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“Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“脭, Wanderess, Wanderess
When did you feel your
most euphoric kiss?
Was I the source
of your greatest bliss?”
― Roman Payne

“By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.”
― peter kreeft, Jesus-Shock

“Let us take care of our Garden of Eden with the fragrance of its flowers and the oxygen of its sheltering trees and savor the fruits of each precious single moment ever since life can be a sparkling ballet expressing the beauties and values that enlighten and enrich us. ( "Why step out of nature?")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Those ancients who in poetry presented
the golden age, who sang its happy state,
perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place.
Here, mankind's root was innocent; and here
were every fruit and never-ending spring;
these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man.”
― Clarence Darrow

“She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little girl she had said - to the consternation of her family - What kind of idiot was Eve, to believe a snake? But now she understood, for she had heard the voice of the snake and had watched as a wise and powerful man had fallen under its spell.
Eat the fruit and you can have the desires of your heart. It's not evil, it's noble and good. You'll be praised for it.
And it's delicious.”
― Orson Scott Card, Shadow of the Hegemon

“Smartass Disciple: Master, why there was no second chance in garden of eden?
Master of Stupidity: Of course. Perhaps, human can only enjoy one-time virginity.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Eden is a factory and human was a reject.
We are being recalled in order to be fixed.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“Maybe that's why God had placed the angel at the Garden of Eden鈥攖o keep people away from the Tree of Life? Not to prevent them from having something good, but to protect them from something that had the potential to ultimately destroy the world?”
― Jody Hedlund, Come Back to Me

“Do you have other things like that to look forward to?

Just everyday. I look forward to everyday.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“He had lost the capacity of personal suffering, or he thought he had, and could only be hurt truly by what happened to others.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“And the world must always seem to be either the Garden of Eden, from which he is about to be expelled, or a circle in hell, into which he has wandered like Dante or Orpheus only to find that he can鈥檛 get out.”
― Jane Rule, Desert of the Heart

“It is no accident that the Atonement will begin, as did the Fall, in a Garden. And it is no accident as well that the individuals in those gardens were each sinless, or that the events in those gardens centered on their exercise of agency-for Adam, whether he would partake of the bitter fruit, and for the Savior, whether He would partake of the bitter cup. The Savior and Adam faced a similar choice: If they did not partake, they would become lone men in paradise. Both partook that man might be. And by partaking of that bitterness, Adam came to know good and evil, and the Savior came to know all of the good and evil that had and would transpire in the hearts of mean through all generations of time.”
― James L. Ferrell, The Peacegiver: How Christ Offers to Heal Our Hearts and Homes

“In the garden of God, you will find it filled with flowers (we are those flowers) that open at eventide when the Spirit calls.”
― John M Sheehan

“I imagine us in Eden鈥�
two black boys in Paradise,
naked, no fig leaves.
Adam and Eve are long gone,
so Kieran and Michael
inherit the garden
and the serpent is forgotten
and the fruit on the tree of knowledge
has gone rotten.鈥�
鈥� Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo”
― Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo

“His father, who ran his life more disastrously than any man that he had ever know, gave marvelous advice. He distilled it out of the bitter mash of all his previous mistakes with the freshening additions of the new mistakes he was about to make and he gave it with an accuracy and precision that carried the authority of a man who had heard all the more grisly provisions of his sentence and gave it no more importance than he had given to the fine print on a transatlantic steamship ticket.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Humans suffered the darkness of ignorance until the serpent introduced them to the light of reason and the bright illumination of knowledge and understanding. 鈥淕od鈥� sought to deny the transformative power of knowledge to humanity. The serpent, channeling the spirit of Prometheus, subverted God and gave humanity what it needed to liberate itself. Knowledge is power. Those without knowledge are powerless. God forbade Adam and Eve to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge because he never wanted them to be free. They were to be his slaves forever, ignorant of what existence is and how it functions.”
― David Sinclair, The Church of the Serpent: The Philosophy of the Snake and Attaining Transcendent Knowledge

“The Glory of the Garden was not in its unsullied beauty, its unfettered joy, or its bountiful provision. The Glory of the Garden was God Himself, His pretense, His care, His love.”
― Michelle Lesley

“I believe the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil represents the law, or legalistic thinking... But the Tree of Life represents Christ and His grace.”
― Robby Dawkins, Identity Thief: Exposing Satan's Plan to Steal Your Purpose, Passion and Power

“the delicate fragrance of rose hips
lingered on my fingers
from tending the garden .”
― Meeta Ahluwalia

“When the awful time of reckoning comes, and the Jehovah God appears to demand why his command has been disobeyed, Adam endeavors to shield himself behind the gentle being he has declared to be so dear. 鈥楾he woman thou gavest to be with me, she gave me and I did eat,鈥� he whines鈥攖rying to shield himself at his wife's expense! Again we are amazed that upon such a story men have built up a theory of their superiority!”
― Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Woman's Bible, Part I & II

“The New World's purpose was to be The Old World's Eden - a place of dreams to wipe clean the mistakes and sins of the past and start again. This mirage bore the human flaws of its construction that we are still dealing with today.”
― Stewart Stafford

“And sincerely we're seeing
When 'sinternally' seeking
In a manner of speaking
There, in the eve of Eden
Wreaked a sea that was leaking

To where we were once but merely:

Like bodies paralyzed
- (B)Or(ed) minds buried alive -
In a loud room soundproof
Fallen short of the gory abroad before
The Lord God let us go beyond our facade”
― Criss Jami

“I used to think the garden of Eden story was all about Eve breaking the rules and eating the forbidden fruit. Church lessons taught us that her selfishness and deception resulted in great suffering for every generation to follow.
That's the guilt we have been taught to carry as women. The serpent tricks us, and it's all our fault. Others are harmed by our naive choice, and it's all our fault. Our children stray from the right path, and it's all our fault.
Truth is, the dangers were here from the start. But so was the beauty.
Now I realize the story is not about punishing all of humankind for Eve's mistake. It's about relationship. It's about gratitude and honesty and choosing the right person to be by your side in life. It's about trust and partnership and loyalty. It's about love.
Now, as the garden comes to life around me, I no longer think of serpents and betrayals and lies and shame. Instead, I see what God sees. I see that it is good. All of it. Good.”
― Julie Cantrell, Perennials

“With starry eyes we forget what is literally the oldest trick in The Book: that the very first 'liberal' was one of deception - a snake in the Garden - and he corrupted paradise.”
― Criss Jami

“The Icarian Impulse by Stewart Stafford

With fruit of the knowledge tree,
We took a bite from our world,
Gaining serpent's destructive kiss,
Malicious shortcuts paved "good."

The shock setting of a precedent,
Akin to committing bloody murder,
Shedding the skin of equilibrium,
As a lethal new dawn descends.

Promethean self-replicating beings;
Sacrilegious idols mirror our image,
Synthetic, unsympathetic sentience,
Masochistic puzzles of self-immolation.

漏 Stewart Stafford, 2024. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“An avocado of hope
ripens in one corner,
while a pomegranate of faith
bursts open in another.

Vivid tulips unfurl
their petals of dreams,
as hybrid lilies embrace
the sturdy guava鈥檚 roots.

Mimosa of forgiveness,
Basil of kindness,
and mint of tolerance
sway in harmony,
whispering peace
to the passing breeze.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliyahapaliya

“An avocado of hope
ripens in one corner,
while a pomegranate of faith
bursts open in another.

Vivid tulips unfurl
their petals of dreams,
as hybrid lilies embrace
the sturdy guava鈥檚 roots.

Mimosa of forgiveness,
Basil of kindness,
and mint of tolerance
sway in harmony,
whispering peace
to the passing breeze.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya, Our Nepal, Our Pride

“Marketing got Eve. Sales got Adam.”
― Richie Norton