Quotes About Isaac

The prelude involves a series of vilenesses and delusions, from the seduction of Lot by both his daughters to the marriage of Abraham to his stepsister, the birth of Isaac to Sarah when Abraham was a hundred years old, and many other credible and incredible rustic crimes and misdemeanors.

'Anthem' was the record that almost didn't get made for a completely different reason than 'Underneath.'

The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent.

Isaac Asimov's Foundation

American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Sol Weintraub suddenly understood perfectly why Abraham had agreed to sacrifice Isaac, his son, when the Lord commanded him to do so. It was not obedience. It was not even to put the love of God above the love of his son. Abraham was testing God. By denying the sacrifice at the last moment, by stopping the knife, God had earned the right—in Abraham's eyes and the hearts of his offspring—to become the God of Abraham. Sol

Isaac liked the idea of an inter-aspectual entity so enamored with knowledge that it just roamed from realm to realm in a bath, murmuring with interest at everything it came across.

Outside the wind had picked up a little. Isaac sheltered his prize and walked quickly up the little alley that adjoined The Dying Child with Paddler Way and his workshop-home. He pushed open the green doors with his bum and backed into the building. Isaac's laboratory had been a factory and a warehouse years ago, and its huge, dusty floorspace swamped the little benches and retorts and blackboards that perched in its corners.

Isaac could see how the feathers of the face were shoved ruthlessly into the skin, doubtless bonded subcutaneously to make removal too agonizing to consider. He imagined the process of insertion, one by torturing one.

Isaac liked the idea of an inter-aspectual entity so enamoured with knowledge that it just roamed from realm to realm in a bath, murmuring with interest at everything it came across.

Long before Abraham's servant traveled to Mesopotamia, God had appointed Rebekah to be the bride of Isaac. "The angel of the LORD will direct you," Abraham told the servant. "He'll lead you to the one.

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Isaac, everything to do with women is foolish and, therefore, absolutely essential.

Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?

And have you ever run across a bright and enlivening sun in Gogol—a man from Ukraine?

Her sponge cakes had the aroma of crucifixion.Within them was the sap of slyness and the fragrant frenzy of the Vatican.

As to there ever being a great military organization under him, the thing is absurd.

But on 1 March 1881 the conspirators succeeded in assassinating the Tsar. To

O Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!

This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an extravagant freak and so prejudice my Readers against all those things which were the main designe of the book.

Gravity must be caused by an Agent acting constantly according to certain laws; but whether this Agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the Consideration of my readers.

We were straightfacedly told that, to understand the Phenomenology and the Encyclopædia, we had to go back to Abraham, Isaac, and the desert. Today it is all too obvious this sort of exegesis was merely a manoeuvre.

Therefore is every sincere comer to Jesus Christ called also a child of the promise. "Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise," (Galatians 4:28); that is, we are the children that God hath promised to Jesus Christ, and given to him; yea, the children that Jesus Christ hath promised shall come to him. "All that the Father giveth me shall come.

Interviewed on the David Letterman show in October 1980, famed science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov exclaimed, "I enjoyed The Empire Strikes Back so much that when they finished it, I jumped up in my seat and yelled, 'Start the third part!' I figure at the rate they're going, they'll do the last few after I'm dead, which doesn't strike me as fair." (Asimov passed away in 1992.)