#paradise

That’s the first thing that strikes an American woman about Europe – that it’s unsanitary. Impossible for them to conceive of a paradise without modern plumbing. If they find a bedbug they want to write a letter immediately to the chamber of commerce. ↗

— Henry Miller

#humor #life #paradise #life

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 are there with us, along with the angels and archangels. Why then should we not pray for and with them? The reason the Reformers and their successors did their best to outlaw praying for the dead was because that had been so bound up with the notion of purgatory and the need to get people out of it as soon as possible. Once we rule out purgatory, I see no reason why we should not pray for and with the dead and every reason why we should - not that they will get out of purgatory but that they will be refreshed and filled with God's joy and peace. Love passes into prayer; we still love them; why not hold them, in that love, before God? ↗

— N.T. Wright

#communion-of-saints #paradise #prayer #praying-for-the-dead #purgatory

Its ghetto paradise for some and hell on earth for others! ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#ghetto #hell-on-earth #paradise #tribulation #love

Love will weaken n ground u if u take 4 granted it's purity n song ↗

— Ellie Williams

#abrokenparadise #elliewilliams #teamelbombz #thiswaytoparadise #love

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

— Laurie Anderson

#exactly #like #much #now #only

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise. ↗

— Tommy Douglas

#bird #could #earth #fish #fly

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#always #i #imagined #kind #library

When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#gone #government #governments #interests #other

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#discontent #dogs #evil #jealousy #know

For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#big #big government #canada #cost #government