Fallen World Quotes

• I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wondering awed about on a splintered wreck I've come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty bats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them.

  Annie Dillard

  Beautiful, Air, Shining

  "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek". Book by Annie Dillard, 1974.

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• I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too.

  Annie Dillard

  Age, Survivor, Done

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.245, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less fallen than they, nor less doomed to live in a fallen world, but by knowing that he is a fallen man in a fallen world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Men, Knowing

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “The World's Last Night: And Other Essays”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you don't keep the eyes of your heart focused on the paradise that is to come, you will try to turn this poor fallen world into the paradise it will never be.

  Paul David Tripp

  Eye, Heart, Trying

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• God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.

  J. I. Packer

  World, Fallen, Comfortable

  J.I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.79, Hachette UK

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• This is a fallen world. People lie, the truth gets distorted, and that's the way it is. What's for dinner ?

  Donna Leon

  Lying, People, Way

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• In a fallen world, if you demand perfection or nothing, you will always get nothing.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Perfection, Demand, Ifs

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• To show mercy is not naïve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It is fundamentally human. Of course... We are all doomed; we are all poisoned from our birth by the rot of stars. That does not mean we should succumb...to the seductive fallacy of despair, the dark tide that would drown us. You may think I'm stupid, you may call me a madman and a fool, but at least I stand upright in a fallen world.

  Rick Yancey

  Stars, Stupid, Mean

  Rick Yancey (2011). “The Isle of Blood”, p.359, Simon and Schuster

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• The biblical picture is not one of an upward, linear progress or a precipitous, downward decline. It is a more complicated picture of a fallen world in which there is a gospel of power.

  Russell D. Moore

  Biblical, Progress, Complicated

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• People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.

  Paul David Tripp

  Struggle, People, Imagination

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• The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon us as sinners. If we could answer it then we would not be sinners. We could make something else responsible...The theological question does not arise about the origin of evil but about the real overcoming of evil on the Cross; it ask for the forgiveness of guilt, for the reconciliation of the fallen world

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Real, Evil, Guilt

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• In a fallen world marked by human depravity and deep-seated sin, in a world where Hitler and Stalin had recruited millions of followers to commit mass murder, love must harness power and seek justice in order to have moral meaning. Love without power remained impotent, and power without love was bankrupt.

  Timothy B. Tyson

  Order, Justice, Followers

  Timothy B. Tyson (2007). “Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story”, p.67, Broadway Books

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• The Bible is clear here: I am to love my neighbor as myself, in the manner needed, in a practical way, in the midst of the fallen world, at my particular point of history. This is why I am not a pacifist. Pacifism in this poor world in which we live -- this lost world -- means that we desert the people who need our greatest help.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Mean, Here I Am, People

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• Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when they are in common.

  R. H. Tawney

  Men, Common, Disputes

  R. H. Tawney (2016). “Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism”, p.39, Verso Books

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• The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it's supposed sophistication, it's cynicism that's simplistic. In a fallen world, how profound is
  to see the cracks?

  Ann Voskamp

  Dark, Profound, Cracks

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• It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.

  Dan Barber

  Sacrifice, Process, World

  "Chef Dan Barber pioneers ethical approach to creating flavor but may prickle some purists". www.foxnews.com. October 10, 2012.

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• In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying.

  Michael Gove

  Perfection, Trying, Achieve

  "'Why should any teacher ever vote Tory?'". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2010.

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• The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it’s supposed sophistication, it’s cynicism that’s simplistic. In a fallen world, how profound is to see the cracks? The sages and prophets, the disciples and revolutionaries, they are the ones up on the ramparts, up on the wall pointing to the dawn of the new Kingdom coming, pointing to the light that breaks through all things broken, pointing to redemption always rising and to the Blazing God who never sleeps.

  Ann Voskamp

  Wall, Sleep, Dark

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• God the Father has reconciled His created but fallen world through the death of His Son, and renews it into a Kingdom of God by His Spirit.

  Herman Bavinck

  Father, Son, Kingdoms

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• Sorrow is God's plowshare that turns up and subsoils the depths of the soul, that it may yield richer harvests. If we had never fallen, or were in a glorified state, then the strong torrents of Divine joy would be the normal force to open up all our souls' capacities; but in a fallen world, sorrow, with despair taken out of it, is the chosen power to reveal ourselves to ourselves. Hence it is sorrow that makes us think deeply, long, and soberly.

  Lettie Cowman

  Strong, Taken, Thinking

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• Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy.

  R. C. Sproul

  Grace, Definitions, Mercy

  R. C. Sproul (2012). “God's Love: How the Infinite God Cares for His Children”, p.120, David C Cook

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• A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death.

  J. R. Moehringer

  Real, Book, World

  J. R. Moehringer (2012). “Sutton”, p.97, Hachette UK

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• When mourning the loss of our departed friends, I cannot help but think that in every death there is a birth; the spirit leaves the body dead to us, and passes to the other side of the veil alive to that great and noble company that are also working for the accomplishment of the purpose of God, in the redemption and salvation of a fallen world.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Friendship, Death, Loss

  Wilford Woodruff (1946). “The Discourses of Wilford Woodruff”

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• While we lament the apparent injustice of pain and suffering, how often do we forget that every good thing in a fallen world is wholly a gift of God's mercy and grace.

  Matt Chandler

  Pain, Grace, Suffering

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• I feel very privileged to hear how somebody used to run around stickin' people up and stealing cars, and now they're gettin' their life back together... I just love the stories. The stories of the fallen world, they excite us. That's the interesting stuff.

  Denis Johnson

  Running, People, Interesting

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