Adam And Eve Quotes

• Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.

  Matthew Henry

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  "Happy Spouse-- Happy House: The Best Game Plan for a Winning Marriage" by Pat Williams, Ruth E. Williams, David Wimbish, 2009.

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• The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independent of God.

  Bob Jones, Sr.

  Bible, God, Christian

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• To get the full value of joy
  You must have someone to divide it with.
  After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve
  in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden
  with her than inside it without her.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Garden, Years

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• I believe ingratitude is the original sin. I believe if Adam and Eve had been grateful for the garden of Eden they had, they would not have been so focused on the one tree they didn't have.

  Max Lucado

  Grateful, Believe, Garden

  "An Interview With Max Lucado". Interview with David Jones, thebrinkonline.com.

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• Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.

  Richard Armour

  Men, World

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• Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.

  Agnes Repplier

  Adam, Conversation, Difficult

  "American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier".

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• Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him.

  Helen Rowland

  Food, Men, Offering

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.72, Lulu.com

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• God didn't give Adam and Eve the right to decide what was good and evil. He gave them the right to choose between good and evil.

  Mark Hart

  Evil, Giving, Adam

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.33, Franciscan Media

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• Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

  Mark Twain

  Mom, Baby, Children

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 4, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• There is nothing new about humanism. It is the yielding to Satan's first temptation of Adam and Eve: "Ye shall be as gods." (Gen. 3:5)

  Billy Graham

  Temptation, Firsts, Satan

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.

  Dan Barker

  Son, Atheism, Speech

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• Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!

  Oscar Wilde

  Nudity, Adam, Reserved

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• Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

  Abigail Adams

  Daughter, Mother, Female Empowerment

  Abigail Adams, John Adams (1840). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.419

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• After creating the heaven, the earth, the ocean, and the entire animal kingdom, God created Adam and Eve. And the first thing He said to them was "Don't."

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, God, Humorous

  Bill Cosby (2002). “Bill Cosby on Fatherhood”, p.38, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• But Adam and Eve thought that it was they who were determining the course they would follow, that they were only exercising their autonomous right to determine for themselves the true, the good, and the beautiful. They became, in their understanding, their own authority, and their fallen descendants ever since that time have claimed a similar autonomy from God

  Robert L. Reymond

  Beautiful, Exercise, Understanding

  Robert L. Reymond (2010). “A New Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith: 2nd Edition - Revised and Updated”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Country, Differences

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• Adam and Eve had their midlife Crisis when they realized that they were older than sin!

  Jonathan Edward Caldwell

  Religious, Midlife, Sin

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• Had Adam tenderly reproved his wife, and endeavored to lead her to repentance instead of sharing in her guilt, I should be much more ready to accord to man that superiority which he claims; but as the facts stand disclosed by the sacred historian, it appears to me that to say the least, there was as much weakness exhibited by Adam as by Eve. They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Men, Wife, Guilt

  Sarah Moore Grimké, Mary S. Parker (1838). “Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker”, p.6

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• The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive.

  Yip Harburg

  Ems, Littles, Lord

  "Finian's Rainbow (The Begat)". Book by Yip Harburg and Fred Saidy, 1947.

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• It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, "All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up." And they did.

  Diane Arbus

  Fall, Garden, Eden

  Diane Arbus (2003). “Diane Arbus: revelations”, Random House (NY)

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• But think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one: you can never see any concrete proof that it exists, but if you include it in your equations, you can calculate all manner of things that couldn't be imagined without it.

  Philip Pullman

  Science, Thinking, Squares

  "Northern Lights". Book by Philip Pullman, 1995.

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• In Adam's fall We sinned all. In the new Adam's rise, We shall all reach the skies.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Sky, Adam

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1525, Delphi Classics

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• We've fallen for the devil's lie. His most basic strategy, the same one he employed with Adam and Eve, is to make us believe that sin brings fulfillment. However, in reality, sin robs us of fulfillment. Sin doesn't make life interesting; it makes life empty. Sin doesn't create adventure; it blunts it. Sin doesn't expand life; it shrinks it. Sin's emptiness inevitably leads to boredom. When there's fulfillment, when there's beauty, when we see God as he truly is-an endless reservoir of fascination-boredom becomes impossible.

  Randy Alcorn

  Lying, Believe, Adventure

  Randy Alcorn (2011). “Heaven”, p.394, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.

  Marianne Moore

  Time, Thinking, Wonder

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.62, Penguin

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• None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

  E. W. Howe

  Funny, Doe, Records

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