Quotes about Eden

In 'The Allure of Hope,' Jan says, Eve was convinced that God was withholding something from her. Not even the extravagance of Eden could convince her that God's heart is good.

They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand, the gate with dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms: Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide; They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.

Let us not then suspect our happie State   Left so imperfet by the Maker wise,   As not secure to single or combin'd.   Fraile is our happiness, if this be so,   And EDEN were no EDEN thus expos'd.

Since Eden's freshness and man's fall, no rose has been original.

The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations. In

The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

A heaven on earth.

I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks.

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.

We must look elsewhere for Eden. Spring is good; but freedom and justice are better. Eden is moral, not material.

No one can give anyone else the gift of the idyll; only an animal can do so, because only animals were not expelled from Paradise.

To an open house in the evening home shall men come, To an older place than Eden and a taller town than Rome.