Lions Den Quotes

“There were three loyal, honest and prayerful friends behind the remarkable wisdom of Daniel. They stood in the gap when he was interpreting the king's dream and it came to pass. The stood in the gap when Daniel was in the lion's den and lions became powerless. Daniel too, was a loyal, honest and prayerful towards his three friends. He stood in the gap when his friends were thrown into the blazing fire and 'The Master Himself' turned up as a fourth man. Why don't you choose to be a loyal, honest and prayerful friend to someone today. Be supportive because you reap what you sow and no one can change that principle.”

— Euginia Herlihy

“Daniel's prayers so disturbed Satan and threatened his kingdom that he used the jealousy of evil men to bring about a change in the laws of the entire Persian Empire that would make Daniel's prayers illegal. On the other hand, praying for Jerusalem meant so much to Daniel that he preferred to be cast into the lions' den rather than give up his praying for the peace of Jerusalem.30”

— John Hagee

“I went through quite a few establishments that maybe weren't great for myself - security units, youth-offender places. I guess that was going to the lions' den. Social services said, 'You've got to go to some sort of school.'”

— King Krule

“Always be careful of where you run to. When the going gets tough, take it easy and slow down, else you venture into the den of lions.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“I don't think it's much use your looking for the brains: a creature who twice walked into a lions den can't have got any.”

— Aesop

“So the wolfling is leaving his den to play among the lions, he said in a voice of quiet satisfaction.”

— George R.R. Martin

“Like Daniel she enteres the lions' den, but lacking Daniel's pure and unblemished soul, Ada is spiced with the flavors of vice that make for a tasty meal. Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Out of the lions' den for Daniel, the prison for Peter, the whale's belly for Jonah, Goliath's shadow for David the storm for the disciples, disease for the lepers, doubt for Thomas, the grave for Lazarus, and the shackles for Paul. God gets us through stuff.”

— Max Lucado

“Humanity is as much lacking as decency. Blood, suffering, does not move them. The court frequents bull and bear baitings; Elizabeth beats her maids, spits upon a courtier's fringed coat, boxes Essex's ears; great ladies beat their children and their servants. "The sixteenth century," he says, "is like a den of lions. Amid passions so strong as these there is not one lacking. Nature appears here in all its violence, but also in all its fullness. If nothing has been softened, nothing has been mutilated. It is the entire man who is displayed, heart, mind, body, senses, with his noblest and finest aspirations, as with his most bestial and savage appetites, without the preponderance of any dominant passion to cast him altogether in one direction, to exalt or degrade him. He has not become rigid as he will under Puritanism.”

— William Shakespeare

“When you enter the Lions Den, it's best not to go empty-handed or you'll probably leave that way”

— Josh Stern

“How do you fall into a lion's den, that is my first question there, you think you would be extra carefull around a den of lions.”

— Dane Cook