Quotes about Eve
From the time of Adam and Eve, man has tried to escape suffering in any form.
— Mother Angelica
Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is ironical and entertaining to consider that at least once in the world's history those words might have been said with complete conviction, and that was on the eve of the Resurrection.
— Dorothy Sayers
Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair that ever since in love's embraces met -- Adam, the goodliest man of men since born his sons; the fairest of her daughters Eve.
— John Milton
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.
— Mark Twain
We're children of God through our blood kinship with Christ. We're also sons and daughters of Adam and Eve, with a hereditary craving for forbidden fruit salad.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
God created Adam lord of all living creatures, but Eve spoiled it all.
— Martin Luther
What sort of world might it have been if Eve had refused the servants offer and had said to him instead, "let me not be like God. Let me be what I was made to be - let me be a woman'?
— Elisabeth Elliot
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