Way To Paradise Quotes

#1. The Cross is the way to Paradise, but only when it is borne willingly.

Paul Of The Cross

#2. Throughout the Middle Ages, art and architecture had a spiritual mission: to direct man's attention toward God. Churches soared in that direction, and sculpture and paintings pointed the way to paradise. They depicted the sufferings of Christ, the Apostles, martyrs, the Last Judgment, and so on.

Jesse Bryant Wilder

#3. The way to paradise is an uphill climb whereas hell is downhill. Hence, there is a struggle to get to paradise and not to hell.

Al-Ghazali

#4. Pity that the only way to paradise is in a hearse.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#5. The easiest way to enter paradise is to make an early morning walk in a forest!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.

Alain Badiou

#7. When a man dies, his wife is burned alive with him, but if the wife dies before her husband, the man does not suffer the same fate. If a man dies before marriage, he is given a posthumous wife. The women passionately want to be burned because they believe they will enter paradise.

Mas'udi

#8. Another day in paradise' was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.

Abraham Verghese

#9. Cheese for dessert is rather like Paradise Lost in that everyone thinks he ought to like it, but still you don't notice too many people actually curling up with it.

Peg Bracken

#10. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of impatience that they do not return.

Franz Kafka

#11. Love
for us
is no paradise of arbors
to us
love tells us, humming,
that the stalled motor
of the heart
has started to work
again.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

#12. The loves that meet in Paradise shall cast out fear, And Paradise hath room for you and me and all.

Christina Rossetti

#13. We're - we're going to Paradise now?" said Constant. "I - I'm going to get into Paradise?"
"Don't ask me why, old sport," said Stony, "but somebody up there likes you.

Kurt Vonnegut

#14. All paradises have gates," Falchi said. "You'd wonder why God made Paradise with an exit if he didn't anticipate having to use it eventually.

Aleksandr Voinov

#15. Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.

D.H. Lawrence

#16. We could either develop paradise on Earth or oblivion; wipe ourselves out, only the future will tell. It's what you do to make the future.

Jacque Fresco

#17. Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. Your souls are precious and can only be equal to the price of Paradise, therefore sell them only at that price

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

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

Alphonsus Liguori

#20. When I read 'Paradise Lost,' or 'Richard III,' it is clear that Milton and Shakespeare took real pleasure and satisfaction from creating these epitomes of evil.

Marilynne Robinson

#21. The church has been planted as a paradise in this world.

Irenaeus Of Lyons

#22. It seemed altogether right to him that they would drive through the small village of Paradise. It would be hard to find someone less demanding of life than Brown Dog and his current position was beyond his most strenuous ambitions.

Jim Harrison

#23. Well, the moral of the story, The moral of this song, Is simply that one should never be Where one does not belong. So when you see your neighbor carryin' somethin', Help him with his load, And don't go mistaking Paradise For that home across the road.

Bob Dylan

#24. But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#25. 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 the suspension of the usual order and the failure of most systems, we are free to live and act another way.

Rebecca Solnit

#26. Paradise is at your own center; unless you find it there, there is no way to enter.

Angelus Silesius

#27. Spices were certainly regarded as antidotes to earthly squalor in another, more mystical sense. They were thought to be splinters of paradise that had found their way into the ordinary world.

Tom Standage

#28. All would wish to be saved and to enjoy the glory of paradise; but to gain heaven, it is necessary to walk in the straight road that leads to eternal bliss. This road is the observance of the divine commandments. Hence, in his preaching, the Baptist exclaimed: Make straight the way of the Lord.

Alphonsus Liguori

#29. Once for all beloved children, the surest, easiest, shortest way is by the Eucharist. It is so easy to approach the holy table, and there we taste the joys of Paradise

Pope Pius X

#30. Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH ...

Jack Kerouac

#31. A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold,
And pavement stars - as starts to thee appear
Soon in the galaxy, that milky way
Which mightly as a circling zone thou seest
Powder'd wiht stars.

John Milton

#32. Falling in love doesn't always lead to heartbreak, honey. With the right man, it can be a one-way ticket to paradise.

Catherine Anderson

#33. If people volunteered in the same way to construct schools or roads or even clear the river of plastic wrappers, by God, Pakistan would become a paradise within a year.

Malala Yousafzai

#34. In our first paradise in Eden there was a way to go out but no way to go in again. But as for the heavenly paradise, there is a way to go in, but not way to go out.

Richard Baxter

#35. Millions today want salvation, but on their own terms. They want to come their own way, and so we have hundreds of schemes and plans devised by men to regain paradise.

Billy Graham

#36. Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

Adolf Hitler

#37. If I had a dream or a goal ... then maybe I would be able to overcome the obstacles in my way.

Paradise Kiss

#38. It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road.

Michael Connelly

#39. In a good-natured way he had almost decided that Princeton was one part deadly Philistines and one part deadly grinds, and to find a person who could mention Keats without stammering, yet evidently washed his hands, was rather a treat.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#40. I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise.

Booker T. Washington

#41. Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.

Padgett Powell

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

Dan Brown

#43. To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.

Charles Godfrey Leland

#44. If voting changed anything... I'd still laugh!

Matt Paradise

#45. The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.

William Ralph Inge

#46. He is like a forbidden fruit, attracting everyone around him into the paradise of pleasure. I know the consequences of trying this fruit, but still, I am tempted to take the risk.

Samreen Ahsan

#47. Pandora's Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden.

Selena Kitt

#48. THE COMPUTER IS JUST AN INSTRUMENT for doing faster what we already know how to do slower. All pretensions to computer intelligence and paradise-tomorrow promises should be toned down before the public turns away in disgust. And if that should happen, our civilization might not survive.

Gian-Carlo Rota

#49. How about your favorite book?" "This Side of Paradise by From. Scott Fitzgerald." "Why?" "Because it was the last one I read.

Anonymous

#50. You of all people would know people who commit suicide... can't go to the paradise of the stars. Even if you did commit a horrible crime... you have to live! You can't just give up and die! You have to live and atone for your wrongs!

Noriko Ogiwara

#51. Why do we complain about the Fall? It is not on its account that we were expelled from Paradise, but on account of the Tree of Life, lest we might eat of it.

Franz Kafka

#52. For me, Iran was paradise, and I believe it's a paradise still, but only if you don't have political problems. If you have a political problem, paradise turns into hell.

Golshifteh Farahani

#53. There is only this world and that numbing routines and brief squabbles and financial worries are an essential part of it, that in spite of the aches and boredomes and disappointments, living in this world is the closest we will ever come to seeing paradise.

Paul Auster

#54. Nowhere in the world do supporters love their clubs more than in England. England is paradise to play in.

Arjen Robben

#55. The Titanic was in more senses than one a fool's paradise. There is nothing that man can build that nature cannot destroy, and far as he may advance in might and knowledge and cunning, her blind strength will always be more than his match.

Filson Young

#56. Anywhere is paradise; it's up to you.

Unknown

#57. To him who overcomes, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.

Lysa TerKeurst

#58. The dumplings had the flavor of paradise, and the broth spread through my veins like a secret that's fun to keep.

Lemony Snicket

#59. You're my paradise for now." ~Gage

Shanora Williams

#60. It is better to be as low as hell with a promise, than in Paradise without one.

John Flavel

#61. Well, it's not far down to paradise, at least it's not for me
And if the wind is right you can sail away and find tranquility ...

Christopher Cross

#62. Constant idleness should be included in the tortures of hell, but it is, on the contrary, considered to be one of the joys of paradise.

Leo Tolstoy

#63. It's a blessing to be paid to be in paradise. The Hawaiian people are so friendly.

Rebecca Mader

#64. Michael had once read to her how God had cast a man and woman out of paradise. Yet, for all their human faults and failures. God had shown them the way back in.

Francine Rivers

#65. Life. This morning the sun made me adore it. It had, behind the dripping pine trees, the oriental brightness, orange and crimson, of a living being, a rose and an apple, in the physical and ideal fusion of a true and daily paradise.

Juan Ramon Jimenez

#66. Paradise is being able to say at that (second before our death) moment: I made some mistakes, but I wasn't a coward. I lived life and did what I had to do.

Paulo Coelho

#67. She expressed an opinion that the happiness of a woman in Paradise is beneath the soles of her husband's feet,' he enlightened humorously, seemingly not at all averse to her obvious desire to be comforted.

Margaret Rome

#68. Thus he became one with a life in its pure state, he rediscovered a paradise given only to the most private or the most intelligent animals. At the point where the mind denies the mind, he touched his truth and with it his extreme glory, his extreme love.

Albert Camus

#69. So he left the lagoon and entered the jungle again, within a few days was completely lost, following the lagoons southward through the increasing rain and heat, attacked by alligators and giant bats, a second Adam searching for the forgotten paradises of the reborn Sun.

J.G. Ballard

#70. The imperfect is our paradise. Note that, in this bitterness, delight, Since the imperfect is so hot in us,

Robert Bly

#71. Thanksgiving is every day because in this physical body you can spring into eternal paradise.

Roger Delano Hinkins

#72. The only difference between the Adamic man and the man of today is that the one was born to Paradise and the other has to create it.

Henry Miller

#73. What you see at the Field Museum is only like, 10 percent of the collection. It's birds of paradise and passenger pigeons and in all these drawers that pull out, these specimens come out and it's spectacular. And it worked out.

Andrew Bird

#74. I count it as a certainty that in paradise, everyone naps.

Tom Hodgkinson

#75. No need to be sentimental to mourn the loss of Paradise.

Mason Cooley

#76. In fool's paradise, nothing goes right.

Balan Gothandaraman

#77. Was Lucifer a demon determined to ruin Eve and spawn a species of monsters? Or was he a fallen angel so in love with a human woman he destroyed paradise for a kiss? We will never know. And perhaps we shouldn't ask why Lucifer tempted Eve at all, but another question: Why did she give in?

Sylvia Frost

#78. We have the technology to build a global paradise on earth, and at the same time, we have the power to end life as we know it. I am a futurist. I cannot predict the actual future - only what it can be if we manage the earth and its resources intelligently.

Jacque Fresco

#79. You can stand back and look at this planet and see that we have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love, and the community to produce a kind of human paradise.

Terence McKenna

#80. In the world of art, all things are possible.
George from Paradise Kiss

Ai Yazawa

#81. She wanted to be someone's muse - to be worshipped and adored, body and soul. She wanted to play Beatrice to a dashing and noble Dante and to inhabit Paradise with him forever. And to live a life that would rival the beauty of Botticelli's illustrations.

Sylvain Reynard

#82. ...And maybe one day you will wake up as an infant in a completely different universe, and your entire life thus far was just one big dream.

Criss Jami