Quotes about Garden
The garden is far less likely to grow weeds if we have been planting flowers.
— NT Wright
And the LORD God commanded him, “You may eat freely from every tree of the garden,
— Genesis 2:16
But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.
— Vincent van Gogh
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
When our father Adam came into the garden of Eden, he came into it with a celestial body, and brought Eve, one of his wives, with him.
— Brigham Young
Out of the ground the LORD God gave growth to every tree that is pleasing to the eye and good for food. And in the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
— Genesis 2:9
Then the man and his wife heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the breeze of the day, and they hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
— Genesis 3:8
As Eden was the Paradise of Creation, Mary is the Paradise of the Incarnation, and in her as a Garden were celebrated the first nuptials of God and man.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Spirituality is not easy to define, but you can tell when it is present. It is the fragrance of the garden of the Lord, the power to change the atmosphere around you, the influence that makes Christ real to others.
— J. Oswald Sanders
“I heard Your voice in the garden,” he replied, “and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.”
— Genesis 3:10
When you live in the garden of hope, something is always blooming!
— Joyce Meyer
The opposite of faith is not doubt; the opposite of faith is control. You must leave the Garden, where there are angels with flaming swords to keep you from ever really returning. You must leave the womb to be born.
— Fr. Richard Rohr