Quotes About Fallenness

#1. Rembrandt didn't idealize his subjects. He painted what he saw, which was a mixture of glory and fallenness. He was criticized by his contemporaries for using washerwomen as his models rather than women who looked like Greek goddesses.

Steve Turner

#2. Our soul's problem, however, is not its neediness; it's our fallenness. Our need was meant to point us to God. Instead, we fasten our minds and bodies and wills on other sources of ultimate devotion, which the Bible calls idolatry.

John Ortberg

#3. Prayer is in essence rebellion - rebellion against the world in its fallenness. Prayer is the undying refusal to accept as normal what is pervasively abnormal. It is the refusal of every agenda, every scheme, every interpretation that is at odds with the norm as originally established by God.

David G. Wells

#4. You and I must live temptation-aware; to fail to do so is to fail to recognize the fallenness of the world that happens to be the address where we live.

Paul David Tripp

#5. I like people to go away from a Queen show feeling fully entertained, having had a good time.

Freddie Mercury

#6. Before Medicare, nearly half of American seniors were forced to go without coverage because insurance companies were reluctant to insure them - making the chances of having health insurance as a senior the same as getting tails on a coin flip.

John B. Larson

#7. So little knows
Any but God alone to value right
The good before him but perverts best things
To worst abuse or to their meanest use.

John Milton

#8. A fearless person wins half the battle before it begins.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#9. On a surface level, regionalism is gone, if we define regionalism as human culture. But, what if we define regionalism as something older than human culture?

Cynthia Daignault

#10. what fuels human unhappiness in both the personal and political realm can be boiled down to these three key emotions - anxiety, fear, and shame.

Harriet Lerner

#11. The first amazing fact about gravitation is that the ratio of inertial mass to gravitational mass is constant wherever we have checked it. The second amazing thing about gravitation is how weak it is.

Richard P. Feynman