God In Paradise Lost Quotes

#1. Terrorism gravely threatens international peace and security, and as a solution, the power and apparent finality of force are seductive.

Charles Kennedy

#2. Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity.

Thomas Browne

#3. Surely, sport is not fundamentally about the safety of athletes. If it were, we'd probably have to ban professional football, right after boxing.

Alice Dreger

#4. Sign outside a country shop: We buy junk and sell antiques.

Dave Barry

#5. What in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support,
That to the height of this great argument
I may assert eternal Providence,
And justify the ways of God to men. 1
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22.

John Milton

#6. God created man for fellowship ... The fall of man ruined that and Paradise that is, the garden of Eden was lost, but on the new earth paradise will be regained and God will again fellowship with mankind in a unique sense.

Paul P. Enns

#7. Such a small impact on the world, yet the very centre of my own.

Clare Mackintosh

#8. Like Adam, we have all lost Paradise; and yet we carry Paradise around inside of us in the form of a longing for, almost a memory of, a blessedness that is no more, or the dream of a blessedness that may someday be again.

Frederick Buechner

#9. A virtuous failure is better than a successful devil.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#10. Things work out; it isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#11. You are the doorway to the infinite.

Adyashanti

#12. How many times do you have to get hit over the head until you figure out who's hitting you.

Harry Truman

#13. Every day is a fresh start; don't measure yourself by yesterday's troubles.

Dagny Scott Barrios

#14. Human excellence, parted from God, is like a fable flower, which, according to Rabbis, Eve plucked when passing out of paradise
severed from its native root, it is only the touching memorial of a lost Eden; sad, while charming
beautiful, but dead.

Charles Villiers Stanford

#15. O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works, creature in whom excelled Whatever can to sight or thought be formed, Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet! How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost, Defaced, deflow'red, and now to death devote? Paradise Lost

John Milton

#16. The most dangerous mistake that our souls are capable of, is, to take the creature for God, and earth for heaven (374).

Richard Baxter

#17. God is thy law, thou mine.

John Milton

#18. God gave our first parents the food He designed that the race should eat. It was contrary to His plan to have the life of any creature taken. There was to be no death in Eden. The fruit of the trees in the garden was the food man's wants required.

Ellen G. White