Garden Of Eden Quotes

• Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Garden, Eden, Apples

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• The Bible is the story of two gardens: Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus took a stand. In the first, God sought Adam. In the second, Jesus sought God. In Eden, Adam hid from God. In Gethsemane, Jesus emerged from the tomb. In Eden, Satan led Adam to a tree that led to his death. From Gethsemane, Jesus went to a tree that led to our life.

  Max Lucado

  Bible, Jesus, Fall

  Max Lucado (2012). “A Gentle Thunder: Hearing God Through the Storm”, p.44, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant.

  Mark Twain

  Wisdom, Garden, Eden

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.76, Chartwell

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• God will restore his planet and his children to their Garden of Eden splendor. It'll be perfect. Perfect in grandeur. Perfect in righteousness. Perfect in harmony.

  Max Lucado

  Children, Garden, Eden

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Love, Garden, Eden

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.10

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• It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Garden, Eden, Apples

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• Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.

  Jerry Falwell

  Garden, Eden, Temptation

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• It's the sense of walking back into the Garden of Eden or something like that. Where suddenly everything is perfect and you see how you're connected to everything in the world.

  Larkin Grimm

  Garden, Eden, Perfect

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We are each called to go through life reclaiming the planet an inch at a time until the Garden of Eden grows green again.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Nature, Garden, Eden

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• God is a God who has not given up on His people. If He wanted to give up, He would have given up back in the Garden of Eden.

  Kirk Cameron

  Giving Up, Garden, Eden

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• The trouble with being an activist is you end up like Eve and you get kicked out of the Garden of Eden. You know, Eve was the first person who thought for herself. And she still gets a bad rap. I named my daughter after her.

  Susan Sarandon

  Daughter, Wisdom, Rap

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• There is no time in human history when you were more perfectly represented than in the Garden of Eden.

  R. C. Sproul

  Garden, Eden, Humans

  R. C. Sproul (2011). “Now, That's a Good Question!”, p.149, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Whenever you see confusion, you can be sure that something is wrong. Disorder in the world implies that something is out of place. Usually, at the heart of all disorder you will find man in rebellion against God. It began in the Garden of Eden and continues to this day.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heart, Men, Garden

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• What a learned idea! Jesus, our elder brother, was begotten in the flesh by the same character that was in the garden of Eden, and who is our Father in Heaven. Now, let all who may hear these doctrines, pause before they make light of them, or treat them with indifference, for they will prove their salvation or damnation

  Brigham Young

  Brother, Jesus, Father

  Brigham Young (1977). “Journal of Discourses”, p.51, Рипол Классик

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• Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.

  Timothy Leary

  Garden, Eden, Sin

  Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, George A. Koopman (1988). “Neuropolitique”, New Falcon Publications

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• Initially, when I first became a Christian and got into ministry, my thought was that God existed to make my life better and to take me to Heaven. Now I realize that it is not about me at all. It is all about God and that He did this to display His plan to restore the Earth to the Garden of Eden state.

  Max Lucado

  Christian, Garden, Eden

  "Interview: Max Lucado on Storytelling, the Church, and Politics". Interview With Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. October 5, 2011.

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• The Rulers of Russia, then, are Jewish Politicians, and they are applying to the world the doctrine of Karl Marx (Mordecai). Marx, was a clear and lucid Talmudist...full of that old Hebrew (sic) materialism which ever dreams of a paradise on earth and always rejects the hope held out of the chance of a Garden of Eden after Death.

  Bernard Lazare

  Dream, Garden, Russia

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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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• But evil has been around since the Garden of Eden, and God's plan for victory was designed before the world began. The Bible tells us to fear no evil.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

  Voltaire

  Men, Garden, Eden

  "Candide, Zadig, and Selected Stories".

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• Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.

  Clarence Darrow

  People, Laughing, Religion

  Clarence Darrow's remarks at a debate with religious leaders in Kansas City, as quoted in a Emanuel Haldeman-Julius' eulogy for Clarence Darrow, 1938.

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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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• In the beginning, after this earth was prepared for man, the Lord commenced his work upon what is now called the American continent, where the Garden of Eden was made. In the days of Noah, in the days of the floating of the ark, he took the people to another part of the earth; the earth was divided, and there he set up his kingdom

  Brigham Young

  Men, Garden, Eden

  Brigham Young (1860). “Journal of Discourses”

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• In the Garden of Eden Eve showed more courage than Adam.. when the serpent offered the forbidden fruit.
  She knew that there was something better than paradise.

  Cesare Borgia

  Garden, Eden, Paradise

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• It is a strange thing that many truly spiritual men, such as General Gordon, have actually spent some hours in speculating upon the precise location of the Garden of Eden. Most probably we are in Eden still. It is only our eyes that have changed.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Spiritual, Eye, Men

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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