Adam And Eve Quotes - Page 4

• When I was 11 years old and I was on a road trip with my family. I turned to my dad and said, "Do you believe in Adam and Eve?" And he said he didn't think so. I remember that felt like a slap in the face, because if my parents questioned Adam and Eve, then they potentially questioned everything within Catholicism. Eventually that idea led to my feeling liberated, but at that time it was very scary.

  Alanis Morissette

  Dad, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Apples, Adam

  "History of the World in Epitome (For Use in Martian Infant Schools)". Book by Bertrand Russell, as quoted in Slater Bertrand Russell (1994), p. 136, 1959.

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• The first narcotics bust in history is Jehovah busting Adam and Eve for eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

  Timothy Leary

  Tree, Jehovah, Fruit

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• Life is a school, a place for us to learn and grow. We, like Adam and Eve, experience 'growing pains' through the sorrow and contamination of a lone and dreary world. These experiences may include sin, but they also include mistakes, disappointments, and the undeserved pain of adversity. The blessed news of the gospel is that the Atonement of Jesus Christ can purify all the uncleanness and sweeten all the bitterness we taste.

  Bruce C. Hafen

  Jesus, Pain, Disappointment

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• Adam and Eve ate the first vitamins, including the package.

  E. R. Squibb

  Healing, Health, Firsts

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• No educated person believes the Adam and Eve myth nowadays, but it's surprising how many parents think that it's somehow fun to pass on this falsehood to their children...I would want to argue that the truth of evolution is more interesting and more poetic

  Richard Dawkins

  Children, Fun, Believe

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• It is quite exciting, incidentally, to know that the Genesis account of the creation of mankind through its first parentage in Adam and Eve bears the marks of derivation from the primary Egyptian symbolic depiction.

  Alvin Boyd Kuhn

  Firsts, Bears, Egyptian

  Alvin Boyd Kuhn (2013). “The Ultimate Canon of Knowledge”, p.20, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man.

  Clarence Darrow

  Believe, Men, Garden

  Clarence Darrow's remarks at a debate with religious leaders in Kansas City, as quoted in a Emanuel Haldeman-Julius' eulogy for Clarence Darrow, 1938.

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• All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; Learn that every Muslim is a brother to every Muslim and that the Muslims constitute one brotherhood. Nothing shall be legitimate to a Muslim which belongs to a fellow Muslim unless it was given freely and willingly. Do not, therefore, do injustice to yourselves.

  Muhammad

  Positive, Brother, Injustice

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• There is no way that you can read the entire Bible seriously and take every word literally. Contradictions start in the first chapter of Genesis. There are two Creation stories, two stories of the making of Adam and Eve. And that is all right. The Bible is still true.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Two, Stories, Way

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• And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.

  St. Jerome

  Fall, Paradise, Married

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.744, Jazzybee Verlag

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• A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it, friends.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Whales, People, Greed

  Kurt Vonnegut's address to the graduating class at Bennington College, 1970.

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• You believe that all humanity came from Adam and Eve, and humans have not evolved at all since. So tell me; between the two of them, which was black, which was white, and which was Asian?

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Two, White

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• I believe in the story [ of Adam and Eve]. For me, it's a story.

  Elie Wiesel

  Believe, Stories, Adam

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• The biggest idea that I have learned - I basically went in to write a book about Adam and Eve, ended up writing a book about love. And what did I learn? Love is a story you tell with another person.

  Bruce Feiler

  Book, Writing, Love Is

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Learning to heal ruptures is a key to having a successful relationship. Adam and Eve model that for all of us. In Hollywood love is a choice, and you live happily ever after. In real life love is a series of choices. You make the choice to be with a person over and over again.

  Bruce Feiler

  Real, Love Life, Successful

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• There seems to me now to be the notion that you send something to a journal or an agent and months go by. It seems to me like that is a new piece of bad manners. Probably. Generally I assume that anything that happens now happened to Adam and Eve also.

  Lore Segal

  Assuming, Manners, Bad Manners

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Isn't the first story told in the West about the Fall? Adam and Eve were immigrants too from somewhere, a lost Eden, a paradise lost. We all now are so mobile, so nomadic .

  Andrew Lam

  Fall, Eden, Stories

  "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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• When God's children disobeyed their heavenly Father, they damaged everything. When Adam and Eve rebelled against the King of the universe, they broke the whole world. This is why there is evil and suffering. Bad things happen in a world that's broken.

  Greg Koukl

  Kings, Children, Father

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Did you get so caught up in the preoccupancy of a relationship that you lost who you were or were busy in life or career that you, like Adam and Eve, got lost in the garden putting fig leaf after fig leaf title, relationship, this accolade, this saying over you that you forgot who you were and what's life's about? So getting back to the core of that and building life by design, that is authentic.

  Paula White

  Garden, Careers, Design

  Source: culteducation.com

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• [The story of Adam and Eve] it's poetry. One must interpret it as poetry. The first 11 chapters of Genesis [the Primeval History] are absolutely remarkable.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Stories, Firsts, Adam

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• The most devastating thing though that biology did to Christianity was the discovery of biological evolution. Now that we know that Adam and Eve never were real people the central myth of Christianity is destroyed. If there never was an Adam and Eve there never was an original sin. If there never was an original sin there is no need of salvation. If there is no need of salvation there is no need of a Savior. And I submit that puts Jesus, historical or otherwise, into the ranks of the unemployed. I think that evolution is absolutely the death knell of Christianity.

  Frank Zindler

  Jesus, Real, Thinking

  "Why evolution hurts the church" by David Catchpoole, creation.com. October 26, 2014.

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• There's a huge amount of work on Adam and Eve, from the ancient world to the present. Saint Augustine was obsessed with them.I don't know if it helps my research, but I get a big kick out of Mark Twain, who wrote "The Diaries of Adam and Eve." He wrote very funny stuff on them. I sometimes read things that are loosely related to what I'm thinking and writing about.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Writing, Thinking, Saint

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• The first command given by God when Adam and Eve were pitched out of the Garden of Eden in the Book of Genesis is, "Be fruitful and multiply, and subdue the Earth." We've been trying to do that for a long time, and now the Earth is fighting back. I'm not sure that we're going to survive as a species.

  John Shelby Spong

  Book, Fighting, Garden

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• We are Adam and Eve born out of chaos called creation Ribbing me gave you life yet you forget there will always be a part of me in you yes I taunted and tempted you with my forbidden fruit does that make me the serpent too? Believe what you will but if I am exiled alone I know we will be together again someday naked without shame in paradise My thanks to you for being in on my sin

  Megan McCafferty

  Believe, Together Again, Doe

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