Quotes about Paradise

We do not know we are full of paradise because we are so full of our own noise that we cannot hear God singing us and all things into being.

only God's truth without limit, without defect, without stain. This clean light, which tastes of Paradise, is beyond all pride, beyond comment, beyond proprietorship, beyond solitude. It is in all and for all. It is the true light that shines in everyone, in every man coming into this world. It is the light of Christ, Who stands in the midst of us and we know Him not.

The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

A heaven on earth.

Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand.

All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in. [Conversation with Elizabeth Farnsworth, PBS NewsHour , March 9, 1998]

I told you again that you were the reason Adam ate the apple and its core. That when he left Eden, he left a rich man. Not only did he have Eve, but he had the taste of the first apple in the world in his mouth for the rest of his life.

Now they will rest before shouldering the endless work they were created to do down here in paradise.

Milton's Paradise is quite available these days, if not in fact certainly as ordinary, unexceptionable desire.

Other than outwitting evil, waging war against the unworthy, there seems to be nothing for the inhabitants of paradise to do.

So far as we have any information about man, we know that he has always and everywhere been under the influence of dominating ideas. Any one who alleges that he is not can immediately be suspected of having exchanged a known form of belief for a variant which is less known both to himself and to others. Instead of theism he is a devotee of atheism, instead of Dionysus he favours the more modern Mithras, and instead of heaven he seeks paradise on earth.

I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks.