Paradise Quotes - Page 7

• The wonder is what you can make a paradise out of.

  Eva Hoffman

  Wonder

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Knowledge, Tree, Ancient

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Beyond Good and Evil”, p.80, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• 'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.

  John Milton

  Book, Down And, Forget

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.36

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• Dada is like your hopes: nothing like your paradise: nothing like your idols: nothing like your heroes: nothing like your artists: nothing like your religions: nothing

  Francis Picabia

  Hero, Artist, Idols

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• When you arrive in England for football it's a paradise.

  Eric Cantona

  Football, England

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• The whole world has risen in Christ... If God is 'all in all,' then everything is in fact paradise, because it is filled with the glory and presence of God, and nothing is any more separated from God.

  Thomas Merton

  World, Facts, Christ

  Thomas Merton (2011). “The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters”, p.822, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.

  Ariana Franklin

  Men, Pits

  Ariana Franklin (2007). “Mistress of the Art of Death”, p.90, Penguin

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• Paradise is surrounded by what we dislike; the fires of hell are surrounded by what we desire.

  Rumi

  Fire, Desire, Hell

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• Through faith we are restored to paradise and created anew. We have no need of works in order to be righteous; however, in order to avoid idleness and so that the body might be cared for an disciplined, works are done freely to please God.

  Martin Luther

  Order, Needs, Done

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.864, Fortress Press

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• The Cross is the way to Paradise, but only when it is borne willingly.

  Paul of the Cross

  Saint, Way, Crosses

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• Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Infancy Is, Arms

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.46, Library of America

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• Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.

  Robert Breault

  Dream, Islands, Swim

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• Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we would not require the medical art for relief if we were immune to disease, as was the case, by God's gift, at the time of Creation before the Fall.

  Saint Basil

  Art, Fall, Toil

  Saint Basil (2010). “Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)”, p.331, CUA Press

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• Scripture brought me to the Gate of Paradise, and the mind stood in wonder as it entered.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Mind, Scripture, Wonder

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• The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.

  Novalis

  Bible, Men, Cities

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• Hell is where everyone is doing his own thing. Paradise is where everyone is doing God's thing.

  Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk

  Hell

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• Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

  Voltaire

  Heart, Hell, Loveless

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• The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.

  Victor Hugo

  Hell, Rich, Poor

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• Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Lost, Picks

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• The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could we remain forever in Paradise, but that we are currently there, whether we know it or not.

  Franz Kafka

  Forever, World, Process

  Franz Kafka (2015). “Aphorisms”, p.64, Schocken

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• Entranced by promises of a material paradise of limitless luxury, humanity has too long ignored the mismatch between the imperatives of our existence as living beings on a finite planet and the imperatives of the institutions of money that chart our path to the future. Created to build colonial empires in service to kings, global corporations are ill suited to the task of building just, sustainable, and compassionate civil societies that nurture sufficiency, partnership, and respect for the whole of life.

  David Korten

  Kings, Luxury, Long

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• The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.

  Max Muller

  Memories, Pages, Firsts

  Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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• The 'futures' and 'careers' for which American students now prepare are for the most part intellectual and moral wastelands. This chrome-plated consumers' paradise would have us grow up to be well-behaved children. But an important minority of men and women coming to the front today have shown they will die rather than be standardized, replaceable, and irrelevant.

  Mario Savio

  Children, Growing Up, Men

  Mario Savio, Eugene Walker, Raya Dunayevskaya (1965). “The Free Speech Movement and the Negro revolution”

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• But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.

  Barbara Walters

  Sex, Heaven, Literature

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• He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger.

  Antonio Porchia

  Balance, Bread, Hunger

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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