Quotes about Reversal
You have turned things upside down, as if the potter were regarded as clay. Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, “He did not make me”? Can the pottery say of the potter, “He has no understanding”?
— Isaiah 29:16
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
So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen,” He said.
— Amos 7:3
But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.
— Matthew 19:30
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
And indeed, some who are last will be first, and some who are first will be last.”
— Luke 13:30
He chose the lowly and despised things of the world, and the things that are not, to nullify the things that are,
— 1 Corinthians 1:28
They only heard the account: “The man who formerly persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.”
— Galatians 1:23
Instead, in a stunning reversal, Jesus instructed us to pray, "Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us." At the center of the Lord's Prayer, which Jesus taught us to recite, lurks the unnatural act of forgiveness.
— Philip Yancey
Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.
— Maya Angelou
It should be the other way around.
— Dale Carnegie