Peril Quotes
286 quotes by 225 authors
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No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.
— John Mason Brown
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I never thought very many people in the world were very much like John Laroche, but I realized more and more that he was only…
— Susan Orlean
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Love is a dangerous commodity-fraught with peril,
— Robert Indiana
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If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, where ever you are. Perhaps he may be in great peril…
— Amy Carmichael
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Christian mothers, if only you knew the future of distress and peril, of shame ill-restrained, that you prepare for your sons and daughters in imprudently…
— Pope Pius XII
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The tests of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his character. The blow at the…
— Maltbie Davenport Babcock
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I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee. I testify, at this moment, to my…
— Bahá'u'lláh
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The more expansive government is, the more perils people face in daily lives, be it from IRS agents or from child support services, or from…
— James Bovard
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Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places.…
— A B Simpson
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The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .
— Alfred Loisy
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Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason; they can only be controlled by taboos which we tamper with at our peril.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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The rule of no realm is mine. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are my care. And…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.
— Bill Vaughan
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Men will find that they can ... avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides by united action.
— Baruch Spinoza
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Without good communication, a relationship is merely a hollow vessel carrying you along on a frustrating journey fraught with the perils of confusion, projection, and…
— Cherie Carter-Scott
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False religion may prevail, iniquity may abound, the love of many may wax cold, the cross of Calvary may be lost sight of, and darkness,…
— Ellen G. White
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At last, after almost fifty years in the hopper, the most famous unpublished novel in America is in print. Who Shot the Water Buffalo? is…
— Unknown Author
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REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril.
— John Dewey
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We live in an age fit for heroes. No time has ever offered such perils or prizes... The test of this century will be whether…
— Vince Lombardi
Who Wrote These Peril Quotes
225 authors contributed a total of 286 Peril Quotes, led by these top contributors: