Quotes about Deterioration

As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.

Resentment and anger eat away at love as quickly as rust is corroding that metal lawn chair out there in the backyard. One of life's great tragedies is watching a relationship unravel over something that could've been resolved in one intelligent, adult conversation.

The problem is that God is being dismissed from the culture, and that vacuum is allowing, or is the basis for, the deterioration of society. That is because Christians have not kept Him in the center of the culture.

But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and a rock is dislodged from its place,

So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.

The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.

But if it reappears in the fabric, weave, or knit, or on any leather article, it is spreading. You must burn the contaminated article.

which is a fancy way of saying that nature tends to bring things to disorder.

Seeley was right when he said that "moral deterioration is bound to set in in any subject race".

The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.

The surest poison is time.