We shrink from the contemplation of our dead bodies, forgetting that when dead they are no longer ours, and concern us as little as the hairs that have fallen from our heads.
With Congress and the S. E. C. so heavily peopled by lawyers, and with lawyers having been so heavily involved in drafting financial disclosure documents now seen as bogus, there was a new "lawyer" joke every week. One such was: "The butcher says 'the reputation of lawyers has fallen dramatically', and the check-out clerk replies: "How do you fall dramatically off a pancake?
. . . because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man.
The plan of salvation could not be brought about without an atonement. . . The atoning sacrifice had to be carried out by the sinless Son of God, for fallen man could not atone for his own sins. The Atonement had to be infinite and eternal to cover all men throughout all eternity. Through His suffering and death, the Savior atoned for the sins of all men. His Atonement began in Gethsemane and continued on the cross and culminated with the Resurrection.
During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries.
I had lost my mind and fallen into my heart.
You can't jump off a cliff when you have already fallen off a bigger one.
And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.
No country has ever fallen while it was truly honoring the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.
So too, since Christ has in principle defeated the fallen "gods" (principalities and powers) who have for ages inspired injustice, cruelty and apathy toward the weak, the poor the oppressed and the needy (Ps. 82), the church can hardly carry out its role in manifesting, on earth and in heaven, Christ's victory over these gods without taking up as a central part of its missions just these causes. We can, in truth, no more bifurcate social concerns and individual salvation than we can bifurcate the cosmic and anthropocentric dimensions of Christ's work on the cross.
The blight of futility that lies in wait for men's speeches had fallen upon our conversation and made it a thing of empty sounds.
The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
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.
The call of repentance is for the righteous and unrighteous, the godly and ungodly alike. If the righteous had been the lights they were called to be, the nation would never have fallen as it did.
She closed her eyes, dark-lidded, dark shadows beneath them; she really was older, not the glancing-eyed girl I had fallen in love with but no less beautiful for that; beautiful now in a way that less excited my senses than tore at my very heart.
I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength
Kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.
In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces. By improvising, you'll create something magical that might be the best thing you've ever accomplished
Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it. . . They are too many for us. Everything lost in Richmond, even our archives. Blue-black is our horizon.