Quotes About Fallen

I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too.

As they slithered up the muddy bank, scores of tiny silver fish that had been feasting on the open wounds were slow to relinquish their hold and were drawn out with the carcasses. Stranded upon the mud-banks, they flopped and quivered like stars that had fallen to earth.

She carried her head high enough - even when we believed that she was fallen. It was as if she demanded more than ever the recognition of her dignity as the last Grierson; as if it had wanted that touch of earthiness to reaffirm her imperviousness

Whenever the Church has imagined that it had a claim upon God which others did not have, it is already fallen away from grace.

Fallen from sonship, beggared of grace, Grant me. Father, a servant's place.

I cannot tell why this imaginedDespair has fallen upon me;The ghost of an ancient legendThat will not let me be.

I was not at ease that night. I was a prey to an immense distress. I sat as if I had fallen into my chair. As on the first day I looked at my reflection in the glass, and all I could do was just what I had done then, simply cry, "I!

The Bible legend tells us that the absence of toil - idleness - was a condition of the first man's state of bliss before the Fall. This love of idleness has remained the same in the fallen man, but the curse still lies heavy on the human race....because our moral nature is such that we are unable to be idle and at peace. p 590

I've never seen exquisite fallen beings, and I never shall see them, but such creatures as that painted Frenchwoman at the counter with the ringlets are vermin to my mind, and all fallen women are the same.' 'But the Magdalen?' 'Ah, drop that! Christ would never have said those words if He had known how they would be abused. Of all the Gospel those words are the only ones remembered.

It is hard to travel in this fallen world if you lose the power of speech every time evil meets you on the path.

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

One of her black pumps had fallen to the floor, and Joel was outraged at the sight of her pretty little bare foot being exposed to all and sundry. "Would you mind putting the president of Thornquist Gear back on her feet?" J

Of course people mutilate and modify, but these are fallen powers, and to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.

Shuttered like a fan no-one suspects your shoulder blades of wings. While you lay on your belly I kneaded the hard edges of your flight. You are a fallen angel but still as the angels are; body light as a dragonfly, great gold wings cut across the sun.

I'm by nature someone that quite likes to understand how things are working, likes some sense of structure, and I've fallen into the worst possible trade for that.

When man makes himself his own Sun—that is, his own God—then he destroys his world. As ex-communist Whittaker Chambers observed, Marx and his minions were merely echoing the first mistake of man, initiated way back in the Garden of Eden: ye shall be as gods.

If I could control tomorrow's haze, The darkened shore wouldn't bother me, If I can't control the web we weave, My life will be lost in the fallen leaves... - No Control

Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace, Yet Grace must still look so.

By that sin fell the angels.

I charge thee, fling away ambition. By that sin fell the angels.

For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fallen, quite taint their wit.

Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer,Conspired against our God with Lucifer,And are forever damned with Lucifer.

The eminent cleric was poking fun at original sin. 'That sin is your meal ticket. Without it, you'd die of hunger, for your ministry would then no longer have any meaning. If man is not fallen from the very beginning, why did Christ come? to redeem whom and what?' To my objections, his only response was a condescending smile. A religion is finished when only its adversaries try to preserve its integrity.

Any of the kneeling girls who fell over was taken away to be gassed,