Eden Quotes - Page 8

• You looked at me then like you knew me, and I thought it really was Eden, and I couldn't take your eyes in because I was loving the hoof marks on your cheeks.

  Toni Morrison

  Eye, Love At First Sight, Like You

  Toni Morrison (1992). “Jazz”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more than surrender.

  Dean Koontz

  Heart, Light, Darkness

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• The devil stole into the Garden of Eden. He carried with him the disease - amor deliria nervosa - in the form of a seed. It grew and flowered into a magnificent apple tree, which bore apples as bright as blood. -From Genesis: A Complete History of the World and the Known Universe, by Steven Horace, PhD, Harvard University

  Lauren Oliver

  Garden, Apples, Blood

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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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• My sister Emily loved the moors. Flowers brighter than the rose bloomed in the blackest of the heath for her; out of a sullen hollow in a livid hillside her mind could make an Eden. She found in the bleak solitude many and dear delights; and not the least and best-loved was – liberty.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Flower, Rose, Solitude

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• It is their nature, beautiful and simple. That you would destroy such beings, Mr. Lincoln, such superior creatures, seems madness to me.” “That you speak of them with such reverence, Mr. Poe, seems madness to me.” "Can you imagine it? Can you imagine seeing the universe through such eyes? Laughing in the face of time and death—the world your Garden of Eden? Your library? Your harem?

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Beautiful, Eye, Simple

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• If we were capable of thinking of everything, we would still be living in Eden, rent-free with all-you-can-eat buffets and infinitely better daytime TV programming.

  Dean Koontz

  Thinking, Buffets, Tvs

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.807, Bantam

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• The new earth will be like Eden. ..the deserts will gush with water. ... A beautiful and bountiful land will flourish.

  Paul P. Enns

  Beautiful, Land, Water

  Paul P. Enns (2011). “Heaven Revealed: What Is It Like? What Will We Do?... And 11 Other Things You've Wondered About”, p.126, Moody Publishers

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• If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool.

  I. L. Peretz

  Husband, Garden, Wife

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• We are ourselves the stumbling-blocks in the way of our happiness. Place a common individual - by common, I mean with the common share of stupidity, custom, and discontent - place him in the garden of Eden, and he would not find it out unless he were told, and when told, he would not believe it.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Block, Believe, Mean

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and reality, by L.E.L.”, p.176

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• Human excellence, parted from God, is like a fable flower, which, according to Rabbis, Eve plucked when passing out of paradise--severed from its native root, it is only the touching memorial of a lost Eden; sad, while charming--beautiful, but dead.

  Charles Villiers Stanford

  Beautiful, Flower, Roots

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• Of all the trees that have ever been cultivated by man, the genealogical tree is the driest. It is one, we may be sure, that had no place in the garden of Eden. Its root is in the grave; its produce mere Dead Sea fruit.

  Amelia B. Edwards

  Men, Garden, Roots

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• It is possible for science to make the world like the Garden of Eden! Amen. But it is also possible, and sometimes it seems more probable, that science will make the world a very good imitation of hell.

  Maude Royden

  Science, Garden, World

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• ... luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.

  Umberto Eco

  Dimensions, Ethical, Scene

  Umberto Eco (2002). “Five Moral Pieces”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The ancestral deed is thought and done,
  And in a million Edens fall
  A million Adams drowned in darkness,
  For small is great and great is small,
  And a blind seed all.

  Edwin Muir

  Fall, Darkness, Done

  EDWIN MUIR (1960). “COLLECTED POEMS”

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• Silent rushes the swift Lord
  Through ruined systems still restored,
  Broadsowing, bleak and void to bless,
  Plants with worlds the wilderness;
  Waters with tears of ancient sorrow
  Apples of Eden ripe to-morrow.
  House and tenant go to ground,
  Lost in God, in Godhead found.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Apples, Water

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “Poems”, p.158

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• God created man for fellowship... The fall of man ruined that and Paradise that is, the garden of Eden was lost, but on the new earth paradise will be regained and God will again fellowship with mankind in a unique sense.

  Paul P. Enns

  Fall, Unique, Men

  Paul P. Enns (2011). “Heaven Revealed: What Is It Like? What Will We Do?... And 11 Other Things You've Wondered About”, p.97, Moody Publishers

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• This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so.

  Dean Koontz

  Arrogance, World, Hell

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.334, Bantam

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• That intermediate manifestation of the divine process which we call the DNA code has spent the last 2 billion years making this planet a Garden of Eden.

  Timothy Leary

  Garden, Dna, Years

  Timothy Leary (2009). “Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out”, p.7, Ronin Publishing

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• The media have, indeed, provided the Devil with perhaps the greatest opportunity accorded him since Adam and Eve were turned out of the Garden of Eden.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Opportunity, Garden, Media

  1976 Christ and theMedia, introduction.

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• Nicole Baart has written a novel that satisfies on every level. Sleeping In Eden is a compelling mystery, a tragic love story, a perceptive consideration of the callous whim of circumstance and, perhaps most important, a beautiful piece of prose. I guarantee this is a book that will haunt you long after you've turned the last page.

  William Kent Krueger

  Beautiful, Book, Sleep

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• Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Angel, Men, Paradise

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works: Hyperion”, p.110

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• Nature eschews regular lines; she does not shape her lines by a common model. Not one of Eve's numerous progeny in all respects resembles her who first culled the flowers of Eden. To the infinite variety and picturesque inequality of nature we owe the great charm of her uncloying beauty.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Nature, Flower, Doe

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• We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Children, Garden, Wind

  Rita Mae Brown (1982). “Southern discomfort”, Harpercollins

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• Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.

  Fannie Hurst

  Life, Debtors, Relentless

  Fannie Hurst (1959). “Imitation of Life”, New York : Permabooks

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