Adam Quotes

• Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.

  Agnes Repplier

  Conversation, Difficult, Has Beens

  "American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier".

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• Through humility, soul-searching, and prayerful contemplation we have gained a new understanding of certain dogmas. The church no longer believes in a literal hell where people suffer. This doctrine is incompatible with the infinite love of God. God is not a judge but a friend and a lover of humanity. God seeks not to condemn but only to embrace. Like the fable of Adam and Eve, we see hell as a literary device. Hell is merely a metaphor for the isolated soul, which like all souls ultimately will be united in love with God.

  Unknown

  Believe, Humility, Judging

  "Doomed to Hell Fire and Damn-the-Nation" by Joanna Perry-Folino, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 30, 2013.

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• The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.

  Elie Wiesel

  Learning, Jewish Tradition, Immortality

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.31, Schocken

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• Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Art, Believe

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• 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 Ant

  Men, Nuclear, Ants

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• 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.

  Carol Gilligan

  Men, Stories, Trouble

  Carol GILLIGAN (2009). “IN A DIFFERENT VOICE”, p.6, Harvard University Press

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• Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

  Mark Twain

  Mistake, Apples, Want

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 2, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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

  Mark Twain

  Mom, Baby, Children

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 4, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, "All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up." And they did.

  Diane Arbus

  Fall, Garden, Eden

  Diane Arbus (2003). “Diane Arbus: revelations”, Random House (NY)

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• Now hear it, O inhabitants of the earth, Jew and Gentile, Saint and sinner! When our father Adam came into the garden of Eden, he came into it with a celestial body, and brought Eve, one of his wives, with him. He helped to make and organize this world. He is Michael, the Archangel, the Ancient of Days! about whom holy men have written and spoken -- He is our Father, and our God, and the only God with whom we have to do. Every man upon the earth, professing Christians or non professing, must hear it, and will know it sooner or later.

  Brigham Young

  Christian, Father, Men

  Brigham Young (1977). “Journal of Discourses”, p.50, Рипол Классик

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• Yes, President Young did teach that Adam was the father of our spirits, and all the related things that the cultists ascribe to him. This [i.e., Brigham Young's teaching on Adam], however, is not true. He expressed views that are out of harmony with the gospel.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Father, Teaching, Views

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• Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.

  Matthew Henry

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  "Happy Spouse-- Happy House: The Best Game Plan for a Winning Marriage" by Pat Williams, Ruth E. Williams, David Wimbish, 2009.

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• Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, 'God is hard to find.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Men, Christian Inspirational, Hiding

  FULTON J. SHEEN (1949). “PEACE OF SOUL”

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• I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

  John Adams

  Education, Philosophy, War

  John Adams (2003). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.264, Penguin

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• When our father Adam came into the garden of Eden, he came into it with a celestial body, and brought Eve, one of his wives, with him.

  Brigham Young

  Father, Garden, Eden

  Brigham Young (1854). “Journal of Discourses”, p.50

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• The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independent of God.

  Bob Jones, Sr.

  Bible, God, Christian

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• 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."

  William Ralph Inge

  Parent, Age, Paradise

  William Ralph Inge (1929). “Labels & Libels”

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• None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

  E. W. Howe

  Funny, Doe, Records

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• It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

  Adam Smith

  Business, Invisible Hand, Government

  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 1, bk. 1, ch. 2 (1776)

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• Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him.

  Helen Rowland

  Food, Men, Offering

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.72, Lulu.com

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• How much unbelief exists in the minds of the Latter-day Saints in regard to one particular doctrine which I revealed to them, and which God revealed to me - namely that Adam is our Father and God-.

  Brigham Young

  Father, Mind, Saint

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

  Mark Twain

  Apples, Want, Sake

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• The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Important, Cameras

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• You don't take a photograph, you make it.

  Ansel Adams

  Inspirational, Photography, Art

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• He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention

  Adam Smith

  Ignorance, Invisible Hand, Hands

  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 2, bk. 4, ch. 2 (1776) See Adam Smith 1

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