Quotes About Adam

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.

It's perhaps significant that God declares His completed Creation "very good" and that Adam is an afterthought, his goodness unspecified.

It is not at all peculiar to contemporary man to "come of age"; it was found already in Eden. Adam and Eve revolted against the will of God in pursuit of individual preference and self-interest. But their revolt was recognized to be sin, not rationalized as philosophical "gnosis" at the frontiers of evolutionary advance.

Mormon principles that had been forsaken by the modern LDS Church: plural marriage; the tenet that God and Adam, the first man, were one and the same; and the divinely ordained supremacy of the white race.

Feedback is an engineering principle, Adam's email to me ended. 'And all engineering is devoted to trying to keep the thing you are building stable.

he'd recited the words that Adam speaks to Eve after she's eaten the forbidden fruit. Adam is still unfallen but determined to share Eve's fate.

The first man and woman knew it all; they had pure and uncorrupted natural knowledge, before they tasted the forbidden fruit and were thrown out of Paradise. Adam and Eve enjoyed not only perfect knowledge but perfect power; and there was no death in the world. Once we recover what our First Parents knew, we will conquer death again.

The Moon There is such loneliness in that gold. The moon of the nights is not the moon Who the first Adam saw. The long centuries Of human vigil have filled her With ancient lament. Look at her. She is your mirror.

The moon of the nights is not the moon Who the first Adam saw. The long centuries Of human vigil have filled her With ancient lament. Look at her. She is your mirror. — Jorge Luis Borges, "The Moon," Jorge Luis Borges: Selected Poems , edited by Alexander Coleman (Penguin, 1999)

Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.

Thus, the Earth was once a jungle world, a sweltering hothouse planet devoid of snow.

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he'd helped kidnap. Next to Mayumi Nota, the girl from

when his airplane stopped briefly at Lydda airport in 1951.

Some men so needfully require complication, they find themselves defending their enemies.

The big secret of TextBlock is that its Text property (of type string) is not its content property.

Is there a short-eared koobish, then?' Mmmyes ...' said J.Lo. 'But it is technically not really a koobish. Is more alike a kind of singing pumpkin.' We had conversations like these all the time, where I just eventually gave up.

Antislavery, rather than slavery, was the world-historical innovation of the era.

SECRET PIZZA PARTY! Oops, I said that kind of loud. Sorry, pizza smell gives me the happy screams.

Adam was the luckiest of men; he had no mother-in-law.

The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.

From the time of Adam and Eve, man has tried to escape suffering in any form.

Then Adam received some words [of prayer] from his Lord and He accepted his repentance. He is the Forgiving One, the Merciful.