Quotes about Downfall

If the very downfall of humanity was caused when Eve surrendered to a temptation to eat something she wasn't supposed to eat, I do think our struggles with food are important to God.

Obviously, the core of Eve's temptation was she wanted to be like God, knowing good and evil. But we can't ignore the fact that the serpent used food as a tool in the process. If the very downfall of humanity was caused when Eve surrendered to a temptation to eat something she wasn't supposed to eat, I do think our struggles with food are important to God.

How are the mighty fallen!

Awake, arise, or be for ever fall'n.

Till pride and worse ambition threw me down Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King:

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.

He has gone to the demnition bowwows.

The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.

Strength in the wrong place is weakness. That's true of anyone's gift. If you're not using your greatest asset in the right way, it's a weakness. Your greatest strength might be your undoing

You who occupy the mountain summit, though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring you down. Jeremiah 49:16

Sin pulls a man down into despondency and despair.