Genesis Quotes
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In contrast with the simplicity and sublimity of Genesis I, we find all ancient cosmogonies, whether it be the Babylonian or the Phœnician, the Greek or the Roman, alike unrelievedly wild, cruel, even foul.
joseph h. hertz— Additional notes to Genesis (p. 193)
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.
God— Genesis 3:19 (KJV)
Well you know,Chris, we've got to give them something Genesis and I think we'll give them this talking shop in Strasbourgthe Council of Europe.
Ernest Bevin— 1948 Comment to Christopher Mayhew. Quoted in Michael Charlton The Price of Victory (1983).
God, in his view, had created a perfect world if the book of Genesis was to be believed and it had been going downhill ever since.
Tom (Thomas Ridley) Sharpe— 1976 Wilt, ch.17.
The entire Bible, viewed as a "divine comedy," is contained within a U-shaped story of this sort, one in which man, as explained, loses the tree and water of life at the beginning of Genesis and gets them back at the end of Revelation.
Northrop Frye— Chapter Seven, p. 169
Well actually the Genesis 8:22 that I use in there is that "as long as the earth remains there will be seed time and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, day and night," my point is, God's still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous.
james inhofe— Tashman, Brian (8 March 2012), "James Inhofe Says the Bible Refutes Climate Change", Right Wing Watch, retrieved on 2012-03-13
Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.
— Letter to artists, 4 April 1999Source: Libreria Editrice Vaticana
Well, creationism , in essence, is believing that the world began as the Bible in Genesis says, that God created the Earth in six days, six 24-hour periods. And there is just as much, if not more, evidence supporting that.
Christine O'Donnell— interview with Miles O'Brien, CNN, 1996-03-30Schwarz, Gabriella (16 September 2010), "O'Donnell questioned evolution", Political Ticker (CNN), retrieved on 2010-10-24 "GOP's Delaware Senate Nominee Christine O'Donnell Not a Big Fan of Evolution", New York Magazine, 15 September 2010, retrieved on 2010-10-24 Posed question: There's a lot of people who would suggest that creationism and evolution are not mutually exclusive. That the big bang— after all, something had to create the big bangs, perhaps some higher being, and there's a tremendous amount of scientific evidence that there was a big bang which started this whole process underway. You can't go along with that?
Theologians are delighted that the astronomical evidence leads to a biblical view of Genesis but curiously, astronomers are upset.
— Robert Jastrow, quoted in the article Does God Really Exist?, in The Watchtower magazine, published by Jehovah's Witnesses, february 15, 1981.
[Big Bang theory] suggested that matter and motion originated rather as Genesis [in the Bible] suggests, ex nihilo, out of nothing, in a stupendous explosion of light and energy.
— Newsweek magazine of November 9, 1998.
"Elohim," the name for the creative power in Genesis, is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian theologians have all explained as merely grammatical convention. The King James and most other Bibles translate it as "God," but if you take the grammar literally, it seems to mean "goddesses." Al Shaddai, god of battles, appears later, and YHWH, mispronounced Jehovah , later still.
— Robert Anton Wilson, in Everything Is Under Control : Conspiracies, Cults, and Cover-Ups (1998), Genesis, p. 197
We read - in the second chapter of the book of Genesis, "that the Lord formed man of the dust of the ground; and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." Now this expression, being used with reference to man only, and to no other living animal, implies the divine afflation of a spiritual intelligence, superinduced upon that principle of vitality, which is common to man, and to the whole animal
— Johnson Grant (1828) The last things; Lent lectures. p.66
Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.
— Letter to artists, 4 April 1999
— Source: Libreria Editrice Vaticana
" Elohim ," the name for the creative power in Genesis , is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian theologians have all explained as merely grammatical convention. The King James and most other Bibles translate it as " God ," but if you take the grammar literally, it seems to mean "goddesses." Al Shaddai, god of battles, appears later, and YHWH , mispronounced Jehovah , later still.
— Robert Anton Wilson, in Everything Is Under Control (1998) "Genesis", p. 197
You may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day which we never sanctify.
— Cardinal James Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers (1917 edition), p. 72-73 (16th Edition, p 111; 88th Edition, p. 89).
When I saw that Moses’ version of the Genesis of the world did not fit sufficiently in many ways with Aristotle and the rest of the philosophers, I began to have doubts about the truth of all philosophers and started to investigate the secrets of nature.
— Gerardus Mercator, Evangelicæ Historiæ: Quadripartita Monas Sive Harmonia Quatuor Evangelistarum ("Harmonization of the Gospels") (1592), dedicatory letter. Quoted in Jean Van Raemdonck, Gerard Mercator: sa vie et ses oeuvres (1869), p. 25, footnote 2
[Kirk: If we don't help each other, we'll die here.] Perfect. Then that's the way it shall be. Give me Genesis!
— Who: Commander Kruge
— Kruge and Kirk are engaged in hand-to-hand combat on the Genesis Planet, as it slowly disintegrates around them; Kirk then pushes Kruge off a cliff into a river of lava.
And the dove came to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
Bible (Old Testament)— Genesis 8:11.
If one had to single out the most revolutionary novelty furnished by Qumran, its contribution to our understanding of the Genesis of Jewish literary compositions could justifiably be our primary choice.
geza vermes— Introduction, p.23
[According to Habermas, the Genesis of the bourgeois public sphere resulted from a combination of early capitalist commercial development and the organization of territorial ... Representative publicness involved a re-presenting or staging for the purposes of display and acclamation, hence] this publicness (or publicity) of representation was not constituted as a social realm, that is, as a public sphere; rather, it was something like a status attribute, if this term may be permitted.
jürgen habermas— p.7 as cited in: Benedetto Fontana, Cary J. Nederman, Gary Remer (2004) Talking Democracy: Historical Perspectives on Rhetoric and Democracy. p.222
The first kind of evil is that which is caused to man by the circumstance that he is subject to Genesis and destruction, or that he possesses a body.
maimonides— Ch.12 (Part III)
In accordance with the divine wisdom, Genesis can only take place through destruction, and without destruction of the individual members of the species the species themselves would not exist permanently. Thus the true kindness, and beneficence, and goodness of God is clear.
maimonides— Ch.12 (Part III)
I speculate that the Genesis of the chicken-joke lies in some situation such as the one illustrated above, but over time the original context of the joke was lost, which left the chicken sadly decontextualized.
ryan north— Explaining jokes
There is little mysticism without an element of transcendence, and conversely, there is no transcendence without a certain degree of egocentrism. It may be that the Genesis of these experiences is to be sought in the unique situation of the very young child in relation to adults. The theory of the filial origin of the religious sense seems to us singularly convincing in this connection.
jean piaget— Ch. 2 : Adult Constraint and Moral Realism
Ethiopia has always held a special place in my own imagination and the prospect of visiting attracted me more strongly than a trip to France, England and America combined. I felt I would be visiting my own Genesis, unearthing the roots of what made me an African. Meeting the emperor himself would be like shaking hands with history.
— Nelson Mandela, on a 1961 conference held in Ethiopia, as quoted in Rivonia Unmasked (1965) by Strydom Lautz, p. 108; also in ?Rolihlahla Dalibhunga Nelson Mandela : An Ecological Study? (2002), by J. C. Buthelezi, p. 172
There is little mysticism without an element of transcendence, and conversely, there is no transcendence without a certain degree of egocentrism . It may be that the Genesis of these experiences is to be sought in the unique situation of the very young child in relation to adults. The theory of the filial origin of the religious sense seems to us singularly convincing in this connection.
— Jean Piaget, in The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932), Ch. 2 : Adult Constraint and Moral Realism
" Elohim ," the name for the creative power in Genesis , is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian theologians have all explained as merely grammatical convention. The King James and most other Bibles translate it as " God ," but if you take the grammar literally, it seems to mean " goddesses ." Al Shaddai, god of battles, appears later, and YHWH , mispronounced Jehovah , later still.
robert anton wilson— Genesis, p. 197
