Paradise Quotes - Page 32

• The real "opium of the people", distracting men's minds from their essential task, is the communist myth of an earthly paradise.

  Jean Danielou

  Real, Men, People

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• There are two cardinal human sins out of which all others derive, deviate, and dissipate: impatience and lassitude (or perhaps nonchalance). On account of impatience they are driven out of paradise; on account of lassitude or nonchalance they do not return. Perhaps, however, only one main sense of sin is given: impatience. On account of impatience they are driven out, on account of impatience they do not turn back.

  Franz Kafka

  Two, Nonchalance, Return

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• Life - it's not paradise, you do not have to be perfect.

  Gia Carangi

  Perfect

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• In this life there is no purgatory; it is either hell or paradise; for to him who serves God truly, every trouble and infirmity turns into consolations, and through all kinds of trouble he has a paradise within himself even in this world: and he who does not serve God truly, and gives himself up to sensuality, has one hell in this world, and another in the next.

  Philip Neri

  Giving, Doe, World

  Saint Philip Neri, Faber, Frederick William Faber (1995). “If God be with Us: The Maxims of St. Philip Neri”, p.47, Gracewing Publishing

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• By suffering we are able to give something to God. The gift of pain, of suffering is a big thing and cannot be accomplished in Paradise.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Pain, Giving, Suffering

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• When you take away the violence from the market, even it starts shifting into something else - not exactly paradise, but it doesn't become the market in the way we see it now.

  David Graeber

  Way, Shifting, Violence

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Through the Holy Spirit comes our restoration to paradise, our ascension into the kingdom of heaven, our return to the adoption of sons, our liberty to call God our Father, our being made partakers of the grace of Christ, our being called children of light, our sharing in eternal glory, and, in a word, our being brought into a state of all "fulness of blessing," both in this world and in the world to come, of all the good gifts that are in store for us, by promise hereof, through faith, beholding the reflection of their grace as though they were already present, we await the full enjoyment.

  Saint Basil

  Children, Father, Son

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• If I could, I'd live in the nude, like Eve in paradise.

  Shakira

  If I Could, Ifs

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• As a true patriot, I should be ashamed to think that Adam in paradise was more favorably situated on the whole than the backwoodsman in this country.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Thinking, America

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.9, 谷月社

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• When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me.

  Sean Scully

  Art, School, Driven

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• The Sabbath is the link between the paradise which has passed away and the paradise which is yet to come.

  Andrew Wylie

  Links, Passed Away, Sabbath

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• A big island of library, in the middle of an ocean, away from all the fools of the world, would this place not be a real paradise?

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, Ocean, Islands

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• Doubtless, we are as slow to conceive of Paradise as of Heaven, of a perfect natural as of a perfect spiritual world. We see how past ages have loitered and erred. "Is perhaps our generation free from irrationality and error? Have we perhaps reached now the summit of human wisdom, and need no more to look out for mental or physical improvement?" Undoubtedly, we are never so visionary as to be prepared for what the next hour may bring forth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spiritual, Past, Errors

  Henry David Thoreau (2002). “The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde”, p.122, North Point Press

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• If I see any politician or a priest or an imam or a rabbi in the Paradise, I will give up believing in God!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Giving Up, Believe, Politician

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• Reason and religion cannot coexist together. If reason exists, then paradise, prophets and all other religiuous illusions disappear.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Together, Illusion, Reason

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• Paradise can take the form of anything! It can be a flower or it can be a word or it can just be a sincere smile!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Flower, Sincere, Form

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• Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away.

  William Blake

  Men, Three, Painting

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.559, Univ of California Press

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• Refuse to seek for the road to paradise, because every beautiful place is already a paradise!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Refuse, Beautiful Places

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• Delhi is definitely a foodie's paradise.

  Esha Gupta

  Delhi

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• At present the globe goes with a shattered constitution in its orbit.... No doubt the simple powers of nature, properly directed by man, would make it healthy and a paradise; as the laws of man's own constitution but wait to be obeyed, to restore him to health and happiness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Health, Simple, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Man is the only animal who does not feel at home in nature, who can feel evicted from paradise, the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem that he has to solve and from which he cannot escape. He cannot go back to the prehuman state of harmony with nature, and he does not know where he will arrive if he goes forward. Man's existential contradiction results in a state of constant disequilibrium. This disequilibrium distinguishes him from the animal, which lives, as it were, in harmony with nature.

  Erich Fromm

  Home, Animal, Men

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.373, Open Road Media

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• Whatever life after death is, being with Christ which is far better, being in Paradise like the thief, etc, the many rooms where we go immediately... that is the temporary place. The ultimate life after life after death is the resurrection in God's new world.

  N. T. Wright

  Rooms, Etc, Thieves

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Description, Sensible, Persons

  "Persian Letters" by Baron de Montesquieu, No. 125, 1721.

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• The only possible paradises are those we have lost

  Marcel Proust

  Lost

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• Well, the moral of the story, The moral of this song, Is simply that one should never be Where one does not belong. So when you see your neighbor carryin' somethin', Help him with his load, And don't go mistaking Paradise For that home across the road.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Home, Doe

  Song: The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest, Album: John Wesley Harding

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