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• It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better for us-oh infinitely better for us-if the serpent had been forbidden

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Apples, Sake

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.

  Charles Lamb

  Marriage, New Year, Years

  Charles Lamb (1840). “The essays of Elia”, p.17

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• An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Atheist, Sin, Holy

  Arthur W. Pink (2001). “A.W. Pink's Studies in the Scriptures - 1930-31, Volume 5 of 17”, p.192, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Here feel we but the penalty of Adam,
  The seasons' difference, as the icy fang
  And churlish chiding of the winter's wind,
  Which, when it bites and blows upon my body,
  Even till I shrink with cold, I smile.

  William Shakespeare

  Winter, Blow, Wind

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 2

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• The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. The Elgin Marbles and a decision of John Marshall are valued for the same reason. What we feel in them is a painstaking submission to facts beyond the author's control, and to ideas imposed on him by his vision. So with Beethoven's Symphonies, with Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations - with any conceivable output of the human mind of which you approve. You love them because you say, These things were not made, they were seen.

  John Jay Chapman

  Character, Men, Ideas

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• None of us makes it through this life without problems and challenges — and sometimes tragedies and misfortunes. After all, in large part we are here to learn and grow from such events in our lives. We know that there are times when we will suffer, when we will grieve, and when we will be saddened. However, we are told, “Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy.” How might we have joy in our lives, despite all that we may face? Again from the scriptures: “Wherefore, be of good cheer, and do not fear, for I the Lord am with you, and will stand by you."

  Thomas S. Monson

  Cheer, Men, Grieving

  "Be of Good Cheer". Talk by Thomas S. Monson, www.lds.org. April 2009.

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

  Herman Bavinck

  Men, Common, Sin

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• It is important to insist on the historical truthfulness of the narrative of the fall of Adam and Eve. Just as the account of the creation of Adam and Eve is tied in with the rest of the historical narrative in the book of Genesis, so also this account of the fall of man, which follows the history of man's creation, is presented by the author as straightforward, narrative history

  Wayne Grudem

  Fall, Book, Men

  Wayne A. Grudem (2012). “Sin and Atonement: A Zondervan Digital Short”, p.9, Zondervan

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• For I have shown from the Scriptures, that no one of the sons of Adam is as to everything, and absolutely, called God, or named Lord. But that He is Himself in His own right, beyond all men who ever lived, God, and Lord, and King Eternal, and the Incarnate Word, proclaimed by all the prophets, the apostles, and by the Spirit Himself, may be seen by all who have attained to even a small portion of the truth. Now the Scriptures would not have testified these things of Him, if, like others, He had been a mere man.

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Jesus, Kings, Son

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• 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

  Charles Hodge

  Two, Principles, Scripture

  Charles Hodge (1872). “Systematic Theology”, p.121

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• It [Adam's act] cast off the authority of God, usurped his prerogative, and gave the mind up to the dominion of natural desire

  John L. Dagg

  Mind, Desire, Dominion

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• Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.

  John Calvin

  Powerful, Christ

  John Calvin (2012). “Commentary on Romans”, p.119, Ravenio Books

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• The Bible is the story of two gardens: Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus took a stand. In the first, God sought Adam. In the second, Jesus sought God. In Eden, Adam hid from God. In Gethsemane, Jesus emerged from the tomb. In Eden, Satan led Adam to a tree that led to his death. From Gethsemane, Jesus went to a tree that led to our life.

  Max Lucado

  Bible, Jesus, Fall

  Max Lucado (2012). “A Gentle Thunder: Hearing God Through the Storm”, p.44, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Being in the nude isn't a disgrace unless you're being promiscuous about it. After all, when God created Adam and Eve, they were stark naked. And in the Garden of Eden, God was probably naked as a jaybird too!

  Bettie Page

  Garden, Eden, Naked

  FaceBook post by Bettie Page from Aug 17, 2012

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• We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute, impoverish, repress, kill, and lie to make money. They throw poor people out of homes, let the uninsured die, wage useless wars for profit, poison and pollute the ecosystem, slash social assistance programs, gut public education, trash the global economy, plunder the U.S. Treasury and crush all popular movements that seek justice for working men and women. They worship money and power.

  Chris Hedges

  Crush, Lying, War

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• A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.

  James Joyce

  Past, Long, Castles

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.835, Delphi Classics

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• The key insight of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is misleadingly simple: if an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will not take place unless both believe they will benefit from it. Most economic fallacies derive from the neglect of this simple insight, from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.

  Milton Friedman

  Party, Believe, Simple

  Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman (1990). “Free to Choose: A Personal Statement”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The most miserable man in the world of those meant for Paradise will be dipped once in Paradise. Then he will be asked, "Son of Adam, did you ever face any misery? Did you ever experience any hardship?" So he will say, "No, by God, O Lord! I never faced any misery, and I never experienced any hardship."

  Muhammad

  Islamic, Son, Men

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• When Eve was brought unto Adam, he became filled with the Holy Spirit, and gave her the most sanctified, the most glorious of appellations. He called, her Eva--that is to say, the Mother of All. He did not style her wife, but simply mother--mother of all living creatures. In this consists the glory and the most precious ornament of woman.

  Martin Luther

  Mother, Wife, Style

  Martin Luther, Jules Michelet (1846). “The Life of Luther”, p.262

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

  J. C. Ryle

  Children, Self, Disease

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