The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only...

If you lose God’s paradise in Heaven, then you never existed.

I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)

The possibility of paradise hovers on the cusp of coming into being, so much so that it takes powerful forces to keep such a paradise at bay. If paradise now arises in hell, it’s because...

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

Us atheist people, we believe we have to act properly and honestly for a moral principle and not because we expect an award in Paradise.

Eena, when you’re ready to talk about it, I’ll be here. That’s what best friends are for.”She let the tears fall. He’d never know they were for him. He’d think they were because of Derian....

No one shall expel us from the paradise which Cantor has created for us.{Expressing the importance of Georg Cantor’s set theory in the development of mathematics.}

Deeply immersed in a constant bubble bath of sin, you cannot communicate with Jesus Christ unless you are ready to get out of the bath. John 1:9

In monasteries, seminaries, retreats and synagogues, they fear hell and seek paradise. Those who know the mysteries of God never let that seed be planted in their souls.

And where do you think you are?

God’s command to have dominion over every living thing is a call to service, a test of responsibility, a rule of love, a cooperation with nature, whereas Satan’s use of force for the sake of...

At the gates of Heaven, if you had the chance to plead your case before Jesus, what will you say? Say nothing because your words cannot save you. John 3:16

We took the liberty to make some enquiries concerning the ground of their pretensions to make war upon nations who had done them no injury, and observed that we considered all mankind as our friends...

This is a paradise of rising to the occasion that points out by contrast how the rest of the time most of us fall down from the heights of possibility, down into diminished selves and...

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

When I am a good host, I can order the world precisely as I believe it ought to be. It is a world that I have created in my mind and in my own image,...

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Whoever treads a path seeking knowledge, Allah will make easy for him the path to Paradise.”(reported by Ibn Majah and others, fulfilling the conditions of Imam al Bukhari and Imam Muslim)

We must carefully examine our relationship with Jesus Christ before we make any attempts to introduce him to strangers. Matthew 7:21-23

A book of verses underneath the boughA flask of wine, a loaf of bread and thouBeside me singing in the wildernessAnd wilderness is paradise now.

night.” Between them was evening and morning—the First Day. This division marked the end of peace in the universe. Everything has been pretty much fucked up since then.

Ni rahisi kushinda vita ya maisha na kuishi mbinguni duniani. Ni vigumu kushinda vita ya dhambi na kuishi mbinguni paradiso.

All spiritual leaders who live in luxury cannot enter God’s Paradise in Heaven. Repent or Perish.

Why can’t these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women.It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious...

Could I but acquaint the world with Robert G. Ingersoll’s humanity, with his ideas and his sentiments of love, patience and understanding, a renascence would automatically take place that would give life and living on...

Feathers!” spluttered Sargatanas. “Feathers are for the birds, my boy. Flaking, peeling, scale-ridden wings, now that’s what real beings wear. I’ll tell you a secret.” He said, and drew me closer. “The eternal pain at...

He didn’t know if it was real, if freedom was something you could earn or win after a long, hard fight, or if it was just an illusion. But he decided it didn’t matter. Only...

wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.

Peace be upon you, for you have persevered! How excellent, then, this fulfilment in the hereafter!

When you become a Christian, you are not on earth to fight for Jesus; God needed only one battle to redeem the souls of humanity. It was the cross.

Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse – and ThouBeside me singing in the Wilderness -And Wilderness is Paradise enow.

she ran away in her sleep and dreamed of paradise

The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could...

God made salvation the most precious gift for humanity which is why only a few are chosen for God’s Paradise in heaven. Matthew 22:11-14

Your country is beautiful, a virtual paradise.” When will the people of Indonesia be as beautiful as their land, with a civilization and culture that contributes to the greater beauty of humankind and no longer...

Doom is nigh. I am in acute distress, desperately trying to coax sleep, opening my eyes every few seconds to check their faded gleam, and imagining paradise as a place where a sleepless neighbor reads...

Paradise Is The Absolute Self~Respect.

A dying man asked a dying man for eternal life; a man without possessions asked a poor man for a Kingdom; a thief at the door of death asked to die like a thief and...

Aging and the prospect of dying by no means enhance the attractiveness of fictitious comforts to come in paradise, or the veracity of malicious myths about hellfire and damnation. Fear and feeblemindedness cannot be credibly...

God hides the fires of hell within paradise.

The world is a prison for the believer and paradise for a non-believer.

God did not force Salvation on humanity; He made it a gift dependent on the free will of the recipient because He is not interested in numbers. Mega Churches are numbers. Matthew 7:13-14.

No ancient Jew was ever promised, or expected, a heavenly life. That was a wild and outrageous teaching of Jesus. Holy text never offers a heavenly hope–before Jesus. Think about it: No matter how faithful...

After moving his family from Yakima to Paradise, California, in 1958, he enrolled at Chico State College. There, he began an apprenticeship under the soon-to-be-famous John Gardner, the first “real writer” he had ever met....

Kessler depicts his developing intimacy with a handful of dairy goats and offers an enviable glimpse of the pastoral good life. Yet he also cautions, “Wherever the notion of paradise exists, so does the idea...

At some point paradise would be lost.

You want Paradise, you gotta build it on war, on blood, on envy and naked greed.

I”divides me from God.

I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.