Paradise Quotes
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"A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell."
"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 never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home."
"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 hides the fires of hell within paradise."
"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."
"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)"
"wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good."
"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."
"Spread kindness, caring, and compassion and create your own paradise. Infuse it with joy and you’ve created heaven on earth."
"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 to get out of it."
"The paradise of prayers is like a palace full of precious things."
"I continuously see myself on an airplane that has unlimited fuel. I go here and there but can't stop. Always flying over my destination. I've come to realize I must jump off with my parachute on of course. That is how I'm viewing my life right now.Once I find that loophole than I've reached my destination to success."
"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 having known Paradise and lost it is priceless. I wouldn't swap it for anything."
"It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist"
"Do the thing you love to do. Hank Williams died at the ripe old age of twentynine. Stevie Ray Vaughan at thirty-five. Jesus at thirtythree. Don’t think you’re special and the Lord’s gonna bless you with time."
"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."
"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.)"
"Joni Mitchell had it right: "They paved paradise / and put up a parking lot." But perhaps, in the near future, we could add a line of hopeful epilogue to that song: then they tore down the parking lot / and raised up a paradise"
Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
"Good gods are scarce because the majority of gods are created by evil men"
"Why do religious believers hate unbelievers? The feel threatened by them, they feel besieged by them. Religions consider themselves as separate tribes in their own rights and feel like unbelievers will one day overrun their strongholds"
"Every word that comes after "And the Lord told me. . . “is a pious lie"
"Can really anybody put his hand on his heart and profess to know beyond doubt what happens on the other side of this life?"
"Some people are so stiff and inhumane as the dogma's they believe in"
"Give me something to worship whatever.” Cries the human soul"
"Spiritual leaders, priests and prophets are lamps burning in the dark, seeking meaning for humanity."
"Science cannot disprove god. Science studies the things that are. The eternal question is who or what made them to be"
"There is nothing behind the curtains of religions, people put there whatever their imaginations can fathom"
"Once you believe that god is not a private property of anybody, you are on your way to becoming a new messiah. Maybe your own if not the world's"
"Theology is like assuming that there is a black cat in a dark room where in fact there is no black cat, and endeavoring to study the cat's properties and how it may have evolved from its ancestors."
"The eyes of god are upon you, I mean the eyes of society. We are prisoners of societies in which we live"
"You take away my golden dreams and my visions of paradise, in its place you wake me up and hand me your reasons and facts and crude reality. You have ruined my life. If I commit murder or hang myself, let the god I used to pray to repay you in full."
"If you believe that God is good and that He loves you without regard to whom you are or what you do, you will worship Him wholeheartedly. You will praise him with thanksgiving. If you believe He is angry against you, you will come to him with fear and trying to appease his anger. And you don't know when His anger will be over. Such a god keeps you in a perpetual psychological anguish. That is the typical kind of god we usually worship. That is the typical god approved by authority."
"Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there are people in the world"
"God has not yet revealed himself to no one in no unclear terms. Religions are attempts to find him on that level they are all equal"
"What is needed is not that a religion be true, meaning that what it claims exist beyond the ink it is written with in a holy book. That is hard to prove. What is important is that a religion be a good system to help us mere mortal deal with our short and troubled life in the universe. Whether what we hope for in the afterlife materializes or not is not important, what is important is that we believe it will materialize and that gives us hope."
"Much terror in religion is not the will of god, it is created by power hungry clerics who thirst for absolute power and claim it for god. God does not seek power, he is already powerful."
"No one knows what god thinks of anything. He only knows and no one can claim to penetrate into his mysteries. Those who do that are liars and must be avoided at all costs"
"It's utter arrogance to think that we can know what god ought to be or do. If we don't understand we must continue our search or recognize our ignorance"
"All religions are "revealed" and "inspired". After all nothing happens without the "will" of god."
"If we believe that god is the creator of evil, maybe there is evil also in heaven, if that is the case, we are not out of the woods yet"
"Don't create unbelief or doubt in people's minds. When you do so you ruin their lives and you have nothing to give them in its place. It's ok if people delude themselves those delusions keep their day running."
"An atheist is a disappointed true believer he is an angry and hungry soul who has failed to find a real god to whom he can anchor his hope"
"All religions are man-made God has not yet revealed himself beyond doubt to anybody."
"When you have doubts about God, the right position to take is agnosticism, atheism is outright arrogance"
"The more time you invest into studying religion, the more likely you are to disbelieve in the gods"
"Religion is a theory about everything that needs to be proved only after death those who prove or disprove it never come back to us to tell the story"
"I believe only in one God, creator of everything that exists, visible and invisible, good and evil. I believe that he will ultimately save every soul and give it eternal life."
"We all want to become more than we are, we want to live forever, that is why we hate death and create the afterlife."
"All religions are guesswork"
"My gut instinct is that these heavens and hells exist nowhere else except in our hearts and minds"
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