#paradise

If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#nice #paradise #promise #will #you

God comes first. Paradise is not cheap. ↗

— Hakeem Olajuwon

#comes #first #god #paradise

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell. ↗

— Karl Popper

#earth #hell #never #paradise #produced

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies. ↗

— George Santayana

#oxford #paradise #philosophies

Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#heaven #heir #holiness #holy #made

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) ↗

— Anonymous

#charles-dickens #ever-after #everlasting-life #faith #paradise

Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise. ↗

— George William Russell

#between #hell #how #lies #pain

My will and my desire were turned by love, the love that moves the sun and the other stars.' Dante was trying to explain faith, I think, as an overpowering love, and maybe it's blasphemous, but that's how I think of the way that I love you. You came into my life and suddenly I had one truth to hold on to-that I loved you, and you loved me. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#dantes-paradise #desire #love #stars #sun

Only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable; add faith; Add virtue, patience, temperance; add love, By name to come called charity, the soul Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise; but shalt possess A paradise within thee, happier far. ↗

— John Milton

#paradise #faith

The morgue is the Mullah's mint: Why hang on to life in this world when our guardians are discounting the price of life and selling martyr's tickets to paradise? ↗

— Amir Khalil

#life