“ You are only excused for happiness and success if you generously agree to share them. But if one is to be happy, one should not worry too much about other people - which means there is no way out. Hap… Albert Camus
“ I knew a man who gave twenty years of his life to a scatterbrained woman, sacrificing everything to her, his friendships, his work, the very respectability of his life and who one evening recognized t… Albert Camus
“ With every morn my life afresh must breakThe crust of self, gathered about me fresh;That thy wind-spirit may rush in and shakeThe darkness out of me, and rend the meshThe spider-devils spin out of the… George MacDonald
“ There is an old joke that went around- it goes, in the beginning God made man in His own image, and since the fall, man has been seeking to return the compliment. Alistair Begg
“ One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day. Albert Camus
“ The story of the Fall tells us in mythical language that "original sin" is not simply a stigma arbitrarily making good pleasures seem guilty, but a basic inauthenticity, a kind of predisposition to ba… Thomas Merton
“ A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds fleeting like our illusions, the light diminishing like our intellige… Francois Rene De Chateaubriand
“ This world tainted everything it touched, and nothing good was left—could be left – beneath its menacing gaze. Cassandra Giovanni
“ We have no need of God to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men are enough, with our help. Albert Camus
“ The American people spend thousands of dollars to propagate the doctrines of the fall of man, the creation of the world out of nothing in six days by a personal God, vicarious atonement, absolution fr… Virchand Gandhi
“ How blest was the created stateOf man and woman, ere they fell,Compared to our unhappy fate:We need not fear another hell. John Wilmot
“ How many crimes have been committed for no other reason than that the perpetrator could not bear being in the wrong! Albert Camus
“ You have seen what Eblis the accursed has seen, when he said "I am of fire, while Adam is of clay."Cover up the Eblis-like eye for just a moment; how long will you see just the form? How long, indeed,… Jalaluddin Rumi
“ God said to him [Eblis], 'You have become proud.' He replied, 'If I had been with you but a moment my pride would have been justified; I have been with you for centuries. Mansur al-Hallaj
“ We are not only contingent beings, dependent on the love and will of a Creator whom we cannot know experientially except in so far as he reveals to us our personal relationship with him as his sons -… Thomas Merton
“ Known unto God are all His works from the beginning of the world” (Acts 15:18). From the beginning God purposed to glorify Himself “in the Church by Christ Jesus, throughout all ages, world without en… Arthur W. Pink
“ Love hadn’t existed in this world. Only hate, deceit and lies, but by letting him in I’d let all of that crumble.By letting me in he’d done the same, and now we were engaged in an even deadlier game t… Cassandra Giovanni
“ But God does not neglect his lost creature. He plans to re-create his image in man, to recover his first delight in his handiwork. He is seeking in it his own image so that he may love it. But there i… Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“ When Adam ate the irrevocable apple, ThouSaw'st beyond death the resurrection of the dead C.S. Lewis
