Quotes about Threatening

You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom.

Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him. [...] We, people hearts, seldom say much about these treasures, because people no longer want to go in search of them. We speak of them only to children. Later we simple let life proceed, in its own direction, toward its own path laid out for them — the path to their destinies, and to happiness. Most people see the world as a threatening place, and because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place. p.125

Nor can I think that God, Creator wise, Though threatning, will in earnest so destroy Us his prime Creatures, dignifi'd so high, Set over all his Works, which in our Fall, For us created, needs with us must faile

One could argue that the human intellect was the greatest mistake in evolution—a mistake that is now threatening all life on the planet.

The Lord rideth,' he said, low and threatening, 'upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt.

Maybe it's less threatening to believe that our beloved spouse is worthy to live out his or her unlived life, while we are not.

Love taken seriously is a radical outlook, a major departure from the psychological orientation that rules the world. It is threatening not because it is a small idea, but because it is so huge.

They were undoubtedbly sincere in subscribing to the argument that nuclear weapons were a reserve held for one purpose: defense of humankind should a threatening 'other intelligence' ever be encountered.

Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that's because it is the most threatening to those in power.

It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened.

Every threatening of God, as well as every promise shall be fulfilled.