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.

I walked slowly to enjoy this freedom, and when I came out of the mountains, I saw the sky over the prairie, and I thought that if heaven was real, I hoped it was a...

Paradise will be a kind of library

I don’t judge these things by numbers. How many people read ‘Paradise Lost’ when it was published? Two hundred? Three? As long as there’s one reader, the book is doing what a book does. Books...

I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.(John 11:25-26)

God did not give us the gospel to convince humanity; the gospel was given to us to master the language of a new world called God’s Paradise. John 15:16.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now… only much, much better.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.

I mean only that I hope they find darkness or paradise without fear of it, if they can.

jungle” as our warriors meet and join the battle drum that calls for unity in the struggle for breaking the chains of modern slavery—like the butterflies flying the skies and the birds over the seas,...

Do what they will, then, we remain conscious of a desire which no natural happiness will satisfy. But is there any reason to suppose that reality offers any satisfaction to it? “Nor does the being...

A glimpseof my feathers.Show too much and they’ll tear you apartBird of ParadiseBorn in the trenchesFacing the mouth of a gun.

Since both the departed saints and we ourselves are in Christ, we share with them in the ‘communion of saints.’ They are still our brothers and sisters in Christ. When we celebrate the Eucharist they...

Congratulations. You should paint those visions of paradise rather than just talking about them.I’ll begin with you.

A’isha asked him: ‘Does one come to Paradise only by the mercy of Allah?’ He repeated three times over: ‘No one comes to Paradise except by the mercy of Allah!’ ‘Not even you. Messenger of...

The time you spend with God is an everlasting investment in Paradise.

Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.

A fool’s paradise is a wise man’s hell.

You may lose paradise, but gain heaven when you rise up and repent. The success that comes after a temporal failure is an amazing spectacular!

The earth is neither fabulous nor paradisal. And therefore it is not hell.

A worshipper perceives that he is near to God because he is awake all night worshipping God. But after worship, your prayers are for health, long life, wealth, and for the damsels and slaves of...

Forerun thy peers, thy time, and letThy feet, millenniums hence, be set In midst of knowledge, dream’d not yet.

Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you...

I will survive: if the hell rejects me, there is always the paradise.

Pandora’s Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden.

Indeed, for the righteous is attainment – Gardens and grapevines And full-breasted [companions] of equal age And a full cup. No ill speech will they hear therein or any falsehood – [As] reward from your...

If supernatural life in God’s paradise is more important than natural life on earth, then the day you received Jesus Christ is more important than the day you were naturally born. Jon 3:6

Maybe it takes tragedy to create paradise.

Heaven is spectacular, some would say paradise. A magnificent city surrounded by walls of gold and rainbow paths all dazzling in Gods light. There is no fear in Heaven, nor is there pain, and most...

Your library is your paradise.

A woman who has found her match with respect to depth of soul and who has quenched her thirst with her children is no different than the women of Paradise, and the home structured around...

[Über das Paradies:] Die fünf Bücher Mose, die Genesis und der Koran beschäftigen sich eingehend mit dieser hysterischen Geographie. Die muslimische Variante ist jedoch am gelungensten und lohnt wirklich die Lektüre: Bäche, Gärten, Flüsse, Quellen,...

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

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.

In particular, we must take account of the well-known and striking saying of Jesus to the dying brigand beside him, recorded by Luke (23.43). ‘Today,’ he said, ‘you will be with me in paradise.’ ‘Paradise’...

Do Re MiCalifornia is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see,But believe it or not, you won’t find it so hotIf you ain’t got the do re mi

It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. – Bertrand Zobrist