The angel came, the angel saw, the angel fell.
The attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis.
It was the disobedience and rebellion of the Jews, God's chosen people, to their covenantal responsibility to serve only the one true God, Jehovah, that gave rise to the opposition and persecution that they experienced beginning in Canaan and continuing to this very day.
The true sin against the Holy Ghost is ingratitude.
The myth about the angel who rebelled against his Lord is the most beautiful of all myths, the proudest, the most revolutionary, the most immortal of them all.
The devil's main purpose is not to scare us, in a horror-movie way; when we're scared of him, we're alert to him, and that might undermine his plans. Instead, he wants to quietly, subtly lure us into stepping away from God.
By that sin fell the angels.
The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.
God, from whose territory I had withdrawn my ambassadors at the age of fourteen. It had become obvious that he was never going to do a thing I said.
Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.
When we see Him, we will wonder that we ever could have disobeyed Him.
Sin is essentially a departure from God.
In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man.
The beginning of men's rebellion against God was, and is, the lack of a thankful heart.
