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  • In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief. -- John Barrymore
  • In the most important sense a creationist is a person who believes in creation, and that includes people who believe that Genesis is a myth and that creation involved a process called evolution and consumed billions of years. -- Phillip E. Johnson
  • Each thing leapfrogs. I do a Genesis project - like now, we're just finishing off an album - and then by the time the album is doing its thing, I could do nothing or I could do a film. -- Phil Collins
  • My greatest reward is knowing for certain, as I do with many other acts and artistes, that without Jonathan King being alive and involved, Genesis would not exist, and the guys would have had careers as intended - as accountants and lawyers! -- Jonathan King
  • Passion is the genesis of genius. -- Tony Robbins
  • I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head. -- A.C. Grayling
  • I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work. -- Manuel Puig
  • In the history of the prophetic biblical canon that starts with Genesis, the Koran is by far the most tolerant of the views of other religions. -- Reza Aslan
  • In Genesis we saw ourselves as song-writers. After Peter Gabriel left I was the first to say: 'It's OK - we can just do instrumentals.' -- Phil Collins
  • No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'. -- C. S. Lewis
  • Like most Christians, I believe the Genesis account of creation is a description of six different stages of creation, each of which may have taken eons of time. -- Tony Campolo
  • Genesis 9 is where the animals went wild, and God gave them wildness. After the flood, that's when he made animals wild. Up until that time, everybody was vegetarian. -- Phil Robertson
  • You know, the Bible is so clear. Go to Genesis chapter nine and you will find the death penalty clearly stated in Genesis chapter nine... God ordains the death penalty! -- Rafael Cruz
  • There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong. -- Gregory Bateson
  • I joined Genesis when I was 19. I've earned the right to actually do nothing. I don't want to be a shadow of what I was, so I've kind of just quite willingly stood back. -- Phil Collins
  • This is a huge step toward unraveling Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 1-what happened in the beginning. This is a Genesis machine. It'll help to recreate the most glorious event in the history of the universe. -- Michio Kaku
  • I grew up with video games. My generation kind of grew up with the Nintendo and the Sega Genesis. Then, I had a Dreamcast and, finally, the PlayStation. So yeah, I've always been a big gamer. -- CC Sabathia
  • The creation message has matured over the past three decades, as the discernment and understanding of creationist leaders has matured. More and more, the emphasis is on the foundational issue: compromise of Genesis ultimately undermines the gospel itself. -- Ken Ham
  • I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like the story told by Genesis (we all have to choose our role models, as Woody Allen puts it). -- Umberto Eco
  • When I went to high school in Australia, I was exposed to textbooks that outlined evolutionary ideas - such as ape-like creatures turning into people. I recognized the conflict between evolutionary ideas and a literal reading of the book of Genesis. -- Ken Ham
  • GN'R was five guys who were all into different things. I liked pop and disco, Izzy was into New York rock, Slash loved Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin, Axl was into Genesis and Elton John, and Duff was a punk rocker. We all blended that stuff together. -- Steven Adler
  • I don't have a problem believing in God and Jesus. But in Genesis one has to wonder about these sentences that just go on and end without finishing. The thought is unfinished. Where did Adam go? What is he doing? Hello? There has to be some pages missing. -- Bill Cosby
  • The story of Noah, like other stories in the first 11 chapters of Genesis, are archetypal. Noah's story tells us that human beings have an inherent tendency towards violence both towards their fellow human beings and towards the creation itself. The story tells us that this violence grieves God. -- Adam Hamilton
  • Why do we wear clothes? Genesis! -- Ken Ham
  • The Genesis of life is experience. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Genesis fans are a religious group! -- Phil Collins
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  • Evolution strikes me as infinitely more spiritually profound than Genesis. -- Maggie Nelson
  • Everyone I talk to has a Genesis story to tell. -- Mike Rutherford
  • Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis. -- Honore de Balzac
  • The biblical story of Noah can be found in the book of Genesis. -- Noah
  • There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis. When I was dead broke, man, I couldn't picture this. -- The Notorious B.I.G.
  • I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd. -- Ted Cruz
  • The only accounting we had of the origins and the structure of nature was Biblical Genesis. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Since Genesis 3 we have been addicted to setting our sights on something, someone, smaller than Jesus. -- Tullian Tchividjian
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  • Every single Biblical doctrine of theology, directly or indirectly, ultimately has its basis in the book of Genesis. -- Ken Ham
  • The main subject in the Bible from the beginning of Genesis through Revelation is none other than Jesus. -- Charles E. Fuller
  • How can the Bible be "infallible" when from Genesis to Revelation slavery is commanded and condoned, but never condemned? -- Michael R. Burch
  • If the biblical account of creation in Genesis isn't true, how can we trust the rest of the Bible? -- Beverly LaHaye
  • Genesis 8:22While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease. -- The Holy Bible ESV
  • The Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, is God's "I Will" to every seeker for full salvation of spirit, soul and body. -- Kenneth E. Hagin
  • To the artist, the Book of Genesis is an account of six days in which God suggested some really good ideas. -- Robert Breault
  • The attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis. -- Barry Lopez
  • It is an old baseball joke that big-inning baseball is affirmed in the Bible, in Genesis. "In the big inning, God created... -- George Will
  • Both of you [Elie Wiesel and Frank Moore Cross] are giants, dare I say nephilim [giants; see Genesis 6:4; Numbers 13:33], in your world. -- Hershel Shanks
  • I encounter many Christians who've been raised in the church but never realized that there's a cohesive storyline from Genesis to Revelation. -- David Kim
  • In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back. -- Philip Yancey
  • The only Bible-honoring conclusion is, of course, that Genesis 1-11 is actual historical truth, regardless of any scientific or chronological problems thereby entailed. -- Henry M. Morris
  • The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God. -- Adam Hamilton
  • The Hubble Law is one of the great discoveries in science; it is one of the main supports of the scientific story of Genesis. -- Robert Jastrow
  • It's time for a new Reformation in the Church--to call the Church back to the authority of the Word of God, beginning in Genesis. -- Ken Ham
  • In my youth,geology was nervously striving to accommodate itself to Genesis. Now it is Genesis that is striving to accommodate itself to geology. -- Goldwin Smith
  • Of all the documents that have come down from antiquity, Genesis three is the only one that explains how the world became sinful and evil -- Edward Joseph Young
  • [The story of Adam and Eve] it's poetry. One must interpret it as poetry. The first 11 chapters of Genesis [the Primeval History] are absolutely remarkable. -- Frank Moore Cross
  • The book of Genesis, a farrago of nonsense so wholly absurd that even Sunday-school scholars have to be threatened with Hell to make them accept it. -- H. L. Mencken
  • Genesis 1...was designed to reflect God, both to reflect God back to God in worship and to reflect God into the rest of creation in stewardship. -- N. T. Wright
  • Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser one to rule the night. He made stars also.Genesis 1:16 -- Anonymous
  • We believe that all men are the spirit children of God, created in his image. This concept is supported by the Holy Bible from Genesis to Revelation. -- Hugh B. Brown
  • When the first list was being drawn up in the rock and roll book of Genesis, it would have been: In the beginning, God created Pink Floyd. -- Rick Wakeman
  • The women are, of course, the biggest single group of oppressed people in the world and, if we are to believe the Book of Genesis, the very oldest. -- Chinua Achebe
  • From Genesis to Revelation, here's the central message: God Almighty, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Spirit of God, the Triune God is in control of all things, period. -- Charles Stanley
  • Individual stories from the Bible had been made into movies, but no one had taken on the arc of the Bible story as one meta-narrative from Genesis to Revelation. -- Roma Downey
  • Creation stories had never been regarded as historically accurate; their purpose was therapeutic. But once you start reading Genesis as scientifically valid, you have bad science and bad religion. -- Karen Armstrong
  • The apple was the first fruit of the world according to Genesis, but it was no Cox's Orange Pippin. God gave the crab apple and left the rest to man. -- Jane Grigson
  • God chose to introduce Himself to us in the first verse of Genesis as a Creator. And yet so few Christians really understand the power of creativity to influence the culture. -- Phil Cooke
  • A Creator must exist. The Big Bang ripples and subsequent scientific findings are clearly pointing to an ex nihilo creation consistent with the first few verses of the book of Genesis. -- Henry F. Schaefer, III
  • The only event in the history of our species that compares with this one is Genesis. And this is a new kind of Genesis, the Genesis of our species into conscious awareness. -- Gary Zukav
  • There are sincere believers who interpret Genesis 1 and 2 in a very literal way that is inconsistent, frankly, with our knowledge of the universe's age or of how living organisms are related to each other. -- Richard Dawkins
  • CODE:Cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.Tanakh (JPS, Genesis 3:17)DECODED:Blessed is He that discerneth secrets.Talmud (Berakoth 58a) -- H.W. Charles
  • When I was a tiny tot, we only had one record player in the house, so there was either Genesis on it or the Jungle Book or The Beatles as well, and various other things. -- Rick Astley
  • The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of course, Genesis was written by a man, not a horse. -- Milan Kundera
  • It is quite exciting, incidentally, to know that the Genesis account of the creation of mankind through its first parentage in Adam and Eve bears the marks of derivation from the primary Egyptian symbolic depiction. -- Alvin Boyd Kuhn
  • I think the last game console I had was Super Nintendo. I remember once I played the Sega Genesis. But Super Nintendo was my last game device. I played outside more. I liked kickball and baseball. -- Natalie Martinez
  • All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis. -- William Jennings Bryan
  • We've undergone a very heavy level of scrutiny by review boards because of Genesis and because of the Columbia accident. . . . It was a cultural shift in NASA, that you're now required to understand all the risks. -- Donald E. Brownlee
  • My interpretation is different. God asks Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" [Genesis 4:9] And Cain answers "Lo yadati, "I don't know" or "I didn't know." Then comes a period, followed by "Am I my brother's keeper?" -- Elie Wiesel
  • I consoled myself with Granddaddy's words on the fossil record and the Book of Genesis: It was more important to understand something than to like it. Liking wasn't necessary for understanding. Liking didn't enter into it. -- Kelly Jacqueline
  • It is not good for man to be alone. Hitherto all things [in Genesis] that have been named, were approved of God to be very good: loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good. -- John Milton
  • I do not think that there is any general statement in the Bible or any part of the account of creation, either as given in Genesis 1 and 2 or elsewhere alluded to, that need be opposed to evolution. -- B. B. Warfield
  • In their recently aborted struggle to inject Genesis literalism into science classrooms, fundamentalist groups followed their usual opportunistic strategy of arguing two contradictory sides of a question when a supposed rhetorical advantage could be extracted from each ... -- Stephen Jay Gould
  • My high school science teacher once told me that much of Genesis is false. But since my high school teacher did not prove he was God by rising from the dead, I'm going to believe Jesus instead. -- Andy Stanley
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  • This is the reality about humanity. We are each born with an evil, God-hating heart. Genesis 8: 21 says that every inclination of man's heart is evil from childhood, and Jesus' words in Luke 11: 13 assume that we know we are evil. -- David Platt
  • Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds. -- Rollo May
  • The book of Genesis tells us that God created man and woman entrusting them with the task of filling the earth and subduing it, which does not mean exploiting it, but nurturing and protecting it, caring for it through their work. -- Pope Francis
  • For, to my mind, this is a certain principle, that nothing is here treated of but the visible form of the world. He who would learn astronomy, and other recondite arts, let him go elsewhere. (on commenting the text of Genesis 1:6) -- John Calvin
  • The idea of the split personality is as old as Genesis. For a start, Eve was manufactured from Adam's rib. Then there's Cain and Abel, twins at war. They were followed by Esau and Jacob, likewise divisible into hairy and smooth types. -- Clive Sinclair
  • Ecology is the new theology; big history is the new Genesis. Those who fail to understand that evidence is modern-day scripture, and that the world we live in is an honorable world, betray God and humanity in the most egregious of ways. -- Michael Dowd
  • Abram, having failed in Genesis 13, comes through with flying colors in this battle of faith because he aligns himself with God, and he refuses to allow his heart to be compromised by the possibility of taking the riches that this world can offer. -- Ligon Duncan
  • What if the book (of Genesis) is describing a dawning awareness of the world? The anthropologist Edmund Leach has argued that the 'bit' or binary digit is the basic unit of pre-logical communication. Genesis is a sprouting of 'bits', ie elementary binary distinctions... -- Charles Hampden-Turner
  • 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
  • If Christ has risen the Bible is true from Genesis to Revelation. The kingdom of darkness has been overthrown. Satan has fallen like lightning from heaven; and the triumph of truth over error, of good over evil, of happiness over misery, is forever secured. -- Charles Hodge
  • "¦the Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has no more special status than the belief of a particular West African tribe that the world was created from the excrement of ants. -- Richard Dawkins
  • Creation stories, so central in the religions of the Middle East, play a surprisingly marginal part in Greek myth. The Greeks had nothing to set alongside the resounding 'In the beginning' in the book of Genesis, where one eternal God creates the universe out of nothing. -- Neil MacGregor
  • My feminism is what came squarely up against my faith. There's a lot of ecstatic post-patriarchal Christians who have stuff they do with that. But at that point, you're doing Christianity with a double-superscript. The Bible, and especially the book of Genesis, is pretty unapologetically patriarchal. -- John Darnielle
  • GN'R was five guys who were all into different things. I liked pop and disco, Izzy was into New York rock, Slash loved Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin, Axl was into Genesis and Elton John, and Duff was a punk rocker. We all blended that stuff together." -- Steven Adler
  • When I was growing up, I was an '80s baby, so I remember the Sega Genesis and the first Nintendo. I grew up in a time when we first started playing video games on a computer screen. Now there are headsets and your body's the controller. -- Mehcad Brooks
  • I believe that the writers of Genesis had detected the inherent selfishness in human nature that I propose is in our genes, and invented the myth of original sin to account for it. It's an image. I am not acting as an exegete - I don't interpret scripture. -- Christian de Duve
  • St. Augustine wrote that basically it is not possible to understand what was being described in Genesis. It was not intended as a science textbook. It was intended as a description of who God was, who we are and what our relationship is supposed to be with God. -- Richard Dawkins
  • Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange believe that it is the word of God has stood, and there remains nothing of Genesis but an anonymous book of stories, fables, and traditionary or invented absurdities, or of downright lies. -- Thomas Paine
  • I can't believe the world was created in six days. I do not take Genesis or Revelation literally. I AM OUT. I am alone. I am an outsider for Christ. I will study my Bible, and pray to God in private and alone. I have no other choice. -- Anne Rice
  • I had a conversation with Nick Barrucci, and he said he thought I'd be a good fit for this project. It was just that simple! Once I learned what Kurt Busiek, Alex Ross, and Jack Herbert were doing for Kirby: Genesis, though, I was even more on board. -- Sterling Gates
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  • 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. -- Pope John Paul II
  • It is easier and much more satisfying to rail against the Right than to suggest that we go back to Genesis 1 and study together. Liberals can be just as intolerant as fundamentalists, and we have arrived at a moment in human history when intolerance and hope are mutually exclusive. -- Robin Meyers
  • Our very genesis was not really a beginning after all, but indeed the product of a personality-Father Mills. -- Percy Jewett Burrell
  • All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times. -- Eskinder Nega
  • The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery. -- Athol Fugard
  • The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily - and perhaps most tellingly - described in terms of the genesis of the modern Lounge Suit. -- Joseph A. Schumpeter
  • It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience) -- James Schuyler
  • Ethiopia always has a special place in my imagination and the prospect of visiting Ethiopia 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. -- Nelson Mandela
  • Everything is not black-and-white. I'm really interested in the gray area - not justifying it, not glorifying it, not condoning it, but at least having people see there's a genesis for every event in our lives. There's some divine order to it, whether it's ugly or beautiful. -- Isaiah Washington
  • The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems. -- Margaret Atwood
  • Of course, the genesis of a good portion of the gridlock in Congress does not reside in Congress itself. Ultimate reform will require each of us, as voters and Americans, to take a long look in the mirror, because in many ways, our representatives in Washington reflect the people who have sent them there. -- Evan Bayh
  • As a girl, I used to zip myself into a snowsuit, fall into the deepest snowdrift I could find and sweep my arms and legs into the powder, making snow angels that would crumble within minutes of their genesis. Despite their rapid disappearance, something about these frozen, evanescent angels has stayed with me ever since. -- Danielle Trussoni
  • A lot of Christians have been taught a story that begins in chapter 3 of Genesis, instead of chapter 1. If your story doesn't begin in the beginning, but begins in chapter 3, then it starts with sin, and so the story becomes about dealing with the sin problem. So Jesus is seen as primarily dealing with our sins. -- Rob Bell
  • The Europeans and the Americans are not throwing $10 billion down this gigantic tube for nothing. We're exploring the very forefront of physics and cosmology with the Large Hadron Collider because we want to have a window on creation, we want to recreate a tiny piece of Genesis to unlock some of the greatest secrets of the universe. -- Michio Kaku
  • The doctrine of marriage depends on Genesis being true. If there's an absolute authority, and if God's the Creator, He made one man and one woman. Jesus came and said that marriage is between a man and woman. If Genesis is not true, we're just animals, and marriage is just whatever you want to make it to be. -- Ken Ham
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