Quotes about Danger
Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.
- Frank Herbert
Power bases are very dangerous because they attract people who are truly insane, people who seek power only for the sake of power.
- Frank Herbert
She had quoted a Bene Gesserit proverb to him: "When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movement becomes headlong—faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thought of obstacles and forget that a precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late." Paul
- Frank Herbert
The absence of a thing, can be as deadly as the presence.
- Frank Herbert
Charles Wallace, the danger here is greatest for you. Why? Because of what you are. Just exactly because of what you are you will be by far the most vulnerable. You must stay with Meg and Calvin. You must not go off on your own. Beware of pride and arrogance, Charles, for they may betray you.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Why, my Lord, did you have to bring Me down from the safety of my hill Into the danger of your will? (David p. 34)
- Madeleine L'Engle
dis-aster is separation from the stars. Such separation is disaster indeed. When we are separated from the stars, the sea, each other, we are in danger of being separated from God.
- Madeleine L'Engle
They do not realize that the most dangerous source of sin is the love of the world with its lusts and pleasures.
- Andrew Murray
It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and acknowledge Him to be Christ and Mediator will remain to the end safe from all danger, for what is said of the body of the Church belongs to each of its members since they are one in Christ.
- John Calvin
since Satan is always breathing down our necks, and is ready and scheming to plunge us into a thousand perils, we ought to be no less watchful and on our guard.
- John Calvin
For nothing is more dangerous than to live where the public license of crime prevails; yea, there is no pestilence so destructive, as that corruption of morals, which is opposed neither by laws nor judgments, nor any other remedies.
- John Calvin
Men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success
- John Calvin