Adam Quotes

[On the Adam and Eve story:] They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.

Yes, polygamy is one of the relics of Adam, of Enoch, of Noah, of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob, of Moses, David, Solomon, the Prophets, of Jesus, and his apostles.

It is night, And it is vanity, and age Blackens the heart of Adam. Fear, The yellow chirper, beaks its cage.

One human nature is common to all the descendants of Adam, and it is, for all men, guilty and polluted

If we descended from space aliens, that's just as viable as Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, as far as I'm concerned.

Adam was a super being when God created him...

As we fell in Adam, we are saved in Christ. To deny the principle in the one case, is to deny it in the other; for the two are inseparably united in the representations of Scripture

When Eve upon the first of Men The apple press'd with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not Adamant!

Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.

If you look at the Bible and you look at Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, we all know who sinned first. Ladies, do you have to eat everything?

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

The church is in Christ, as Eve was in Adam.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

And so Adam, in that his speech to Eve, uttered his faith in the promise made to her of her seed, and so in that respect Adam himself came in under her covenant.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

Eve is a life giver; she is Adam's ally. It is to both of them that the charter for adventure is given. It will take both of them to sustain life. And they will both need to fight together.

In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.

It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve - a story which shows among other things, that if you make a woman out of a man, you are bound to get into trouble.

How soon are we broken on the soft pillow of ease! Adam in paradise was overcome, when Job on the dunghill was a conqueror.

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them.

I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.

Adam, who said to Eve, What do you mean you have nothing to wear? Never got a dinner!

I believe ingratitude is the original sin. I believe if Adam and Eve had been grateful for the garden of Eden they had, they would not have been so focused on the one tree they didn't have.

Adam, who said to our Lord in the Garden of Eden, I got more ribs - you got more broads? Never got a dinner!

People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans.

Jesus undid everything that Adam did, and did everything Adam failed to do.

Eve said to the serpent, “You know I could go for a bite to eat, but I don't know you from Adam.”

The Bible never says anything about dinosaurs. You can't say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them. Somebody actually saw Adam and Eve. No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

Adam and Eve were the first of all unions to defy management.

Adam & Eve. The serpent cracked the mirror in a thousand pieces, & the apple was his rock.

Christians have a new identity. We are no longer 'in Adam' but 'in Christ'; no longer in the flesh but in the Spirit.

What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.

Adam was created to be the friend and companion of God, he was to have dominion over all the life in the air and earth and sea, but one thing he was not to have dominion over, and that was himself.

Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.

Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.

Adam was placed in Paradise in perfect estate, and in the company of God's angels; God walked and did talk with him. He heard the voice, and beheld the presence of God.

God didn't give Adam and Eve the right to decide what was good and evil. He gave them the right to choose between good and evil.

The impact of the acute angle of a triangle on a circle produces an effect no less powerful than the finger of God touching the finger of Adam in Michelangelo.

Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful for what God gave.

There is nothing new about humanism. It is the yielding to Satan's first temptation of Adam and Eve: "Ye shall be as gods." (Gen. 3:5)

I believe you are one of the people that can lift the corners of the universe.

The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive.

Our mother Eve, who tasted of the tree, Giving to Adam what she held most dear, Was simply good, and had no power to see.

The curse of Adam and Eve that fell upon the earth because of their sin will be lifted when Christ returns.

When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, "My dear, we live in an age of transition."

I'm lonely like Adam and you're evil like Eve.

We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam.