#paradise

This horror will grow mild, this darkness light. ↗

— John Milton

#horror

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. ↗

— John Berry

#does #grasp #hand #only #paradise

We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose." "Is that a lie?" "It's what we tell fools and children." She sighed. "Postulating a heaven gives man an out for having been unable to retain the paradise he was given here on earth. ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

#heaven #paradise #environmentalism

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

Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#been #before #born #child #delivered

For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded. ↗

— Howard K. Smith

#anywhere #cable #disregarded #italian #lightly

Move to California. Malibu is paradise. ↗

— David Geffen

#malibu #move #paradise

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