Quotes About Fallen

One never notices how nice it is to be worshipped until one has fallen from grace,

But the false serpent persuaded Adam that he must still do something to become like God: he must achieve that likeness by deciding and acting for himself...He wanted instead to unravel the mystery of his being for himself, to make himself what God had already made him. That was the Fall of man.

Evil is nothing more than that, which was once divine, and has fallen into shit." Indrid Night - Through A Glass Darkly.

Ever since his fall in the Garden of Eden, man has listened to his desires more than his reason.

He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front.

And in a minute the loudest Yankee voice I ever heard in my life yells out, OE'm Pop-OE the Sailor-r-r-r Ma-a-an! and then somebody jumps up and down in the upstairs hall. In another second the house would of fallen down.

Sera put the back of her hand against her forehead. "I screamed in vengeful woe for my fallen comrade, summoning a storm of ice to tear into the dragon's scales. It

tribe—a nation—will not change until it realizes how low it has fallen. When my people realize that they have loved bondage with leisure and sin better than strenuous liberty with

It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.

I cannot change the fact that divorce is wrong. It's never right. But we are all human, we are all part of a fallen world.

I've fallen to make people laugh. Often.

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase... Rather, it's displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.

Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly.

Over time, he'd come to understand that in some dark corner of his mind, he'd been dreading and half-expecting the news. The ax had fallen at last, suspense was forever over . . .

How does one balance the fallen and redeemed aspects of life in the artistic portrayal of human experience in the world?

People who insist upon dressing casually also want to think casually. And in a fallen world, thinking casually means being wrong more often than not.

How can an unexamined piety differ from the blind gropings of the fool? What is the hallmark of wisdom in this fallen world? The answer is joy at the end of the tether. But before we can learn joy at the end of the tether, we must learn the strength of that tether. The Lord is God and we are not.

O fallen angel, the companion within me, whisper something holy before you pinch me into the grave.

He was sound asleep, his long legs stretched out in front of him, the blessed fire blazing, an empty bottle of wine by his side. He hadn't been shaved recently, and he looked rumpled, dissolute and beautiful. Like a fallen angel. She moved to stand in front of him and pointed the pistol directly at his heart. "I wouldn't do that if I were you," he murmured, and then he opened his extraordinary eyes. "It's always unwise to shoot the man you're in love with.

There's a long history of artificial intelligence programs that try to mimic what the brain is doing, but they've all fallen short.

The people no longer has confidence in its former protectors, now its exploiters and executioners. The masks have fallen.

the whole caravansary had fallen in like a card house at the disapproval in her eyes.

The Liberal approach is that man has never fallen, never incurred guilt, and is ultimately perfectible by his own efforts. Therefore, evil in this light is a problem of better housing, sanitation, health, etc. and all mysteries will eventually be cleared up.

I had read a poem about a girl with 'silvery laughter' but Shun's sounded to me as if someone had fallen down a long flight of steps with a basket of cheap tin pans.