Paradise Quotes - Page 18

• In the nine heavens are eight Paradises; Where is the ninth one? In the human breast. Only the blessed dwell in th' Paradises, But blessedness dwells in the human breast.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Blessed, Eight, Heaven

  William Rounseville Alger (1865). “The Poetry of the Orient”, p.223

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• God created man for fellowship... The fall of man ruined that and Paradise that is, the garden of Eden was lost, but on the new earth paradise will be regained and God will again fellowship with mankind in a unique sense.

  Paul P. Enns

  Fall, Unique, Men

  Paul P. Enns (2011). “Heaven Revealed: What Is It Like? What Will We Do?... And 11 Other Things You've Wondered About”, p.97, Moody Publishers

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• Prayer brings a good spirit in our homes. For God hears prayer. Heaven itself would come down to our homes. And even though we who constitute the home all have our imperfections and our failings, our home would, through God's answer to prayer, become a little paradise.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Home, Imperfection

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• Sunday-the doctor's paradise! Doctors at country clubs, doctors at the seaside, doctors with mistresses, doctors with wives, doctors in church, doctors in yachts, doctors everywhere resolutely being people, not doctors.

  Sylvia Plath

  Country, Sunday, Doctors

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.120, Hamilton Books

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• Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Men, Vanity

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• 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 root, it is only the touching memorial of a lost Eden; sad, while charming--beautiful, but dead.

  Charles Villiers Stanford

  Beautiful, Flower, Roots

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• The assumption is that people so ignorant and thoughtless and silly and greedy may simply call upon the Army Corps of Engineers in order to receive a clean and abundant supply of water from reservoirs in the mountains. A much likelier outcome is that they will be drinking an ever stronger mixture of sewage and mine acid and mud and cropspray and various other defecations of the industrial paradise.

  Wendell Berry

  Drinking, Silly, Army

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• Paradise will not be a hall of mirrors, it will be a display of majesty, and it won't be ours

  John Piper

  Mirrors, Majesty, Halls

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• There would be no call for ecological campaigning had nature not been exploited and abused. We experience the ground now bringing forth thistles as soil erosion devastates formerly arable land and deserts overtake fertile farms. Rivers and the atmosphere are polluted thoughtlessly and we are fearful of the consequences of a depleted ozone layer and the devastation of the greenhouse effect. We are not quite at home in our world, and somewhere in each of us there is a nostalgia for a paradise that has been lost.

  Desmond Tutu

  Home, Rivers, Ozone

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• The cult of happiness turns into a huge concern which to my opinion is exactly contrary to what happiness should be: a paradise of enchantment.

  Pascal Bruckner

  Enchantment, Opinion, Should

  Source: www.mantlethought.org

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• It's a simplification to say that the men [during Stone Age] went to war to maintain their dominance over the women. The men would help dig agricultural ditches because they were superb farmers. That was very heavy lifting work. But then they just preened themselves, and put bird-of-paradise plumes [in their hair], and smoked dope.

  Peter Matthiessen

  War, Dope, Men

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Im not really a tropical paradise kind of person.

  Matthew Fox

  Kind, Tropical, Persons

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• Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text. It's not like the text of Paradise Lost or James Joyce's Ulysses, and you have to adhere to that exact text.

  Philip Pullman

  Fairy Tale, Ulysses, Lost

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

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• If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sweat, Earth, Brows

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• The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide our thoughts and action.

  Bell Hooks

  Justice, Definitions, Would Be

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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• Love! the surviving gift of Heaven, The choicest sweet of Paradise, In life's else bitter cup distilled.

  Thomas Campbell

  Love, Sweet, Heaven

  Thomas Campbell, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Gray (1872). “The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors”, p.165

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• Let's build Paradise again.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Inspirational, Motivational, Eco

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• I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor. "Rocky" was an ensemble film. "F.I.S.T." was an ensemble. "Paradise Alley" was an ensemble.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Ensemble, Actors, Action

  "The Expendables - Sylvester Stallone interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Doubt in love is the Devil in the paradise!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Doubt, Devil

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• There seems in most countries to be either one extreme or the other. Truly a paradise could exist wherever material progress and spiritual values could be properly balanced.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Spiritual, Environmental

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.401, Ballantine Books

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• In the vast archipelago of the east, where Borneo and Java and Sumatra lie, and the Molucca Islands, and the Philippines, the sea is often fanned only by the land and sea breezes, and is like a smooth bed, on which these islands seem to sleep in bliss,--islands in which the spice and perfume gardens of the world are embowered, and where the bird of paradise has its home, and the golden pheasant, and a hundred others of brilliant plumage, whose flight is among thickets so luxuriant, and scenery so picturesque, that European strangers find there the fairy land of their youthful dreams.

  Frederick Marryat

  Dream, Lying, Home

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• If we take judging ourselves and others out of our life, we will mostly be living in paradise.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Spiritual, Judging, Ifs

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• Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.

  Dante Alighieri

  Baby, Stars, Children

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• There are several states where you can get married. But I think I can say without fear of contradiction, 'Paradise awaits.' We'll be happy to welcome you. And if you do get married in another state, think about honeymooning in Hawaii.

  Neil Abercrombie

  Gay, Thinking, Hawaii

  "Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie On Gay Marriage, ENDA And Lesbian State Rep Who Voted Against Marriage Equality" by Michelangelo Signorile, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 16, 2013.

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• An angel of Paradise, no less, is always beside me, wrapped in everlasting ecstasy on his Lord. So I am ever under the gaze of an angel who protects and prays for me.

  Pope John XXIII

  Angel, Praying, Lord

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