Adam Quote by Moderata Fonte

“The transgression of Adam and Eve was not in learning the difference between good and evil but in treating the knowledge they received as…

— Michael Rips

“How does the capacity to do evil exist, if that capacity is not within the creator as well? It’s just not possible. The fruit…

— Joe Wenke

“The Genesis story of the reason why Adam and Eve were driven out of the Garden of Eden was not that they had tasted…

— Lin Yutang

“original sin was not the apple that Eve ate, it was her belief that Adam needed to share precisely the thing she had tasted.Eve…

— Paulo Coelho

It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better for us-oh…

— Mark Twain

“Obviously, the core of Eve’s temptation was she wanted to be like God, knowing good and evil. But we can’t ignore the fact that…

— Lysa TerKeurst

“...for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.”

— Donna Woolfolk Cross

“God would not allow Adam and Eve to eat of the forbidden tree, even though it was good for food, pleasant to the eye…

— Ralph Venning

Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

But humans disappoint. Adam, in tasting the fruit, indicates that he prefers Eve to God, so God banishes them.

— Bruce Feiler

“Have you ever considered what Adam and Eve were doing when they got into so much trouble? As I read the story, they were…

— David W. Jones

He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by…

— Victor Hugo