Quotes about Paradise
Paradise on my right, Hell on my left, and the Angel of Death behind.
- Frank Herbert
We came from Caladan - a paradise world for our form of life. There existed no need on Caladan to build a physical paradise or a paradise of the mind - we could see the actuality all around us. And the price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life - we went soft, we lost our edge.
- Frank Herbert
One of the things I love about our source text as Christians, the Bible, is that it teaches us not to avoid conflict. And it teaches us that before the fall of man, in Paradise, there was conflict. God wants conflict to be a part of your life.
- Donald Miller
Satan, with vast and haughty strides advanc'd,Came tow'ring, arm'd in adamant, and gold.Parad. Lost.
- Samuel Johnson
He ended, and his words impression leftOf much amazement to th' infernal crew,Distracted and surpris'd with deep dismayAt these sad tidings.Milton'sParadise Regained,b. i.3.
- Samuel Johnson
Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?
- John Milton
It's not a great song unless it makes your DNA remember Eden and your spirit long for Home.
- Mark Lowry
To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
- Anonymous
Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination.
- Elbert Hubbard
Perhaps, after all, Susy reflected, it was the world she was meant for, since the other, the brief Paradise of her dreams, had already shut its golden doors upon her.
- Edith Wharton
Even innocent Adam is liker to forget God in a paradise, than Joseph in a prison, or Job upon a dunghill(376)[.]
- Richard Baxter
In Eden, worship was not an event to attend, but a perpetual attitude.
- Rick Warren