Fallen World Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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