Fallen Quotes - Page 28

• On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Safety, Tree, Tanks

  Jhumpa Lahiri (2000). “Interpreter of Maladies”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Truly it has been said that there is nothing new under the sun,
  for knowledge is revealed and is submerged again, even as a nation rises and falls.
  Here is a system, tested throughout the ages, but lost again and again by ignorance or prejudice,
  in the same way that great nations have risen and fallen
  and been lost to history beneath the desert sands and in the ocean depths.

  Paracelsus

  Fall, Ocean, Ignorance

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• And if one of our instruments breaks, it doesn't matter.
  We have fallen into the place where everything is music.

  Rumi

  Matter, Break, Instruments

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.66, Penguin UK

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• Life is like a field of newly fallen snow.
  Where I choose to walk every step will show.

  Denis Waitley

  Snow, Life Is Like, Fields

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• Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid savagery of the lower stages of creation, and win the next stage.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Winning, Men, Dragons

  D. H. Lawrence (1956). “The Virgin and the Gipsy”

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• I want to write a song for someone who has just fallen in love or someone single and living their live.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Writing, Want

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• I want to make people feel things when they hear my music I want to give a song to someone who is going through a break up, I want to give a song to someone who loves someone and can't tell them. A song for someone who has just fallen in love and a song for just people who are living their lives.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Giving, People

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• In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces. By improvising, you'll create something magical that might be the best thing you've ever accomplished

  Tori Amos

  Fall, Creating, Keys

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• To will is human, to will the bad is of fallen nature, but to will the good is of Grace.

  John Calvin

  Grace, Humans

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• Being a creator of a song I get to take all these broken fragments of failure and chaos and weave together something beautiful and meaningful. Decay. Death. Pain. Fall. And if God is a songwriter then these fallen leaves of mine can be redeemed

  Jon Foreman

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Song

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• With the withering of the rose, and with each fallen petal, Allah is reminding us that everything here is passing away. He is reminding us that nothing in this world will remain, except for Allah.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Rose, Passing Away, World

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• Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy.

  R. C. Sproul

  Grace, Fallen World, Definitions

  R. C. Sproul (2012). “God's Love: How the Infinite God Cares for His Children”, p.120, David C Cook

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• Arminianism is 'natural' in one sense, in that it represents a characteristic perversion of Biblical teaching by the fallen mind of man.

  J. I. Packer

  Teaching, Biblical, Men

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• The sin of fallen man is this: Man seeks the benefits of God while at the same time fleeing from God Himself.

  R. C. Sproul

  Men, Fleeing, Benefits

  Twitter post from Mar 12, 2017

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• Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.

  Aberjhani

  Brother, Son, Black

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• 'If he trespass against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to you, saying, I repent; you shall forgive him' (Lk. 17:4). As the Searcher of hearts, the Lord knows that men are liable to very frequent trespass, and that, having fallen, they often rise up again; therefore He has given us the commandment to frequently forgive trespasses, and He Himself is the first to fulfill His holy word. As soon as you say from your whole heart, 'I repent,' you will be immediately forgiven.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Heart, Men

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• Anyone who has fallen into fornication, adultery or any other such bodily impurity, should desist from this revolting filth and cleanse himself through confession, tears, fasting and the like. For God judges unrepentant fornicators and adulterers. He condemns them, dismisses them and consigns them to hell, unquenchable fire and other never-ending punishments, saying, 'Let the impure and accursed be taken away, lest they see and enjoy the glory of the Lord' (cf. Isa. 26:10 LXX).

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Taken, Punishment

  Saint Gregory Palamas, Christopher Veniamin, Monastery of St. John the Baptist (Essex, England) (2009). “The homilies”, Mount Thabor Pub

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• Something very beautiful happens to people when their world's fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.

  Marianne Williamson

  Beautiful, Humility, People

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• Man’s will is free to follow his inclinations, but fallen man’s inclinations are always and invariably away from God.

  R. C. Sproul

  Men, Inclination

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• I've fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of the army as one of the happier experiences of my life.

  David Eddings

  Army, Groceries

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• We must make clear to the Germans that the wrong for which their fallen leaders are on trial is not that they lost the war, but that they started it. And we must not allow ourselves to be drawn into a trial of the causes of the war, for our position is that no grievances or policies will justify resort to aggressive war. It is utterly renounced and condemned as an instrument of policy.

  Robert H. Jackson

  War, Government, Leader

  Statement by Justice Jackson on War Trials Agreement, avalon.law.yale.edu. August 12, 1945.

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• How your heart can possibly find a way to love and trust a man again proves that I've fallen in love with the bravest woman I've ever known. I know how much courage it took for you to allow me in after what your father did to you. And I swear I will spend every last breath thanking you for allowing yourself to love me. Thank you so much for loving me, Linden Sky Hope.

  Colleen Hoover

  Love, Father, Heart

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• ...the sounds next door served as a kind of trip wire: I seemed to stumble and fall on my face, skinning and bruising myself here and there and scattering my emotional and intellectual possessions. There was no point in pretending that I had not fallen, for when we are stretched out in the dirt we must pick ourselves up and brush off our clothes. This then, in a sense, is what I did, reviewing my considered opinions on marriage, constancy, man's nature, and the importance of love. When I had picked up my possessions and repaired my appearance, I fell asleep.

  John Cheever

  Love, Fall, Men

  John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings”

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• There's the wind And the rain And the mercy of the fallen Who say, "Hey, it's not my place To know what's right" There's the weak And the strong And the many stars that guide us We have some of them inside us

  Dar Williams

  Strong, Stars, Rain

  Song: Mercy Of The Fallen, Album: The Beauty of the Rain

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• Because of their excessive commitment to a literal Bible, fundamentalist Christians have fallen into the trap of biblioltry.

  Mel White

  Christian, Commitment, Notable

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