Been Quote by Edward McKendree Bounds

Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold; when wrongly executed, no…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

“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

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 live now upon an island amid many perils, and our hands are more often upon the bowstring than upon the harp.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“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