Quotes about Fall
The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’
- Obadiah 1:3
All your fortresses are fig trees with the first ripe figs; when shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater!
- Nahum 3:12
And should any of the families of the earth not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, then the rain will not fall on them.
- Zechariah 14:17
He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed.”
- Matthew 21:44
Then Simeon blessed them and said to His mother Mary: “Behold, this Child is appointed to cause the rise and fall of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be spoken against,
- Luke 2:34
The seeds on rocky ground are those who hear the word and receive it with joy, but they have no root. They believe for a season, but in the time of testing, they fall away.
- Luke 8:13
So He told them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
- Luke 10:18
Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste, and a house divided against a house will fall.
- Luke 11:17
And they were unable to trap Him in His words before the people; and amazed at His answer, they fell silent.
- Luke 20:26
And a certain young man named Eutychus, seated in the window, was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell from the third story and was picked up dead.
- Acts 20:9
How perverse! just when everything seems to be in order and as families gather round the table to have supper,the phantom of the superclass appears,selling impossible dreams:luxury,beauty,power.And the family falls apart
- Paulo Coelho
Men may differ as to the nature and the reach of conversion, but its necessity is established beyond all doubt; the whole of humanity proclaims the truth of the fall.
- Herman Bavinck