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One of the things I love about our source text as Christians, the Bible, is that it teaches us not to avoid conflict. And it teaches us that before the fall of man, in Paradise, there was conflict. God wants conflict to be a part of your life. -- Donald Miller
The fall of man stands a lie before Beethoven, a truth before Hitler. -- Gregory Corso
...the fall of man in paradise has always been followed by his expulsion. -- Adolf Hitler
The only real fall of man is his noneucharistic life in a noneucharistic world. -- Alexander Schmemann
Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up. -- Henry David Thoreau
The fall of man did not introduce evil; it placed us on the wrong side of it, under its rule, needing rescue. -- N.D. Wilson
Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings. -- William Shakespeare
The fall of man is written in too legible characters not to be understood: Those that deny it, by their denying, prove it. -- George Whitefield
The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Marx was wrong; jealousy and pride, emotional forces, are just as responsible as hunger and necessity for our actions; they explain the whole of History, and the initial fall of man -- Eugene Ionesco
When I was in love there was somebody in the world who was more important than me, and that, given all that happened at the fall of man, is a miracle, like something God forgot to curse. -- Donald Miller
I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32. -- Kristin Scott Thomas
Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands. -- Jerry Lewis
I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable. -- Ben Kingsley
Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime. -- Michael Ramsey
This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all. -- Lord Byron
The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments. -- Arthur Middleton
The Reader' is about a young man's experience of falling in love with somebody who, it turns out, made some choices that were unavoidable in her life that resulted in horrific crimes against humanity. -- Kate Winslet
I never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped. -- Karl Lagerfeld
For women of a certain age, how do you meet a guy, fall in love, and decide he's the right man to have children with? Your clock's ticking, you're looking at him, and it's a crazy, pressure-filled experience. -- Marcia Cross
It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
You're in good spirits when you create and produce great music. All situations inspire music in different ways, man, from good situations, bad situations, depression, falling in love, falling out of love. I've been going through all those type of things. -- Big Sean
I'm glad I dropped out of high school, man. I wouldn't be where I'm at. I would have had a net. I'm glad I didn't have anything to fall back on, man, because that made me go for my dreams that much harder. -- Tracy Morgan
It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The one image that's been causing a lot of discussion is one image that I shot of a man falling head-first from the building, before the buildings fell down. He was trapped in the fire, and decided to jump and take his own life, rather than being burned. -- Richard Drew
The world of Manhattan is small and tightly knit, and the man on top retains a certain humility. He knows how far and fast he can fall by looking at the guy across the street. The view from the $250,000 apartment covers a lot of ground, most of it condemned. -- Herb Caen
If he didn't fall in love he would have never come back near the end of the film. Because, what man is going to dishonor himself so that he comes back in front of the man that took a woman away from him... and warns her to save her life? -- Rod Steiger
Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming. -- Brennan Manning
It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel. -- Ben Harper
Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means. -- P. T. Barnum
Love: woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall. -- Helen Rowland
A man that is down doesn't fear to fall. -- Matthew Ashimolowo
All things do help the unhappy man to fall. -- John Webster
Man's will and God's grace rise and fall together -- Evelyn Underhill
The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there. -- Vince Lombardi
A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything. -- Malcolm X
In every fall, clever man discovers the secrets of further rising! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
No man can fall into contempt but those who deserve it. -- Samuel Johnson
Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. -- Gerard Manley Hopkins
Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love. -- Ovid
How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall. -- Edmund Spenser
That which a man spits against heaven, shall fall back on his own face. -- Thomas Adams
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff. -- Ambrose Bierce
History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time. -- Henry Miller
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. -- John F. Kennedy
The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff. -- Ambrose Bierce
What is man? Ally of God or simply his toy? His triumph or his fall? -- Elie Wiesel
Don't cry for a man who's left you--the next one may fall for your smile. -- Mae West
Don't fall in love with your leading man. Of course, that's just what I did. -- Claire Trevor
A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back. -- Raymond Chandler
It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is. -- Josh Billings
What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering? -- Cormac McCarthy
Do you think a man is the only creature with whom one may fall in love? -- Mary MacLane
Opportunities ... fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them. -- Samuel Smiles
I'm open to love, and I think that I will fall in love with a wonderful man. -- Isabel Allende
Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body. -- Rainbow Rowell
A man who can be entertaining for a full day will be in his grave by night-fall. -- Edward Dahlberg
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead. -- Lucille Ball
A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
He was the kind of man everyone would fall in love with, even if they didn't want to. -- Nicholas Sparks
Pick a man, any man. Every guy I fall for becomes Jesus Christ within the first twenty four hours... -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
Cursed is the man who ceaselessly loves without fear - He will inevitably fall in love with the devil. -- Victor L Guerrero
It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it. For art sings of God, and ultimately belongs to Him. -- Patti Smith
I fall in love with Britain every day, with bridges, buses, blue skies... but it's a brutal world, man. -- Pete Doherty
Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges. -- Camille Paglia
You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall. -- George R. R. Martin
Oh, Mama was a smart woman. It takes a smart woman to fall in love with a good man. -- Sarah Louise Delany
Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall. -- Plutarch
A man can fall many times in life, but he's never a failure until he refuses to get back up. -- Evel Knievel
Your only gain is to try to get me to fall down to your level. Man, you worser than devils. -- Snoop Dogg
O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall! -- John Donne
Had I managed to fall into some sort of carnivorous plant? Yeah, bleed on the man-eating plant. Always a good plan. -- Diana Rowland
Men tend to fall in love when they feel like they are cherished or revered as the 'man' in the relationship. -- Sherry Argov
The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We always fall in love with a story, not a name or a body but what is inscribed in the man. -- Susana Fortes
I almost broke my coccyx on 'The Wolf Man', and I banged my head once. I had to fall really hard. -- Emily Blunt
I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man. -- Rachel Hunter
A good man may fall, but he falls like a ball [and rebounds]; the ignoble man falls like a lump of clay. -- Bhartrhari
I'm never satisfied, man. I'm Virgo. We overanalyze and we're never satisfied. So I'm gonna keep going 'til the wheels fall off. -- Wale
I almost broke my coccyx on 'The Wolf Man,' and I banged my head once. I had to fall really hard. -- Emily Blunt
I think the fall from the farmer to the operative as great and memorable as that from the man to the farmer. -- Henry David Thoreau
I'm the fortieth ugliest man in this bar. But so what! So what!... Isn't this how people used to fall in love? -- Gary Shteyngart
Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage , he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. -- Helen Rowland
I never met the second happiest man, or the first happiest man, so I can't judge where I fall into that category. -- Jamie Farr
Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines. -- James Lane Allen
Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with. -- Woody Allen
Man may live and man may die searching for the question why. But if he tries to rule the sky, he must fall. -- Cat Stevens
Let your tears fall because of sin, but, at the same time, let the eye of faith steadily behold the Son of man. -- Charles Spurgeon
The hardest thing any man can do is to fall down on the ice when it's slippery, and get up and praise the Lord. -- Josh Billings
You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything You've got to be your own man, not a puppet on a string -- Aaron Tippin
I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees. -- Maya Angelou
Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind. -- Plato
Unhappiness doesn't grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won't fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man's doing. -- Bertolt Brecht
There are some moments in man's life that looking back might cause him fall into the precipice! At those moments, man must just look forward! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
However low he may fall, a man can never deny himself the delight of feeling cleverer, more powerful or even better fed than his companions. -- Maxim Gorky
I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery. -- John Kennedy Toole
By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through a woman [Mary]. -- Saint Augustine
No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
When you start to fall, don't try to talk yourself out of it. The right man will be there at the bottom, to catch you. -- Julie Johnson
Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good. -- Margaret Haddix
Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy. -- William Golding
You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
We say here that if you fall down in the United States, the ambulance man must feel for your wallet before he feels for your pulse -- George Galloway
I don't fall into the physical manifestation of a man of letters. So I guess people assume the scripts are delivered to me under the door. -- Sylvester Stallone
We say here that if you fall down in the United States, the ambulance man must feel for your wallet before he feels for your pulse. -- George Galloway
With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool of himself. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Not every man can carry a full cup. Sudden elevation frequently leads to pride and a fall. The most exacting test of all to survive is prosperity. -- Oswald Chambers
Only when a man sees this universe as God does the veil fall from his eyes; then that man, purified and cleansed, finds his whole vision changed. -- Swami Vivekananda
Man-like is it to fall into sin, Fiend-like is it to dwell therein; Christ-like is it for sin to grieve, God-like is it all sin to leave. -- Friedrich von Logau
The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God. -- Cyril Connolly
If a man teach uprightly and walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in the day of his doctrine. -- John Owen
when you fall in love, you must fall in love with a man the way he is now, because marriage won't change anything, except maybe your tax deduction. -- Kathie Lee Gifford
Why would a man need both a wife and a mistress? A smart man would seek out and fall in love with a woman who can play both. -- Brenda Jackson
The world is full of women, and the women full of wile; so that a man, if he goeth not warily withal, shall surely fall a prey thereunto. -- Gelett Burgess
Most films seem to be about a man and a women falling in love at some point and once you pass forty-five, it's almost disgusting to fall in love. -- Kristin Scott Thomas
I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equated with his fall. -- Isaac Deutscher
When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like. -- Joseph Addison
The death of a man is like the fall of a mighty nation That had valiant armies, captains, and prophets, And wealthy ports and ships all over the seas. -- Czeslaw Milosz
I have this helicopter crash, and I fall in love with this man who was in the crash with me. I must have been suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome. -- Christie Brinkley

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