Quotes about Original sin
Yet historically, the teaching of original sin started us off on the wrong foot—with a no instead of a yes, with a mistrust instead of a trust.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Even though Eve ate the fruit first, God went looking for Adam. It had been Adam whom God had revealed himself to as LORD God in the context of giving Adam divine instruction.
- Tony Evans
By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through a woman [Mary].
- St. Augustine
All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
...in certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance.
- Herman Melville
The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature was, the fall of our first parents.
- George Whitefield
God created Adam lord of all living creatures, but Eve spoiled it all.
- Martin Luther
The fundamental loss of a desire for God is the heart of original sin.
- RC Sproul
Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.
- Donald Miller