: a creature who twice walked into a lions den can't have got any.

They eat from the devil's crock-pot.

A fogged brain puts everyone in danger.

Struggling against the legalism of simple obedience, we end by setting up the most dangerous law of all, the law of the world and the law of grace. In our effort to combat legalism we land ourselves in the worst kind of legalism. The only way of overcoming this legalism is by real obedience to Christ when he calls us to follow him; for in Jesus the law is at once fulfilled and cancelled.

Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil. This is where the danger of diabolical misuse lurks, for it is this that can once and for all destroy human beings.

The only thing I am really clear about in the whole problem is that a 'culture' that breaks down in the face of danger is no culture.

I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life.

The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.

The holiness described in the Bible calls us to do more than separate ourselves from the moral pollution of the world around us. It calls us to obey God even when that obedience is costly, when it requires deliberate sacrifice and even exposure to danger.

It must be most dangerous then to be a man. It is indeed, madame, and but few survive it.