Quotes on Fallen World

I feel very privileged to hear how somebody used to run around stickin' people up and stealing cars, and now they're gettin' their life back together... I just love the stories. The stories of the fallen world, they excite us. That's the interesting stuff.

People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.

Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy.

God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.

The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon us as sinners. If we could answer it then we would not be sinners. We could make something else responsible...The theological question does not arise about the origin of evil but about the real overcoming of evil on the Cross; it ask for the forgiveness of guilt, for the reconciliation of the fallen world