Pastoral Resources

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

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

Paradise is too perfect for humanity.

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.

He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.

Paradise is open to all kind hearts.

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

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.

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

We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.

The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself.

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.