Quotes about Fall
Make no mistake: if he rose at all It was as His body; If the cell's dissolution did not reverse, the molecule reknit, The amino acids rekindle, The Church will fall.
- John Updike
Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever.
- Anonymous
The mystery of Jesus Christ, for Paul, is that in him is revealed not only the glory of the one creator God but the true glory of humankind, lost at the fall.
- NT Wright
Redemption is as comprehensive as Creation and Fall. God does not save our souls while leaving our minds to function on their own. He redeems the whole person. Conversion is meant to give new direction to our thoughts, emotions, wills and habits.
- Nancy Pearcey
Redemption is as comprehensive as creation or fall.
- Nancy Pearcey
These people make one feel as if a stronger memory of our former innocence remains in them, as if they were a freak of nature, not entirely battered by the Fall. Perhaps they are messengers, like the servants who find a lost prince who's unaware of his origins, show him the robe that he
- Olga Tokarczuk
The Messiah has to fall as low as possible, otherwise he isn't the Messiah.
- Olga Tokarczuk
Another angle, one often taken by Christians in the Eastern Orthodox tradition, is to read the Adam story as being not about a fall down from perfection, but a failure to grow up to godly wisdom and maturity.
- Peter Enns
If a man opens or digs a pit and fails to cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,
- Exodus 21:33
Then Moses and Aaron fell facedown before the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel.
- Numbers 14:5
As for you, however, your bodies will fall in this wilderness.
- Numbers 14:32
For there the Amalekites and Canaanites will face you, and you will fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from the LORD, He will not be with you.”
- Numbers 14:43