Quotes about Reversal
But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.
— Matthew 19:30
And it happened to us just as he had interpreted: I was restored to my position, and the other man was hanged.”
— Genesis 41:13
But when it came before the king, he commanded by letter that the wicked scheme which Haman had devised against the Jews should come back upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
— Esther 9:25
“It is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps,” answered Hezekiah, “but not for it to go back ten steps.”
— 2 Kings 20:10
Second-degree faith is resurrection faith. It's a faith that refuses to put periods at the end of disappointments. It's a faith that believes that God can reverse the irreversible.
— Mark Batterson
No, insists Paul, once you learn the meaning of the gospel, you have to see everything inside out.
— NT Wright
But in the areas that matter most, a burst of energy and activity cannot reverse the consequences that accompany a season of neglect.
— Andy Stanley
Thus Jeremiah was to say to Baruch: “This is what the LORD says: Throughout the land I will demolish what I have built and uproot what I have planted.
— Jeremiah 45:4
Reality rebounds, and things turn out the opposite of what they seem and what people expect. Strength becomes weakness; love becomes pornography; pleasure becomes boredom; and so on.
— Os Guinness
When Joseph saw that his father had placed his right hand on Ephraim’s head, he was displeased and took his father’s hand to move it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s.
— Genesis 48:17
So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”
— Matthew 20:16
But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.”
— Mark 10:31