Pastoral Resources

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

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

The only paradise is paradise lost.

I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

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

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

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.

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

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.

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.

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.