Quotes about Paradise
Satan, with vast and haughty strides advanc'd,Came tow'ring, arm'd in adamant, and gold.Parad. Lost.
— Samuel Johnson
He ended, and his words impression leftOf much amazement to th' infernal crew,Distracted and surpris'd with deep dismayAt these sad tidings.Milton'sParadise Regained,b. i.3.
— Samuel Johnson
Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?
— John Milton
It's not a great song unless it makes your DNA remember Eden and your spirit long for Home.
— Mark Lowry
To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
— Anonymous
Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination.
— Elbert Hubbard
Perhaps, after all, Susy reflected, it was the world she was meant for, since the other, the brief Paradise of her dreams, had already shut its golden doors upon her.
— Edith Wharton
Even innocent Adam is liker to forget God in a paradise, than Joseph in a prison, or Job upon a dunghill(376)[.]
— Richard Baxter
In Eden, worship was not an event to attend, but a perpetual attitude.
— Rick Warren
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.
— Milan Kundera
When you give bread to a beggar we give him that taste of paradise which only the poor can savor.
— Elie Wiesel
Yes, man is stronger, greater than God. When Adam and Eve deceived You, You chased them from paradise. When You were displeased by Noah's generation, You brought down the Flood. When Sodom lost Your favor, You caused the heavens to rain down fire and damnation. But look at these men whom You have betrayed, allowing them to be tortured, slaughtered, gassed, and burned, what do they do? They pray before You! They praise Your name!
— Elie Wiesel