We live now upon an island amid many perils, and our hands…

“Folly it may seem. Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Aye me, how many perils do enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall? Were not, that heavenly grace doth him uphold, And…

— Edmund Spenser

As a child, I heard many warnings from teachers about the perils of talking with strangers. Yet now, fairly late in my life, I…

— Michael Leunig

Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods.

— David Harsanyi

Woe to the generation of sons who find their censers empty of the rich incense of prayer, whose fathers have been too busy or…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

We seem, these days, much more willing to recognize the perils before us than we were even a decade ago. The newly recognized dangers…

— Carl Sagan

Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.

— Francis Bacon

“We have just begun to navigate a strange region; we must expect to encounter strange adventures, strange perils.”

— Arthur Machen

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

— Victor Hugo

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and…

— Winston Churchill

Although science and technology open up boundless opportunities, they also present great perils because Satan employs these marvelous discoveries to his great advantage.

— James E. Faust

I am wise enough to know that there are some perils from which a man must flee.

— Faramir

Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.

— Anthony Trollope

It is through¦ Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

— Oscar Wilde

“Not since life taught him the perils of love.”

— Christi Caldwell