Quotes about Disintegration
Without purpose, the days would have ended, as such days always end, in disintegration.
- Dale Carnegie
In our spiritual disintegration we may not be able to rule the earth, but we now have the power several times over to ruin it utterly.
- Dallas Willard
We all come from divorce. This is an age of divorce. Things that belong together have been taken apart. And you can't put it all back together again. What you can do, is the only thing that you can do. You take two things that ought to be together and you put them together. Two things! Not all things.
- Wendell Berry
When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.
- Mark Twain
Every other institution in society is built on the family. If the family disintegrates, those institutions that depend on strong families will disintegrate as well. Once that happens, there is no law you can pass that will make up for the devastation. There is no program you can institute that will fix what happens to people when a home is shattered. There is no politician you can elect who can bring harmony and social order when the family is decimated.
- Tony Evans
The results of family disintegration are seen all around us. Runaways. Child abuse. Abortions. It is dirty laundry—once hung in the nation's backyard, but now hung shamelessly in front yards —flaunted in headlines and glamorized on television and in films.
- Billy Graham
Sin is very important to the soul because sin is what disintegrates the soul; it's what attacks the soul. Sin kind of is to the soul what cancer is to the body.
- John Ortberg
If you sow the seeds of violence in your struggle, unborn generations will reap the whirlwind of social disintegration.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The downfall of the church will not come from a lack of apologetic teaching; it will come from disintegration of the families in the church.
- Josh McDowell
Because civilizations are finite, in the life of each of them there comes a moment when the center ceases to hold. What keeps them at such times from disintegration is not legions but language.
- Joseph Brodsky
The federal government must and shall quit this business of relief. Continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber.
- Ronald Reagan
There is something very poignant about plastic bags. These lonely plastic bags that gradually disintegrate.
- Bill Bailey