Quotes About Paradise

if you don't keep the eyes of your heart focused on the paradise that is to come, you will try to turn this poor fallen world into the paradise it will never

Live in hope because paradise is surely coming, and stop asking this fallen world to be the paradise it will never be.

And Scripture is clear—this is not paradise, and it won't be. Rather, this moment is a time of preparation for the paradise that is to come, where everything that sin has broken will be fully restored to what God originally intended it to be.

Here's the real-life, street-level issue: if you don't keep the eyes of your heart focused on the paradise that is to come, you will try to turn this poor fallen world into the paradise it will never be.

he said "Miami" left the impression of Sodom-by-the-Sea.

Donc, allez, vagabonds sans trêves, Errez, funestes et maudits, Le long des gouffres et des grèves, Sous l'œil fermé des paradis !

Ernest once told me that the word paradise was a Persian words that meant walled garden. I knew then that he understood how necessary the promises we made to each other were to our happiness. You couldn't have real freedom unless you knew were the walls were and tended to them. We could lean on the walls because they existed; they existed because we leaned on them.

rnest once told me that the word paradise was a Persian word that meant "walled garden." I knew then that he understood how necessary the promises we made to each other were to our happiness. You couldn't have real freedom unless you knew where the walls were and tended them. We could lean on the walls because they existed; they existed because we leaned on them.

Most of all the feared the God of Darkness, the evil spirit Nakka, who barred their way to paradise after death.

Lost Angel of a ruined Paradise!

Paradise spread forth beyond the shadowy grave

You lived in the present, but that present always contained a past, some image of a ruined paradise.

O what their joy and their glory must be,Those endless sabbaths the blessed ones see!

And the point? This is the point. Paradise lives in our heads so it can be anywhere and with anyone.

If the garden story comes after the seventh day when "everything is good," how does one account for an evil talking snake, the need for a wall around the garden, two ignorant naked people that don't know Good from evil, and this statement from God, "it's not good that the man [the adam] is alone"? How can "it" be "not good," if God has already declared everything good and finished?

And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.

So He drove out the man and stationed cherubim on the east side of the Garden of Eden, along with a whirling sword of flame to guard the way to the tree of life.

And Jesus said to him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.”

was caught up to Paradise. The things he heard were too sacred for words, things that man is not permitted to tell.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to eat from the tree of life in the Paradise of God.