John Milton Quotes

By that sin fell the angels.

...the fall of man in paradise has always been followed by his expulsion.

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

When God's hand is bent to strike, it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God ; but to fall out of the hands of the living God is a horror beyond our expression, beyond our imagination.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.

Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.

Those who believed in us as the Madhi, and surrendered, have been delivered, and those who did not were destroyed …

We did it just because it was forbidden.

Inciting to revolution is treason, not only against man, but also against God.

A Caliph who disobeyed God deserves to be disobeyed and killed.

[Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon creatures of a day--to you, thief of fire, I speak.

The fall of man stands a lie before Beethoven, a truth before Hitler.

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.

Hell is not filled with people who are deeply sorry for their sins. It is filled with people who for all eternity still shake their puny fist in the face of God Almighty.

But humans disappoint. Adam, in tasting the fruit, indicates that he prefers Eve to God, so God banishes them.

In all the dictatorships, there's such a non-understanding of what human beings are. I mean, if you believe in the Bible, you have the story of Adam and Eve and God tells them, "Do whatever you want. The only thing you shouldn't do is eat the apple." What do they do the first thing? They eat the apple. So if you know a little bit the psychology of human beings, you have to understand that if you say something you should not do, then everybody wants to do it.

He'd been an angel once. He hadn't meant to Fall. He'd just hung around with the wrong people.

And for an apple damn'd mankind.

I've learned a lot about women. I think I've learned exactly how the fall of man occured in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden, and Adam said one day, Wow, Eve, here we are, at one with nature, at one with God, we'll never age, we'll never die, and all our dreams come true the instant that we have them. And Eve said, Yeah... it's just not enough is it?

some angels are destined to fall

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.

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

The allegory of Adam and Eve eating of the tree of evil, and entailing upon their posterity the wrath of God and the loss of everlasting life, admits of no other explanation than the disease and crime that have flowed from unnatural diet.