One of the greatest foes of the Christian is religious complacency. . Orthodox Christianity has fallen to its present low estate from lack of spiritual desire. Among the many who profess the Christian faith, scarcely one in a thousand reveals any passionate thirst for God.
The battle is over when the foe has fallen.
During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries.
Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength.
Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.
But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically.
I would ask you to come in Khadi, for Khadi links you with the fallen and the down-trodden.
The number of times I have fallen down is the number of times I have gotten up.
In my case such an expression as 'to be fallen for' or even 'to be loved' is not in the least appropriate; perhaps it describes the situation more accurately to say that I was 'looked after.
Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly.
I was extremely shy and had a terrible fear of public speaking. But I had fallen in love with stand-up.
Worry is a subtle way of telling God that He's fallen asleep at the wheel and that things aren't under His authority, but ours.
Vampires, werewolves, fallen angels and fairies lurk in the shadows, their intentions far from honorable.
A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over. . . is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen seriously in love with writing stories and seeing them go out into the world. It's magical, you know?
It is near thirty years since He made it sure; and since that time, though there has fallen out much sin, yet I was never out of an assurance of mine interest, nor long out of sight of His presence.
If thou least fallen into sin through violent temptations, seek speedily for repentance for it, recovery out of it, and reformation from it.
I had fallen in love with a young man. . . , and we were planning to get married. And then he died of subacute bacterial endocarditis. . . Two years later with the advent of penicillin, he would have been saved. It reinforced in my mind the importance of scientific discovery.
He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth has leavening virtue of its own.
If the present civilisation does not acquire some stable moral fondations ("bases morales stables", Fr. ), its existence will hardly be more assured than that of the civilisations that have preceeded it, and which have fallen (or collapse, or failed
