Quotes about Decay
Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.
- Matthew 24:28
“Take away the stone,” Jesus said. “Lord, by now he stinks,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man. “It has already been four days.”
- John 11:39
Foreseeing this, David spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that He was not abandoned to Hades, nor did His body see decay.
- Acts 2:31
So also, He says in another Psalm: ‘You will not let Your Holy One see decay.’
- Acts 13:35
For when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep. His body was buried with his fathers and saw decay.
- Acts 13:36
But the One whom God raised from the dead did not see decay.
- Acts 13:37
that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
- Romans 8:21
They will perish, but You remain; they will all wear out like a garment.
- Hebrews 1:11
Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes.
- James 5:2
As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay.
- William Wordsworth
The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.
- Vance Havner
Socrates: "The corruption of the best things are the worst things." Or, "The best, when corrupted, become the worst." As one of your English poets has said, "Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.
- Peter Kreeft