“He who has not been at a tavern knows not what a paradise it is. O holy tavern! O miraculous tavern! - holy, because no carking cares are there, nor weariness, nor pain; and miraculous, because of the spits, which themselves turn round and round!” KnowsCarePainTurnsHolyRoundsParadiseMiraculousSpitWearinessInnsTaverns Author:Pietro Aretino
“O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works, creature in whom excelled Whatever can to sight or thought be formed, Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet! How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost, Defaced, deflow'red, and now to death devote? Paradise Lost” ArtLastsLostCreationDivineSweetHolyCreaturesRedSightParadiseAmiableParadise Lost Book 9 Author:John Milton
“The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.” MenShouldEndsCitiesYouthHolyBibleEvery ManKingdomsSymbolsParadiseEverlasting Author:Novalis
“The Lord has given the Holy Spirit upon the earth, and in whomsoever He dwells, that one feels paradise within himself. You might say: why hasn't this happened to me? Because you have not given yourself over to the will of God, but you live according to yourself. Look at the one who loves his own will. He never has peace in himself and is always displeased with something. But whoever has given himself over to God's will perfectly has pure prayer. His soul loves the Lord, and everything is acceptable and good to him.” InspirationalFeelsLooksSoulMightEarthChristianSpiritGivenReligiousPrayerLordHappenedHolyPureGods WillHoly SpiritParadiseOrthodoxAcceptable Author:Silouan the Athonite
“I remembered my days and nights of sunshine and starshine, where life was all a wild sweet wonder, a spiritual paradise of unselfish adventure and ethical romance. And I saw before me, ever blazing and burning, the Holy Grail.” LifeSpiritualRomanceNightWonderSawsAdventureSweetHolyBurningRememberedParadiseSunshineEthicalDay And NightUnselfishBlazingHoly Grail Book:Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)
“Through the Holy Spirit comes our restoration to paradise, our ascension into the kingdom of heaven, our return to the adoption of sons, our liberty to call God our Father, our being made partakers of the grace of Christ, our being called children of light, our sharing in eternal glory, and, in a word, our being brought into a state of all "fulness of blessing," both in this world and in the world to come, of all the good gifts that are in store for us, by promise hereof, through faith, beholding the reflection of their grace as though they were already present, we await the full enjoyment.” WorldChildrenMadeStatesLightSpiritFatherHeavenChristLibertyGraceThis WorldSonReturnHolyPromiseBlessingEternalGloryReflectionStoresKingdomsHoly SpiritEnjoymentParadiseAdoptionOur FatherRestorationKingdom Of HeavenAscension Author:Saint Basil
“And just for a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological time into timeless shadows, and wonderment in the bleakness of the mortal realm, and the sensation of death kicking at my heels to move on, wiht a phantom dogging its own heels, and myself hurrying to a plank where all the angels dove off and flew into the holy void of uncreated emptiness, the potent and inconceivable radiancies shining in bright Mind Essence, innumerable lotus-lands falling open in the magic mothswarm of heaven. - Sal Paradise” MindMomentsWantedMovingFallHeavenStepsMagicLandHolyAngelShadowEssenceShiningMortalsRealmsParadiseEmptinessSensationsEcstasyVoidHeelsTimelessFlewKickingDovePhantomsHurryingLotusesBleakness Author:Jack Kerouac
“For paradise we long. For perfection we were made...This longing is the source of the hunger and dissatisfaction that mark our lives...This longing makes our loves and friendships possible, and so very unsatisfactory. The hunger is for...nothing less than perfect communion with the...one in whom all the fragments of our scattered existence come together...we must not stifle this longing. It is a holy dissatisfaction. Such dissatisfaction is not a sickness to be healed, but the seed of a promise to be fulfilled...The only death to fear is the death of settling for something less.” LongMadeTogetherPerfectExistenceOur LivesSourceHolyPromisePerfectionMarkLongingHungerSeedsSettlingParadiseSicknessFulfilledCommunionOur LoveFragmentsHealedDissatisfactionLove And Friendship Author:Richard John Neuhaus
“And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.” ShouldEyeHeardCryHairHolyRoundsCirclesDrunkParadiseFedsHoneyMilkDreadFloatingDewThrice Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge