May I remind the poor dreamers of any Paradise Regained that God completely failed with the creation of this world. Why would He be successful with the other one?
Paradise Quotes
This world is a prison for the Faithful, but a Paradise for unbelievers.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now – only much, much better
We used to think earthly life was horrible and paradise awaited us when we died. Now we have made earthly life into a paradise and we fear death. It can’t possibly be as good as life as we know it in America.
Paradise is open to all kind hearts.
The only paradise is paradise lost.
The best and sweetest flowers of Paradise God gives to his people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven, a key to let us in to Paradise.
Ideas of Paradise are exceedingly various. To the Ancients Paradise meant a dolce far niente in the Elysian fields…. The Scythians believed in a Paradise of immortal drunkenness and drinking blood out of the skulls of their enemies…. To some I believe Paradise means yachting, and for my own part, I think a 200 ton […]
When Man, expell’d from Eden’s bowers, A moment linger’d near the gate, Each scene recall’d the vanish’d hours, And bade him curse his future fate. But, wandering on through distant climes, He learnt to bear his load of grief; Just gave a sigh to other times, And found in busier scenes relief. Thus, lady! will […]
I believe that there is an ideal hovering over the earth, an ideal of that Paradise which is not the mere outcome of imagination, but the ultimate reality towards which all things are moving. I believe that this vision of Paradise is to be seen in the sunlight, and the green of the earth, in […]
