When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.
— 1 Corinthians 13:11

Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”
— Genesis 3:8-9

He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”
— Genesis 3:10

And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
— Genesis 3:11

The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
— Genesis 3:12

The world encourages me to think of myself more as a victim than as a human. I am so wrapped up in the hurt I have received that I do not notice the hurt I inflict. —John Ortberg

Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”

The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
— Genesis 3:13

You are responsible for 100% of what you are responsible for.

The practice of confession is what breaks the cycle of blame.

God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
— 2 Corinthians 5:21