Fallen Creatures Quotes

#1. We are all fallen creatures and all very hard to live with.

C.S. Lewis

#2. Comedy mocks the vanity of visions of rational control. The person who can joke amidst a confrontation with evil, like the quick-witted Spider-Man, must be reconciled to the permanent imperfections of a corrupted world populated by fallen creatures.

Peter Leithart

#3. Evil and suffering are real ... They aren't an illusion, nor are they simply an absence of good. We are fallen creatures living in a fallen world that has been twisted and corrupted by sin, and we all share in its brokenness. Most of all, we share in its tragic legacy of disease and death.

Billy Graham

#4. If the Earth were as old as a person, a typical organism would be born, live and die in a sliver of a second. We are fleeting, transitional creatures, snowflakes fallen on the hearth fire.

Carl Sagan

#5. Some lives are tragic, some ridiculous. Most are both at once.

Edward Abbey

#6. We should not view men with a cynical eye, seeing them only as meaningless products of chance, but, on the other hand, we should not go to the opposite extreme of seeing them romantically. To do either is to fail to understand who men really are
creatures made in the image of God but fallen.

Francis Schaeffer

#7. If this cursed and fallen world
holds such beauty as what I see,
Imagine the beauty of paradise
that's gladly waiting for me.

Joyce Rachelle

#8. So, to their own unutterable torment, they go about among their fellow-creatures, looking pure as new-fallen snow, while their hearts are all speckled and spotted with iniquity of which they cannot rid themselves.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#9. Once again, the show became life imitating art, imitating life, because we went in with this whole boxing thing - you're down but not out, and no matter what's happening in your life, you keep fighting.

Jennifer Lopez

#10. Like a work of art, we exceed our materials. Science needs art to frame the mystery, but art needs science so that not everything is a mystery. Neither truth alone is our solution, for our reality exists in plural

Jonah Lehrer

#11. I was married once before, and I stopped.

Marc Maron

#12. The secret strength of a nation is found in the faith that abides in the hearts and homes of the country.

Billy Graham

#13. Dad scowls. "Phen." He says the name like it's a swear word. "Disgusting, cowardly creatures, the ambivalent. Worse than the fallen, in many ways." His eyes are so fierce it's a tad scary. "They have no conviction at all.

Cynthia Hand

#14. if we have fallen so far as to need an avatar, an undeniable manifestation of a god, to show us our way, then we are pitiful creatures indeed.

R.A. Salvatore

#15. I keep telling you we have no reason to rush. Modern creatures are always in such a hurry," Matthew murmured, drawing the fallen sheet down to my waist. "Call me old-fashioned if you'd like, but I want to enjoy every moment of our courtship.

Deborah Harkness

#16. Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.

Ralph Marston