Paradise Quotes - Page 18

• In our first paradise in Eden there was a way to go out but no way to go in again. But as for the heavenly paradise, there is a way to go in, but not way to go out.

  Richard Baxter

  Christian, Blessing, Eden

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• Thought would destroy their paradise.

  Thomas Gray

  Thinking, Destruction

  'Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College' (1747) l. 91

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• Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Love, Mother, Memories

  Henry Van Dyke (2015). “Little Rivers”, p.125, eKitap Projesi

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• There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people can face peril or misfortune with fortitude and buoyancy, but they bitterly resent being deceived or finding that those responsible for their affairs are themselves dwelling in a fool's paradise.

  Winston Churchill

  Mistake, Dwelling, People

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Hinge of Fate”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I count it as a certainty that in paradise, everyone naps.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Sleep, Naps, Certainty

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• You were never told that Saint-Tropez is paradise?

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Saint

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• Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading.

  Mark Doty

  Reading, Broken, Kind

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• Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night
  I can see paradise by the dashboard light.

  Jim Steinman

  Lonely, Dark, Night

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• We have the technology to build a global paradise on earth, and at the same time, we have the power to end life as we know it.  I am a futurist.  I cannot predict the actual future - only what it can be if we manage the earth and its resources intelligently.

  Jacque Fresco

  Technology, Paradise On Earth, Ends

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• Do not use your energy except for a cause more noble than yourself. Such a cause cannot be found except in Almighty God Himself: to preach the truth, to defend womanhood, to repel humiliation which your Creator has not imposed upon you, to help the oppressed. Anyone who uses his energy for the sake of the vanities of the world is like someone who exchanges gemstones for gravel. There is no nobility in anyone who lacks faith. The wise man knows that the only fitting price for his soul is a place in Paradise.

  Ibn Hazm

  Wise, Men, Vanity

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• Why do we complain about the Fall? It is not on its account that we were expelled from Paradise, but on account of the Tree of Life, lest we might eat of it.

  Franz Kafka

  Fall, Tree, Complaining

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• The physical union of a man and a woman, in essence, is a supernatural act, a reminiscence of paradise, the most beautiful of all the hymns of praise dedicated to the Creator by the creature; it is the alpha and the omega of all creation.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Beautiful, Men, Essence

  Samael Aun Weor (2010). “The Mystery of the Golden Blossom: The Magic of Spirituality, Sexuality, and Love”, p.32, Glorian Publishing

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• I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in.

  Ray Conniff

  Broadway, Restaurants, Sat

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• Be at your mother’s feet and there is the Paradise.

  Ibn Majah

  Mother, Feet

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• Paradise is a state of being, more than just the name of a suburb or a home.

  Raquel Cepeda

  Home, Names, States

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Adam was placed in Paradise in perfect estate, and in the company of God's angels; God walked and did talk with him. He heard the voice, and beheld the presence of God.

  John Jewel

  Angel, Voice, Perfect

  John Jewel (2008). “The Works of John Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury: The Fourth Portion”, p.1162, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Mean, Science, Math

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.10, OUP Oxford

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• Hawai'i is not truly the idyllic paradise of popular songs--islands of love and tranquility, where nothing bad ever happens. It was and is a place where people work and struggle, live and die, as they do the world over.

  Alan Brennert

  Song, Struggle, Islands

  Alan Brennert (2015). “The Hawaii Novels: Moloka'i and Honolulu”, p.845, St. Martin's Press

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• Sin and death and suffering and war and poverty are not natural—they are the devastating results of our rebellion against God. We long for a return to Paradise—a perfect world, without the corruption of sin, where God walks with us and talks with us in the cool of the day.

  Randy Alcorn

  War, Long, Perfect

  Randy Alcorn (2011). “Heaven”, p.78, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• An old art spreading rumours about / Paradise, it begs outside the gates / Of the gods: the active gods come out.

  Peter Porter

  Art, Rumours, Gates

  Peter Porter (2010). “The Rest on the Flight: Selected Poems”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

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• Eden, paradise - all the best gardens are imaginary.

  Amy Waldman

  Garden, Eden, All The Best

  "The Submission". Book by Amy Waldman, August 16, 2011.

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• The loveliest, sweetest flower that bloomed in paradise, and the first that died, has rarely blossomed since on mortal soil. It is so frail, so delicate, a thing, it is gone if it but look upon itself; and she who ventures to esteem it hers proves by that single thought she has it not.

  Elizabeth Fry

  Flower, Looks, Gone

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• Terrorism [is] a biological consequence of the multinationals, just as a day of fever is the reasonable price of an effective vaccine . . . The conflict is between great powers, not between demons and heroes. Unhappily, therefore, is the nation that finds the "heroes" underfoot, especially if they still think in religious terms and involve the population in their bloody ascent to an uninhabited paradise.

  Umberto Eco

  Religious, Hero, Thinking

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• If the divine Mercy grants him the knowledge of himself, then his adoration will be pure; and, for him, paradise and hell, recompense, spiritual degrees and all created things will be as though God had never created them. He will not accord them any importance, nor will he take them into consideration, except to the extent that it is prescribed by the divine Law and Wisdom. For then he will know Who is the sole Agent.

  Abdelkader El Djezairi

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Knowledge

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• If a seperate personal Paradise exists for each of us mine must irreparably be planted with trees of words which the wind silvers like poplars, by people who see their confiscated justice given back, and by birds that even in the midst of the truth of death insist on singing in Greek and saying, eros, eros, eros.

  Odysseas Elytis

  Love, Wind, People

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