“To so many people, the Lord is in danger of being no more than a patron saint of our systematic theology instead of the Christ who is our life.” PeopleChristLordOur LivesDangerSaintTheologySystematicPatron Author:W. Ian Thomas
“There's a romance to danger. There's a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of those things can be used to make the story of our lives better.” StoriesRomanceUsedOur LivesCrimeLonelinessDangerDrugDrinkingPetty Author:Joey Comeau
“Status Anxiety: A worry, so pernicious as to be capable of ruining extended stretches of our lives, that we are in danger of failing to conform to the ideals of success laid down by our society and that we may as a result be stripped of dignity and respect; a worry that we are currently occupying too modest a rung or are about to fall to a lower one.” MayHappinessSuccessFallResultsWorryOur LivesFailingDangerAnxietyCapableIdealsDignityOur SocietyModestConformPerniciousDignity And Respect Author:Alain de Botton
“We seldom break a leg as long as we are climbing wearily upwards in our lives, instead we do it when we start going easy on ourselves and choosing the comfortable paths.” LongEasyBreakPathOur LivesDangerComfortableLegsClimbingBreak A Leg Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes, and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompleteness--united, such strength of self-association that no ordinary obstacles, difficulties, or dangers ever appear to us insurmountable.” Has BeensSelfFeelingsPurposeFriendshipUnitedOur LivesDangerFriendsOrdinaryDifficultyObstaclesAssociationInsurmountableIncompleteness Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.” CareOur LivesDangerDivineSafeProvidenceUsefulnessProtector Book:Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon Source: Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon
“An unfolding technology has increased our economic strength and added to the convenience of our lives. But that same technology-we know now-carries danger with it. From the great smoke stacks of industry and from the exhausts of motors and machines, 130 million tons of soot, carbon and grime settle over the people and shroud the Nation's cities each year. From towns, factories, and stockyards, wastes pollute our rivers and streams, endangering the waters we drink and use.” PeopleKnowsYearsUseNationsWaterCitiesMillionsTechnologyOur LivesEconomicDangerIndustryDrinkWasteRiversMachinesTownsEnvironmentalSmokeSettlingStreamsCarrieFactoriesPollutionCarbonConvenienceMotorUnfoldingShroudsGrime Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“Without reverence we [people] will gradually descend into ecocide. In the degree that the imperatives of the market - the temple of the Mall - govern our lives, we are in escalating danger of destroying the commonwealth of all sentient beings - bugs and bees and buntings - on which we depend for a luxurious life on planet earth.” PeopleEarthOur LivesDangerPlanetsDependsDegreesTemplesDestroyingReverenceBeesBugsImperativesPlanet EarthMallsCommonwealthSentient BeingsLuxuriousEscalatingBunting Author:Sam Keen
“We have no reason to mistrust our world, for it is not against us. Has it terrors, they are our terrors; has it abysses, those abysses belong to us; are dangers at hand, we must try to love them.... Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.” WorldWantTryingReasonHelpingHandsBeautifulWaitingOur LivesDangerTerribleBraveTerrorNo ReasonDragonsOur WorldPrincessHelplessAbyssMistrust Author:Rainer Maria Rilke
“We are in constant danger of being not actors in the drama of our lives but reactors, to go where the world takes us, to drift with whatever current happens to be running the strongest.” WorldHappensRunningActorsOur LivesDangerDramaConstantCurrentsStrongest Author:Frederick Buechner
“Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.” LibertyGreaterOur LivesDangerPropertyCongressSession Author:Mark Twain
“Aversion is a form of bondage. We are tied to what we hate or fear. That is why, in our lives, the same problem, the same danger or difficulty, will present itself over and over again in various prospects, as long as we continue to resist or run away from it instead of examining it and solving it.” LongProblemRunningFormHateOur LivesDangerDifficultyAdversityVariousRunning AwayTiedBondageExaminingProspectsAversion Author:Patanjali