Quotes on Paradise

in time of daffodils(who know the goal of living is to grow) forgetting why,remember how in time of lilacs who proclaim the aim of waking is to dream, remember so(forgetting seem) in time of roses(who amaze our now and here with paradise) forgetting if,remember yes in time of all sweet things beyond whatever mind may comprehend, remember seek(forgetting find) and in a mystery to be (when time from time shall set us free) forgetting me,remember me

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.

O God! if I worship Thee in fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; and if I worship Thee in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise; but if I worship Thee for Thine own sake, withhold not thine everlasting beauty.

You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.

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.

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

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

I wanted all things to seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, instead of tense. And I made up lies, so they all fit nice, and I made this sad world a paradise

If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.

Me, I still believe in paradise. But now at least I know its not some place you can look for because its not where you go. It’s how you feel for a moment in your life when you’re a part of something and if you find that moment, it lasts forever.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.

Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return.

Here is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand.

May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.

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.

The fault finder will find faults even in paradise and thereby miss the joys that recognition of the positives bring.

The only paradise is paradise lost.

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.

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