Quotes About Cain

They say Cain invented cities. And if it was not he, it was someone else fond of murder.

They say that Cain invented cities. And if it was not he, it was someone else fond of murder.

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I couldn't help thinking how well Cain had prospered after killing his brother: he founded the first city--and, although we don't like to talk about it all that much, we are all his children.

No city, regardless of its charm and wonder, could outshine the shadows of THAT notoriety. No boulevards, no matter how flawless, could make straight a lineage THAT crooked. No city need ever be named Cain to ensure THAT name's preservation for posterity.

Cain lets his gaze rest upon his son. A project of some sort is needed, something to bring them together. After all this time, there is still much they do not know about each other. Too much. And yes, he can hear the malcontent voice in the back of his mind demand, How much can any of us truly know another?

The sentence of the first murderer was pronounced by the Supreme Judge of the universe. Was it death? No, it was life. "A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth;" and "Whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold."

Already there was talk of abortion, which Chesterton described as a "more than usually barbaric form of birth control," which goes against every instinct and "the common conscience of men."88 He said it should be called by its real name: "murder at its worst; not only the brand of Cain but the brand of Herod.

Be grateful for villainy, I thought. The jobs of millions depended on it, Gerard's included. Police, lawyers, tax inspectors, prison warders, court officials, security guards, locksmiths and people making burglar alarms. Where would they be the world over but for the multiple faces of Cain. "Gerard," I said.

I am rather inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain.

And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord and dwelt in the land of Nod on the east of Eden.

them," he said. "The dust is warm," said Samuel. "Now it goes this way. 'And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, "I have gotten a man from the Lord."

As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius.

The fear of murder has grown so enormous in the United States that it leaves a taint, like the mark of Cain, on everyone murder touches.

Grendel was the name of this woe-walker, Unlucky, fucked by Fate. He'd been living rough for years, ruling the wild: the mere, the fen, and the fastness, his kingdom. His creation was cursed under the line of Cain, the kin-killer. The Lord, long ago, had taken Abel's side. Though none of that was Grendel's doing, he'd descended from bloodstains.

(Twain on Cain): it was his misfortune to live in a dark age that knew not the beneficent Insanity Plea.

The nomad had the age-old God-given way of life to offer, the way of Abel. The sons of Cain -for it was Cain who built the first villages -had possessions and power.

Note, Those that depart from God cannot find rest any where else. After Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, he never rested. Those that shut themselves out of heaven abandon themselves to a perpetual trembling. "Return therefore to thy rest, O my soul, to thy rest in God; else thou art for ever restless.

Without a doubt, it [Canada] is the land God gave to Cain.

Then Cain founded a city, which he named Enoch, after his son.

And Adam had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. “With the help of the LORD I have brought forth a man,” she said.

Later she gave birth to Cainís brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, while Cain was a tiller of the soil.

So in the course of time, Cain brought some of the fruit of the soil as an offering to the LORD,

but He had no regard for Cain and his offering. So Cain became very angry, and his countenance fell.