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“When the Son on the Cross promises paradise in his company to the good thief, when he promises the future feast in Heaven to the Apostles, when he speaks of the kingdom of the Father, he is always pointing toward eternity. However brief and close to the earth his words sound, they echo throughout infinite eternity and permeate the faith of his followers with their eternal content. He knows what he speaks of, what he brings with him and what he promises; and he can convey it to those who know it not. The very words he uses are designed to awaken in them a new sense: the sense of the eternal.”

Knows Use Earth Father Speak Heaven Sound Company Son Promise Eternal Crosses Eternity Infinite Kingdoms Paradise Followers Thieves Echoes Pointing Apostles

Author:Adrienne von Speyr

“Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their transmortal El Dorado. Sancho Panza will not quit his chimney-corner, but under promise of imaginary islands to govern.”

Body Religion Bits Promise Possession Corners Quitting Islands Paradise Imaginary Cheese Tempted Chimneys

Book:Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

“The thing about Buddhism is that it stresses attainment of something ineffable, that is where it differs from other religions in that it's more correct. We live in a world with promises of paradise.”

World Buddhism Promise Stress Buddhist Paradise Attainment Cosmology Ineffable

Author:Frederick Lenz

“THE COMPUTER IS JUST AN INSTRUMENT for doing faster what we already know how to do slower. All pretensions to computer intelligence and paradise-tomorrow promises should be toned down before the public turns away in disgust. And if that should happen, our civilization might not survive.”

Ifs Knows Should Might Happens Science Turns Know How Tomorrow Promise Civilization Computer Mathematics Instruments Faster Paradise Disgusting Pretension

Book:Discrete Thoughts: Essays on Mathematics, Science and Philosophy

Source: Discrete Thoughts: Essays on Mathematics, Science and Philosophy

“When God's children pass under the shadow of the cross of Calvary, they know that through that shadow lies their passage to the great white throne. For them Gethsemane is as paradise. God fills it with sacred presences; its solemn silence is broken by the music of tender promises, its awful darkness softened and brightened by the sunlight of Heavenly faces and the music of angel wings.”

“Entranced by promises of a material paradise of limitless luxury, humanity has too long ignored the mismatch between the imperatives of our existence as living beings on a finite planet and the imperatives of the institutions of money that chart our path to the future. Created to build colonial empires in service to kings, global corporations are ill suited to the task of building just, sustainable, and compassionate civil societies that nurture sufficiency, partnership, and respect for the whole of life.”

“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.”

“Did you know that Allah promises you a seat in Paradise if you kill a Christian?”

Ifs Knows Christian Promise Paradise Seats Did You Know

Author:Quentin Crisp

“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.”

Years Children Has Beens Born Promise Fortunate Paradise Eighty Walt

Book:Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West

Source: Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West

“It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.”

Literature Promise Taste Dignity Curiosity Curious Paradise Civilized Creeds

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“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.”

“Walk with care in dark places, and do not put your faith in anyone who promises you the forgiveness of the Lord or a certain place in Paradise.”

Care Certain Dark Walks Lord Promise Paradise Dark Places

Author:Clive Barker

“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.”

Made Real Wall Promise Understood Garden Paradise Persian Real Freedom

Author:Paula McLain