Quotes about Paradise

But of the tree whose operation brings Knowledge of good and ill, which I have set The pledge of thy obedience and thy faith, Amid the garden by the tree of life, Remember what I warn thee. Shun to taste. And shun the bitter consequence. For know, The day thou eatest thereof, my sole command Transgressed, inevitably thou shalt die, From that day mortal; and this happy state Shalt lose, expelled from hence into a world Of woe and sorrow.

If you point to paradise, all the shortsighted will see is your finger.

Sinatra's idea of paradise is a place where there are plenty of women and no newspapermen. He doesn't know it, but he'd be better off if it were the other way around.

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

Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.

The heart of man is, so to speak, the paradise of God.

The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bliss be more delightful for them.

Christ was born of a virgin, that we might be born of God. He took our flesh, that He might give us His Spirit. He lay in the manger that we might lie in paradise. He came down from heaven, that He might bring us to heaven. And what was all this but love? If our hearts be not rocks, this love of Christ should affect us. Behold, love that surpasses knowledge!

Easter will soon be here. Life breaks into beauty again and we realize that man may bring hell itself into the world, but that Nature ever patiently waits to be his natural paradise.

And the child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, 'You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise.

If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.

God gave men and women work to do in the Garden before the Fall.