110 Quotes About Eden

We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.

Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?

How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . Like Eden's dead probationary tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.

Even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.

Having mourned your sin, for outward Eden lost, find paradise within.

Every crime destroys more Edens than our own

One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory.

This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so.

Sweet as Eden is the air, / And Eden-sweet the ray.