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“They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld
Of Paradise, so late their happy seat,
Waved over by that flaming brand, the gate
With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms:
Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon;
The world was all before them, where to choose
Their place of rest, and Providence their guide;
They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow,
Through Eden took their solitary way.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“When I was in love there was somebody in the world who was more important than me, and that, given all that happened at the fall of man, is a miracle, like something God forgot to curse.”
― Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

“Thus it shall befall Him, who to worth in women over-trusting, Lets her will rule: restraint she will not brook; And left to herself, if evil thence ensue She first his weak indulgence will accuse.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“The fall of humanity was the fall from the actual to the symbolic. Language abstracts us from the real world; keeping us from direct, intuitive perception. Words, like the ego, are merely guides. Don’t mistake them for the real thing. Pull aside the filthy curtains of the social. Language makes an enigma of simple existence; it obscures the true nature of reality and of your self.”
― Tony Vigorito

“Is it true that man was once perfectly pure and innocent, and that he became degenerate by disobedience? No. The real truth is, and the history of man shows, that he has advanced. Events, like the pendulum of a clock have swung forward and backward, but after all, man, like the hands, has gone steadily on. Man is growing grander. He is not degenerating. Nations and individuals fail and die, and make room for higher forms. The intellectual horizon of the world widens as the centuries pass. Ideals grow grander and purer; the difference between justice and mercy becomes less and less; liberty enlarges, and love intensifies as the years sweep on. The ages of force and fear, of cruelty and wrong, are behind us and the real Eden is beyond. It is said that a desire for knowledge lost us the Eden of the past; but whether that is true or not, it will certainly give us the Eden of the future.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses

“It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized.”
― Brian Herbert, House Atreides

“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 from sin by the shedding of innocent blood. This is the Christianity offered to the poor and illiterate of India...

Christianity has percolated through the layers of dogmatism and bigotry, of intolerance and superstition, of damnation and hell fire. It takes on itself the quality of these layers and imparts them to those that are received within its folds.”
― Virchand Gandhi, The Monist

“And this is the unwritten history of man, his unseen, negative accomplishment, his power to do without gratification for himself provided there is something great, something into which his being, and all beings can go.
He does not need meaning as long as such intensity has scope.
Because then it is self-evident; it is meaning.”
― Saul Bellow, Herzog

“Rome fell silently to ruins. A New city rose in its place, and it was too erased by emptiness. Like phantom Giants, cities, kingdoms, and countries swiftly fell and disappeared into emptiness-- swallowed up in the black maw of the Infinite”
― Leonid Andreyev, Lazarus

“The Trade Center dead formed a kind of universal parliament.”
― Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

“The curse of the fall didn't affect only manual work, as we often seem to think. Excessive ambiguity that prevent us from figuring out how to navigate is really a form of confusion. Overload is one of the forms that frustration takes. The inordinate challenges we face in knowledge work can be traced to the fall just as much as the challenges in manual work. Send it especially lies behind the villain of lack of fulfillment. The reason we lack fulfillment is because we aren't fulfilling our true purpose, that is because we have sinned and deviated from God's path.”
― Matt Perman, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

“If this cursed and fallen world
holds such beauty as what I see,
Imagine the beauty of paradise
that's gladly waiting for me.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“Remember, God placed man on earth and gave him dominion over the earth to cultivate and steward it. The fall of man subjected the earth to the same corruption as the hearts of man, but the work Jesus did on the cross set the course for the reversal of this process and the return to our intended mandate. Instead, we as Christians tend to sit back while those who do not know the Lord cultivate and dominate the earth. This is not wrong. They are in fact doing what they were created to do, but they are doing it under a different master. Consider what the world would look like if we took up our God-given mandate and released, by restoration, the glory of creation to a watching world!”
― Karla Perry , Back to the Future

“I am a democrat [proponent of democracy] because I believe in the Fall of Man. I think most people are democrats for the opposite reason.”
― C.S. Lewis, Present Concerns: Journalistic Essays

“Угневаўся Бог ды як крыкне: «Адам, трасца тваёй галаве, дзе ты, гад?!»

Бачыць Адам, што нідзе тут не дзенешся, �� вылазіць з-пад дуба.

«Нашто ты еў тое, што я табе не дазволіў?»

Замест таго каб пакаяцца, Адам пачаў апраўдвацца:

«Жонка, якую ты мне ўсватаў, дала мне, і я еў».

Паклікаў Бог Еву.

«Нашто ты давала Адаму забароненыя плады?»

«Мяне спакусіў дʼябал, угаварыў мяне».

Паглядзеў на іх Бог, патрос галавою.

«Будзь жа ты пракляты, дʼябал. Поўзай на сваім чрэве, а некалі Евін патомак раздушыць табе галаву. Ты, Ева, будзеш у болях раджаць дзяцей, а муж твой будзе гаспадар над табою. А ты, Адам, не забывай, што зроблены ты з зямлі і ў зямлю зноў пойдзеш. Праклята зямля з-за цябе. Будзеш ты працаваць многа, а карысці мець мала, бо не паслухаў Бога». І павыганяў іх Бог вон з раю.”
― Якуб Колас, На ростанях