Commandment Quote by Stephen Greenblatt

“Adam means “human.” Eve means “life.” A human needs another for “life” to come alive and become living. Identity can’t grow ferally, only communally.…

— Leonard Sweet

And so, at least symbolically, the blood of Eve courses through each one of her daughters' veins. We are each associated with life; each…

— Rachel Held Evans

When Eve was brought unto Adam, he became filled with the Holy Spirit, and gave her the most sanctified, the most glorious of appellations.…

— Martin Luther

Human excellence, parted from God, is like a fable flower, which, according to Rabbis, Eve plucked when passing out of paradise--severed from its native…

— Charles Villiers Stanford

“You can give away parts of your soul to loving, but you must always reserve part of your soul for yourself. Eve had forgotten…

— Katie Mishra

And so Adam, in that his speech to Eve, uttered his faith in the promise made to her of her seed, and so in…

— Thomas Goodwin

“Eve's Fall symbolizes women's invention of agriculture, which came to be seen as the Original Sin that caused the loss of Paradise. The revolutionary…

— Robert S. McElvaine

“Let us note that the tree in itself was a good thing, for all that God had made was good (see Gn 1:31). The…

— Brian Kennelly

“Given the way creation unfolds, how it builds to ever higher and higher works of art, can there be any doubt that Eve is…

— John Eldredge

“God must have known that, in the end, Adam and Eve would eat the apple and have to leave the Garden. But he had…

— Spencer C Demetros

“We believe that the creation of a woman was the crowning and final and most glorified moment of human creation. That we start with…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

Eve is a life giver; she is Adam's ally. It is to both of them that the charter for adventure is given. It will…

— John Eldredge