Quotes about Decay
There is something very poignant about plastic bags. These lonely plastic bags that gradually disintegrate.
- Bill Bailey
Surely revival delays because prayer decays.
- Leonard Ravenhill
What are You, my God? I thought angrily. How do You compare to this stricken mass gathered to affirm to You their faith, their anger, their defiance? What does Your grandeur mean, Master of the Universe, in the face of all this cowardice, this decay, and this misery? Why do you go on troubling these poor people's wounded minds, their ailing bodies?
- Elie Wiesel
The woods decay, the woods decay and fall,The vapors weep their burthen to the ground,Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath,And after many a summer dies the swan.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
It is the little rift within the lute,That by and by will make the music mute,And ever widening slowly silence all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.
- Paul Tillich
When learning stops, decay sets in.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.
- John Henry Newman
The surest poison is time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
From the views I have already expressed, you will infer the sad conviction, which I share, I believe, with numbers, of the universal decay and now almost death of faith in society. The soul is not preached. The Church seems to totter to its fall, almost all life extinct. On this occasion, any complaisance would be criminal which told you, whose hope and commission it is to preach the faith of Christ, that the faith of Christ is preached. It
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pleasure that profanes is pleasure that destroys.
- Ravi Zacharias
Public virtue is the vital spirit of republics, and history proves that when this has decayed and the love of money has usurped its place, although the forms of free government may remain for a season, the substance has departed forever.
- James Buchanan